Sanders' Sunflowers
Classroom Newsletter
Week of February 3-7,2014
Information and Reminders
- I will be attending a writing workshop in Columbia on Monday. I will check my emails late in the afternoon. I will try to respond to any I rececive by the end of the day. It may be into the evening since I won't return until after 5:00.
- I will send home reading response journals on Tuesday this week due to having a substitute on Monday.
- The students are doing a great job on graphing!!
Important Dates
Feb. 4- Variety Show at Wren High School
Feb. 10- PTO begins selling candygrams
Feb. 17- teacher inservice- students do not report
Feb. 21- Daddy/Daughter Dance
Important Connections and Links
This is a direct link to my email and my website. I have also included the school's phone number.
Email: sandersr@anderson1.k12.sc.us
Website: http://www.anderson1.k12.sc.us/Domain/658
Phone: 864-850-5950
Reading
Weekly Story : Little Rabbit's Tale
Skills:
- recongnizing cause and effect
- reading words with short e sound made with ea (bread)
- reading compound words
There will be a spelling and sight word test on Friday this week.
Sight Words:
1. try 2. wash 3. mother 4. use 5. want
6. old 7. door 8. more 9. game 10. much
Math
We will continue practicing addition and subtraction to 10 to build speed and accuracy with math facts. The students will be given a sheet of 30 problems and timed for 2 minutes to increase speed .The class will also continue to learn how to read information from charts and graphs. The students will construct their own graph this week . We will have a test on Friday. The questions will be very much like the questions on the homework practice sheets.
Science/Social Studies
We are continuing a combined social studies and science unit on earth materials (rocks, dirt, soil) , what they are made of, and how we use them. The students will also be learning about democracy, voting, and laws in America. We are also learning different landforms this week.
Homework
Mon.- practice sheet; spelling words
Tues. - No homework due to the variety show
Thurs. - practice sheet; spelling words
Fri. - spelling and sight word test. Reading response journals will be due.
*** Students should read the story Little Rabbit's Tale in the blue folder named Journeys Story Summaries.***