Ms.
Glidewells
Class
November 14th-
November 18th 2016
Dear Parents,
This week in Readers Workshop, we
will read, Duck on a Bike To increase
reading comprehension, we willRecognize
Story Structure (Stories have structure, or a
way in which the things in the story happen.
For example, stories have a beginning,
middle, and end.) Identify Plot and
Character (Following what the characters, or
people, or animals, do can help readers
understand the story better. What happens
to the characters is called the plot.)
Informational Text: Expository (text that
explains or gives information; often contains
photographs).
This week in Writers Workshop we will
continue writing how to books. We will be
focusing on using spacing between words,
pointing to the words to reread our writing to see
if it makes sense. We will work on correcting our
writing so it will make sense to others. In Math
we will play many math games to reinforce
numbers and counting backwards, comparing
numbers, decomposing numbers, and counting
on from a certain number.
For Social Studies we will be talking
about Thanksgiving. In Science, we will be
continuing our study of objects in the sky.
Your childs Turkey in Disguise is due today!
Holidays and Traditions
Look for the form coming home to celebrate holidays and
traditions with our class. We are looking for parents or
grandparents to come and do a lesson any day in December
about a special holiday or tradition! These lessons will be
during social studies right after lunch at 12:10. The forms will
come home today.
Scientist of the Day
Look for a note and science experiment that will come
home with your child. Your child will be assigned a day
and a project. Your child will do the experiment at
home and then bring in the materials and explain it
and do it with the class. Projects will begin Nov. 28th
and end Jan. 13th. Your child will be graded on the
experiment and his/her lesson taught to the class. These will
come home today!
You will need to keep your childs experiment in a safe
place. The date will be on the instruction page. He/she
will have a worksheet to record that will need to be
returned and explained to the class on the day of the
experiment. Please keep up with the paper, it takes a
lot of time for me to assign, put in my lesson plans,
and copy and then go find the lesson and pull that
particular information again if it is lost. If your child is
sick on his/her day, I will give them a makeup day in
January. You are welcome to come and watch your child
teach the lesson. Please practice at home and pretend
to be the audience. We will have a Q and A session at
the end of each experiment. Our science time is at
11:05 and continue until lunch. So, if you are coming
just sign in at the office and come to the classroom.
This is so much fun for everyone.
Ways you can support your childs learning
at home:
Have your child read to someone each
night for 10-15 min.
Have your child practice writing simple
sentences paying attention to using
spacing between words
Play a word wall word game
These are the words that have been
introduced: 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
New words this week: at, how, up
Help your child sound out words and
write about a topic of interest using
details in a story and drawing
pictures to go with the words.
Help your child start sentences with a
capital letter and use punctuation, we
will have a grade on this for this nine
weeks!
Count backwards from 20
Generate a number that is one more
than or one less than another number
up to 20 ( also a new requirement
from the state)
Practice counting by 5s to 100 orally
Have your child practice writing first
and last name (I am sending home
a model)
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Book Baggies
Read every night
Looking forward to a great week!
Sincerely, Sherry Glidewell
Email: sherry.glidewell@austinisd.org
(512) 841-0326