10-10-19

Hello Wonderful Families,

It was so nice to sit down with you this week and talk about your student’s start to 1st grade. Below are some of the highlights from our short week. Let me know if you have any questions.

Reading Workshop:-Decoding Strategies: Stretchy Snake, Chunky Monkey-Read Aloud: Lulu and the Mysterious Mission-Small group reading**Book in a Bag—Be sure to have your child return these, and all its contents, on Monday.

Writing Workshop/Word Study:-Writing on lines-Leaving space between words-Capitalization/Punctuation-asking vs telling sentences

Math Workshop:-addition strategies-comparing numbers, greater than/less than-introduction to fact families

If you are looking for something to practice at home:-Prodigy-Have students practice subitizing (the rapid, accurate, and confident judgments of numbers performed for small numbers of items) with this site:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8U_zZ-rW1E

Content : -Wrapped up What Does a Scientist Do? -Pumpkin Investigations

Other:-Guidance lesson on learning from our mistakes

Related Arts next week:Monday- ArtTuesday- MusicWednesday- PEThursday- LibraryFriday-Art

Upcoming Dates/Reminders: Thursday, October 24: Picture RetakesThursday, October 31: Harvest Parade/Party @ 2:20Tuesday, November 5- No School Students, Election Day

Be sure to check out more pictures from the week on Twitter or the webpage.@SimmonsSCE2http://www.dublinschools.net/AmySimmons.aspx