Ms.
Glidewells
Class
December 4th-
December 8th 2017
Dear Parents,
This week in Readers Workshop, we will read,
Our Special Sweet Potato Pie To increase reading
comprehension, we will work on segmenting letter sounds in
words, rhymes substituting letter sounds, adding phonemes,
deleting phonemes, and language awareness with sentences.
We will Summarize (A good way to understand a story is to
think about the important key events and the order in
which they happen. We can retell the story from beginning
to end.) Make Inferences (Sometimes we must figure out
things in the story ourselves. Paying attention to the
important events gives us clues about the story.) Literary
Element: Rhythm (many poems have a rhythm or a beat like
music) and Alliteration (words that begin with the same
sound)
This week in Writers Workshop we will continue our
How to books. We will be focusing on using spacing between
words, capitalization and punctuation, and 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 games to reinforce
numbers and counting backwards, comparing numbers,
composing and decomposing numbers, and counting on from
a certain number, writing the number before and after a
given number.
For Social Studies we will be talking about
Holidays and Traditions. We have a few parents coming to
teach our class about a special holiday/ tradition, In
Science, we will continue our scientist of the day lessons.
Ways to support 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.
Help your child sound out words and write
about a topic of interest using details in a
drawing to go with the words
Major Assessments 2nd Nine Week
(There are many others not listed)
Writing first and last name
Spelling CVC words (we will have a spelling
test)
Retell beginning, middle and end of a story
Rhyme
Read 10-13 sight words for a grade of 2
Identify story setting, characters,
problem, and solution
Write using simple sentences, some
capitalization and punctuation and form
letters correctly
Recognizing numerals to 20
Rote count backwards from 10
Compare/contrast using math vocabulary
Word Wall Words: 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, at, how, up, can , it, fun, as,
did, will, am, in, boy, girl, yes, no ,if, mom, dad, love,
or, but, went, get, had, want, not, on, us, that, him,
her, they, could, some, one, two, three ,four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten, red, yellow, blue ,green,
orange, purple, black, white, brown
Wish List
Used greeting cards (Please cut off the back where
someone has written on it and we will glue the front on
construction paper and make new cards) I would like to
collect these from you all year!
Sincerely, Sherry Glidewell
Email: sherry.glidewell@austinisd.org
(512) 841-0326
Class website
Go to https://gullettgeckos.com and click on Learning.
Next, click on kindergarten and scroll down to websites and
click on my name. You will see photos, newsletters and our
schedule!