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Newsletter Date 10/3/2011

E-mail: awilliamson@colonial.k12.de.us

Important
Picture Day

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The unit we will be beginning is called Families. Some of the books we will be reading as a class in this unit include: 1. What Will Mommy Johnson 2. Up, Up, Up! It's Apple Picking Time Shapiro 3. Bee-Bim Bop by: Linda Sue Park Bear's Busy Family by: Stella Blackstone Who Will Tuck Me in Tonight by: Carol Roth by: Jody Fickes Do When I'm at School? by: Dolores

Thursday, October 6, 2011 NO SCHOOL Friday, October 7, 2011 Monday, October 10, 2011 Letter P Party Friday, October 14, 2011
Activities begin at 9:30am

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Friday, October 21,2011 Spirit Day: Dream Job Day Friday, October 21, 2011 Family Project's Due Monday, October 17, 2011

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New Shoes For Sylvia by: Johanna Hurwitz

With this unit we are beginning to work on reading independently using the high frequency words we are learning and pictures for the words we do not know. I will be sending home copies of these books. If you child reads them to you, a pet, or a family member and brings it back signed 3 times they get a pencil, or eraser and a reading certificate! Here is a list of some books children will be trying to read independently:

Check and clean out your child's yellow folder each day. Remember to send in lunch money with your child in an envelope. Grandparents day at Wilbur is on Friday, October 21
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School Address: 4050 Wrangle Hill Rd. Bear, DE 19701 School Phone Number: (302)832-6330 Room Number: Y-1 Class Website: ~!!l!!:Jsl!~tm~~~~~!m

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We have begun the year by learning how to write and recognize certain words that are commonly seen in the English language. In each newsletter I will include the words we are learning.

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Eachweek we learn a new letter's sound and learn to identify it when we see it in print. Currently we have learned or will be learning the following letters: 1.M S.P

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10. A 11. My 12. The 13. Go 14. To 15. Like

1. Yellow 2. Red

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Language Ariz
We will be continuing our study on our letters of the alphabet. We will be however, be spending a full week on each individual letter. This instruction is primarily on letter identification and sound. It is our hopes that by the end of January we can continue to write using invented spelling as well as proper spelling techniques. In LanguageArts we are also beginning to identify words that rhyme.

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In math we are continuing to learn how to count to 20. Not only In our classroom we are learning so much! Thank you everyone for checking children's folders, sending in school supplies, and for helping with any behavior problems. Also thank you very much for coming out for Open House, I enjoyed meeting everyone! In other news updates have been made to the class website and new pictures are posted on Smug Mug. You will need to type in our password to the photos. have we been practicing counting items but we also are practicing drawing certain quantities. We will begin graphing and measuring within the next couple of weeks

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We now are examining the trees as they begin to change color. We are also are learning the different parts of a tree and have been investigating fruit trees. We have also practiced drawing and labeling a tree's parts

Handwrii:ing
This month we are continuing our handwriting program called Handwriting Without Tears.You may notice that Handwriting Without Tears usesa different kind of handwriting lines then are typically expected. These lines were created with young chi in mind and playa significant role in your child's handwriting success.