Ms.

Glidewells 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
Use capitalization at the beginning of the
Class
sentence.
Use punctuation at the end of a sentence
Using spacing between words
February 20th- 25th 2017 To pass the word wall assessment this nine
weeks your child must read 26 words and this
Dear Parents, would earn a grade of 2 on the report card
This week in Readers Workshop, we will read, List of word wall words for the year:
Rainy Day To increase reading comprehension, we will: I, the, we, like, a, see, go, to, have, is, play, are,
Retell (A good way to understand a story is to remind for, this, do, and, what, you ,little, said, here, was,
ourselves of what is happening in the story as we listen and she, he, has ,look, with, my, me, where, when, who,
read. This will help you retell the story.) Informational at, how, up, can , it, fun, as, did, will, am, in, boy,
Text: Expository (text that explains or gives information; girl, yes, no ,if, mom, dad, love, or, but, went, get,
often contains photographs) had, want, not, on, us, that, him, her, they, could,
This week in Writers Workshop we are beginning our unit some, one, two, three ,four, five, six, seven, eight,
on Cause and Effect. We will be writing about cause and nine, ten, red, yellow, blue ,green, orange, purple,
effect in our everyday lives. In Math we are investigating 3 black, white, brown
D shapes. In Social Studies we will talk Abraham Lincoln
and George Washington. In Health, we will discuss
emergencies, calling 911, appropriate weather clothing,
Expectations for this nine weeks
people who can give health information. assessments:
Help your child sound out words and write about a topic
of interest using details in a story and drawing pictures
New Chair Bags
to go with the words.
We love our new chair bags. A special thank you to Maxs family for
donating the material and his grandmother, Kathy Daughtrey for Use capitalization
making the chair bags. We can fit all of our things in them! Use punctuation
Everyone was so interested in the process of making the bags and Use spacing between words
requested a demonstration. So, Kathy will be coming back and
bringing her sewing machine for a lesson. Thank you so much!
We will have assessments on the
Field Trip following skills this nine weeks:
Zack Scott Theater Friday, Feb. 24th
We will not need chaperones. We will be eating lunch in our room at an
earlier time before school lunch is served. Please send your child a lunch ! Count backwards from 20
Write numbers to 20
Wish List Practice counting by 10s to 100 orally
We need a few fine motor practice items for centers! Identifying 3-d shapes
*Homemade playdough Rote count to 100
*Mad Mattr Doh Writing first and last name
*6 small empty plastic water bottles (no lids needed)
*Colander (plastic or metal that pipe cleaners can fit through holes)
*Colorful pipe cleaners
*Skewers for beading Looking forward to a great week!
*Colorful pom poms (about the size of a marble) Sincerely, Sherry Glidewell
*Random jewels, all sizes of google eyes, glass Email: sherry.glidewell@austinisd.org (512) 841-0326
pebbles, small birthday candles (anything small you have around
the house that would be fun to use in playdough)