Camp Mabry around 12:25.

Please let me know if you

Ms. Glidewells would like to help!
Wish List
Used greeting cards (Please cut off the back where
someone has written on it and we will glue the front on
construction paper and make new cards) I would like to
collect these from you all year!

Class
Ways to support learning at home:
Monday, October 23rd-
Friday, October 27th, 2017 Have your child read to someone each
night for 10-15 min.
Dear Parents, Have your child practice writing simple
This week in Readers Workshop, we will sentences paying attention to using spacing
read, Simon and Molly Plus Hester To increase between words.
reading comprehension, we will Ask Questions Play a word wall word game.
(asking questions is a good way to understand the Help your child sound out words and write
characters and what a story is about) and Identifying about a topic of interest using details in a
Characters (A story often has characters that do drawing to go with the words.
the actions in the story.) Text Features:
Photographs: Use Photographs to get important Major Assessments 2nd Nine Week
information. Photographs tell the reader that the (There are many others not listed)
book is about real people, places, or things.
We will be identifying final and medial sounds, Writing first and last name
segmenting words, adding deleting phonemes. Spelling CVC words (we will have a
This week in Writers Workshop we are working spelling test)
on our Garden books. In Math we will play many Retell beginning, middle and end of a
math games to reinforce numbers and counting story
backwards. Rhyme
For Social Studies we will be learning about Long Read 10-13 sight words for a grade of
Ago and Today with a focus on technology and 2
inventions. In Science, we will continue our study of Identify story setting, characters,
matter and energy matter and energy with a focus on problem, and solution
magnets. Write using simple sentences, some
capitalization and punctuation and
Word Wall Words: I, the, we, like, a, see, go, to, form letters correctly
have, is, play, are, for, this, do, and, what, you ,little, Recognizing numerals to 20
said, here, was, she, he, has ,look, with, my, me, Rote count backwards from 10
where, when, who, at, how, up, can , it, fun, as, did, Compare/contrast using math
will, am, in, boy, girl, yes, no ,if, mom, dad, love, or, vocabulary
but, went, get, had, want, not, on, us, that, him, her,
Class website
they, could, some, one, two, three ,four, five, six,
Go to https://gullettgeckos.com and click on Learning.
seven, eight, nine, ten, red, yellow, blue ,green,
Next, click on kindergarten and scroll down to websites and
orange, purple, black, white, brown click on my name. You will see photos, newsletters and our
schedule!
Important Dates:
Nov. 3rd Camp Mabry Fieldtrip Sincerely, Sherry Glidewell
12:00-2:00 We will eat lunch before we go at Gullett Email: sherry.glidewell@austinisd.org
at our regular lunch time. Parents will meet us at (512) 841-0326