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January 25
Update
by  melanie.tingleyNo presence information  on 1/25/2017 1:13 PM
Category: Mrs. Tingley
Over the past few weeks, we have been working very hard.  Below are the concepts we have been examining since Christmas.  Please continue to read with your child each and every night.  Have your child practice reading their take home books.  Encourage them to track the print with their finger and to look carefully at all of the words, paying close attention to what the words start with and if there are any chunks they recognize.  Reading the same books over and over again helps to increase comprehension and fluency.  Continue practicing all of the letters and sounds as well as the sight words.  Each week, the students will bring home new sight words and the list contiues to grow, therefore, it is important to keep working with the children on all of the words.  Practice and repetiiton will solidify the concepts for them.  Play concentration, hide and seek, use smelly markers to practice printing them, use magnetic letters, hide them in a rice bucket to dig for treasure etc...  There are numerous ways to make learning words interesting, Please let me know if you need any suggestions.  

Literacy

1. Introduced digraphs - sh, th, ch, wh
2.  New sight words - of, in, can, am
3.  Reading behaviours - tracking the print with our finger, concepts of print such as spacing, capital and lowercase letters, punctuation.
4. Reading strategies - Review of all strategies taught prior to Christmas - Eagle Eye (use pictures to help), Lips the Fish (look at beginning sound), Stretchy Snake (stretch out all sounds in word and blend back together).  Introduced new reading strategy - Chunky Monkey (look for small familiar chunks in unknown words.  Ex. path - "th" is a chunk we know and we can use it to help us decode path.
5. Phonemic Awareness - We continue to work on stretching out sounds in words and blending them back together.
6.  Writing - Choosing a small personal moment to share and discuss.  Working on stretching out sounds in writing, putting spaces between words and using puncutation at the end.

​Numeracy​ - Students are enjoying a variety of whole class, small group and independent math stations surrounding the following topics.  

1.  Counting on from any number between 2-9.
2.  Recognizing familiar groups of dots on a dice, dot cards and five and ten frames.
3.  Proper formation of numerals 1-10
4.  Understanding value of numerals in relationship to objects as well as 1 to 1 correspondence.

You and Your World

1.  Learning about groups we belong to


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