Monday 12/2/13

Hi! Hope you all enjoyed your long weekend! Time to get back to business!

Today in Math we worked on a hard skill of different ways to make numbers up to 20. The students had counting cubes in class to help them learn this skill. Then I also taught ways to do this without counting cubes, since at home they won't have access to this. Students can draw out counters (preferably in a ten frame) and then "cut" the number in different ways. Or, you can provide your child with objects (such as beans, buttons) and separate the numbers in different ways. This is a challenging skill so we will be re-visiting this a few times.

Homework: 
Spelling: 3 times each

Reading: practice sight words and poem 

Math: 2 workbook pages 

 


Spelling Words:
Yellow: corn, cow, cake,coat, hose, house, horn, hill, fire, four, fan, fish, door, desk, doll, dog
(assessing for initial and prominent sounds: for example coat = "cot")

Green: plant, plow, plug, pliers, plum, sled, slices, sleep, slippers, slide, blocks, black, blue, blanket, blouse, flag, flower, flute, float, flashlight
(assessing for initial blends bl, pl, sl, fl and prominent sounds  for example pliers = "plirs")

Blue: long, blow, loaf, dome, coach, slow, roast, gloss, lose, roam, boat, know, grow, wrote, globe, throw, chop, drop, shop, note, close

Sight Words: with, there, thought, are, night, our, town, made, away, myself
(not assessing spelling, but fluency to say each word in a snap)