December 7-11, 2009 This week we will: •Reading Unit 6/ Week 5 Question: How do people work together to build houses? •Read The House That Tony Lives In, Night Worker and House By The Sea. •Discuss how different people work together to build a house. •Discuss the importance of each person’s job and how it depends upon the next to complete each home. •Comprehension skill: setting •Assess each student on letter identification and letter sounds. •Assess for the ability to decode or sound out simple words. •Assess the ability to form sentences from random vocabulary words. •Assess each student for the ability to segment (break apart words). •Focus letter: Oo •Sight words: they •Identify ordinal numbers, i.e. first, second, third,... tenth. Notes from Mrs. Shelton: •This week and next, I will be assessing the students on many reading and math skills. Report cards will be issued after Christmas break. •I trust everyone got a letter from Kim Jones & Kristi Estes about the Christmas party. Thank you for the $5 to off-set costs of this event. I really appreciate it. •Our field trip is this Wednesday to the IMAX. Please be sure to send in a canned good so we can donate it to the food bank that day. •Several children have told me that their parents don’t want them to go outside to play. I am alone with the children during this time of day, and there is no where for them to stay. I take them outside if it's over 40 degrees. I encourage you to send them with mittens, a toboggan and a heavy coat. If your child is this sick, you may need to consider if they are well enought to be at a school or if you should be keeping them home. Thanks! Thought for the week: The magic of Christmas can only be seen through the eyes of a child.