Welcome December! December Book-It is underway! The goal for this month is to read 7 books. Please encourage your child to read at home. I know the children can do it! I look forward to receiving the Book-It forms from your child by the end of the month. Please make sure to read the decodable readers I send home every week with your child. Encourage your child to read the short stories to you. These decodable readers are filled with high frequency words and spelling words we learn in class. This extra reinforcement will only help to improve your child's reading ability and help to make your child a more confident reader! Thank you for all your help at home. Please remind your child to bring his/her borrowed library book back by this Wednesday! Our Harcourt Reading series is underway and the children are working very hard. Please check your child's folder for the Home-Connection letter I send at the beginning of each new lesson every Monday. This week, we will begin Lesson 11. Children will take their Reading, Language Arts and Spelling tests this Friday. Lesson 11 Spelling words: or, for, form, more, store, sort, long, bring, your, head Lesson 11 High Frequency words: animals, cold, fish, from, their, under, very Lesson 11 Robust words: In Math, we are working on Chapter 5- Subtraction strategies to the number 12. Although we have completed our chapters on addition, please continue to review addition problems at home with your child. Any additional practice will only reinforce your child's computation skills. It is very important to read with your child every day. Please review the words cards I send home every week. This practice will only help to improve your child's reading ability. We read new poems and stories in Reading everyday. Ask your child to recall the titles of the stories and what the story was about. Ask questions about the story. Who were the characters? What was the story about? What are your feelings about the story? This will aid in their comprehension of the reading material. The single most important thing you can do is to read with your child on a daily basis.