January 25, 2010 Lesson 19

Mrs. Greenhaw’s Knowledge Munchers

Reading Homework:

Monday: Read ―Beaver’s Green Treat‖ pages 16-23 and skills 24-27. Practice grouping words

Spelling
into phrasing to help with fluency.

Tuesday: Read ―little Rabbit’s Tale‖ pages 28-49. * This is an AR test! Be sure you child Book Fair and PTO

Words:
can answer the questions at the end of the story. Have them write down what happened in
the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Also have them list who the characters were meeting will be next
and where the setting took place. This will help tremendously with retell and comprehension.
week.
1. me Wednesday: Read ―Grow Apples Grow‖ on pages 50-51 and complete pages 52-53 on paper
with your child.

2. see Thursday: Reread for fluency and read an AR book. Your child may bring a fluency folder
with passages in it or one of my books to review a skill previously taught. Please have your
We will start doing our
spelling in class so that
3. feet child read them, read word lists in the back of the book or time them or allow them to time
themselves for a minute to see how many words they can read in a minute. Our goal is 60
words per minute and retell 30 words back of what they remember—this is their you may spend more
4. seat comprehension. You can purchase a timer from the Dollar Tree for a $1.
time listening to them
Review Sight Words / High Frequency words with your child. Remember that students will be
read their stories,
5. mean tested on these words again. They should simply be able to say them when they see them.
fluency passages. I
Thursday: Reread everything for fluency to help prepare for test. Please only read the

6. team assigned stories. Do not read ahead. If they are wanting to read more, please encourage
them to read their library / AR books.
have told the children
to go ahead and take
7. slow their spelling journal
home so you can make
8. road Sight Words / High Frequency Words to KNOW:
be many their could saw grew again Mrs. sure they completed
9. our very Family name always please food put cold their work and know
Nice does arms under gold were need feel their words. I would
10.over happy
room
air
grow
play
fish
house
animals
say
made
people
fly
by
rain
still call out words and
have them spell them
Know about read cow’s live from came night
out orally or take writ-
MATH: ten practice tests.
Spelling
Please continue to work with your child on knowing their basic addition
Monday-Write and say the and subtraction facts. This will help them when we get to 2 digit addi-
tion and subtraction next nine weeks.
word three times. *Please continue prac-
Tuesday– Triangles / pyra- Your child may very well have a math worksheet to finish most nights ticing saying First
mids / stair steps this week. Grade Words.
Wednesday– ABC order
Thursday– Write a sentence
with each word..(Underline spell-
ing words) ***I will start taking
a grade on their sentences in PHONICS
class. I will be looking to see
if it has a noun, verb, adjective,
We are studying the long e. The long e could be e by it-
self, ee, or ea. If you have flashcards at home, your
High Frequency Words and child could sort the words accordingly for additional
Bonus words: dear, door, practice.
hurry, mother, should, sky,
told
Grammar: Describing words: color, size, shape
Robust Vocabulary:
Writing: Description of a Thing
courteous, devious, rapidly,
gullible, hastily, unreasonable
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Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 100-150 words.
The subject matter that appears in
newsletters is virtually endless. You
can include stories that focus on cur-
rent technologies or innovations in
your field.
You may also want to note business or
economic trends, or make predictions
for your customers or clients.
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 75-125 words.
Selecting pictures or graphics is an
important part of adding content to
your newsletter.
Think about your article and ask your-
self if the picture supports or en-
hances the message you’re trying to
convey. Avoid selecting images that
appear to be out of context.
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ternally, you might comment upon new can also profile
procedures or improvements to the new employees or ―To catch the
business. Sales figures or earnings top customers or reader's
will show how your business is grow- vendors. attention,
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interesting
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sentence or
that is updated every issue, for in-
quote from the
stance, an advice column, a book re-
story here.‖
view, a letter from the president, or
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cludes thousands of clip place the caption of the
art images from which image near the image.
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draw shapes and symbols. Caption describing picture
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Reading: We will be reading the following stories: Go, Go, Go, Tag, Let’s Tap, Wag, Hop, Hide!, along with other stories in small
group sessions . Ask your child about one of the stories. Please read the ones with your child that are in their textbook.
We are also working on beginning and middle sounds of words and pictures as well as the following word endings: -op, -ot, -en, -et,
-ug, -ut, -up. We have a rhyming song too!! It goes like this: Sound, Sound, Sound alike
Except where they begin,
Rhyming, rhyming,rhyming
Middle and the end!

Please cut out the word flash cards and practice them everynight, but return them in the blue folder for now everyday.

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easy to read at a glance. include a listing of
A question and answer session is a those here. You may
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since the last edition or you can sum- tion that you’ve cre-
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