Week of September 22, 2012

Dear Parents,

FAMILY PHOTO: Thank you  to all the families that have sent in a photo for our “Family“ bulletin board. If you have not done so already, please send in one as we are starting our new unit on Families this week.

PREDECODABLE: Your child is bringing home their first predecodable in their folders today.  All predecodables should have a special place at home and I suggest that you have your child decorate a shoebox to store them in. They will eventually have 20 booklets with their High Frequency Words in them. If they bring in a decorated shoebox  or some other container to show the class, I will reward them with a sticker!

Here is an overview of this week’s lessons:

        Religion: We will talk about God’s gift of land.

        Animals of the Week: Apes and Bears.

        Math: We will continue to review patterns and have

                  the children match the correct number of

                  cubes to Numbers 1-10 .

SRA Reading: We will be introducing their first High Frequency Word.----a.  We will learn the meaning of first and last, and begin a new BIG BOOK on alphabet letters. You can make flash cards at home so your child can practice recognizing the alphabet letters, both upper and lower case. We will be doing a letter a day starting with Aa .We will also discuss the need for spaces between words and understand that a sentence is made up of individual words.

We will continue to work on rhyming  words as well. I am sending home a list of words for you to give your child to check if they are understanding the concept of rhyming, an important skill in reading readiness.  Sometimes they are able to rhyme only 2 or 3 words  and if you add any new words they have difficulty.

CAFÉ SSJ: We would like 100% participation for our Café SSJ, the school’s bake booth at our Parish Festival. Please read the flyers for this event and the school communication which is online.

FESTIVAL PARKING: The festival rides will start appearing in our parking lot next Monday. Please allow extra time in the morning to find a parking spot.

Have a great week!

Edde Chalk