Ms.

Glidewells To pass the word wall assessment this nine

weeks your child must read 26 words and this
would earn a grade of 2 on the report card
List of word wall words for the year:
I, the, we, like, a, see, go, to, have, is, play, are,
for, this, do, and, what, you ,little, said, here, was,
she, he, has ,look, with, my, me, where, when, who,
at, how, up, can , it, fun, as, did, will, am, in, boy,
Class girl, yes, no ,if, mom, dad, love, or, but, went, get,
had, want, not, on, us, that, him, her, they, could,
February 13th-17th 2017 some, one, two, three ,four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten, red, yellow, blue ,green, orange, purple,
Dear Parents, black, white, brown

This week in Readers Workshop, we will read, Alicias Happy

Day To increase reading comprehension, we will Summarize (A Expectations for this nine weeks
good way to understand a story is to think about the important key assessments:
events and the order in which they happen. We can retell the story
Help your child sound out words and write about a topic
from beginning to end) Retell (A good way to understand a story is
of interest using details in a story and drawing pictures
to remind ourselves of what is happening in the story as we listen
to go with the words.
and read. This will help you retell the story.) Informational Text:
Expository (text that explains or gives information: often contains Use capitalization
photographs). We will be rhyming, blending, onset fluency, Use punctuation
identifying final and medial sounds, segmenting letter sounds in Use spacing between words
words, substituting letter sounds, adding phonemes, deleting
phonemes, language awareness with sentences.
We will have assessments on the
In Writers Workshop we will continue letter
writing. We are reviewing question marks, periods and following skills this nine weeks:
exclamation marks. We are also making cards, lists, invitations, and
In Math we will continue money and financial
labeling. Count backwards from 20
literacy. Write numbers to 20
For Social Studies we will be learning about Practice counting by 10s to 100 orally
Presidents. In Science, we will continue our study Identifying 3-d shapes
animals. Rote count to 100
Identify coins
Writing first and last name
Spring Conferences
.
Thank you for signing up for your conference. I am Book Baggies
enjoying meeting with everyone and feel truly blessed Read every night
to be working with such a great group of parents and Your child should be reading every night. It is
children. important to read the books multiple times to work on
fluency. You should keep them at least two
nights.
Valentines Day Cards
Fluency develops as a result of many opportunities to practice
Our party will be on Tuesday, February 14th. Look for reading with a high degree of success. Therefore, your child should
your class list with instructions making valentine cards! practice rereading aloud texts that are reasonably easy for them
The cards will need to be at school before the 14th because that is, texts containing mostly words that they know or can
your child will be sorting his/her own cards as a language decode easily. In other words, the texts should be at the childs
independent reading level.
arts lesson.

Looking forward to a great week!

Wish List Sincerely, Sherry Glidewell
A diffuser and lavender oil (seriously) Email: sherry.glidewell@austinisd.org (512) 841-
0326