Dec. 11th-15th

We have been busy in math, reading, and writing. In writing we have been learning to write How To's. We have been learning in whole group How To make a sandwich, brush teeth, blow bubbles, and make cookies. We will be continuing to learn to write How To's and eventually the students will write their own.

We have been having fun with communities and working in groups to build our own communities. They shared their communities in front of the class.  They were great!

Monday we will be having fun with science. We will be learning fun things about Push and Pull.

Letters: We have finished learning all the letters and sounds.However, we will continue to build real and nonsense words to learn the beginning, middle, and ending sounds in a spoken word.

We will be learning Digraphs. Ch, Sh, Th, Ck, Wh.

Sight Words: the, see, can, a, I, like, we, to, go, and, you, and do. Please have your child practice the sight words. They can write the sight words on index cards to make flash cards. They can trace them in salt. 

Specials Schedule:  Our class is divided in half each day. Half of the class goes with Mrs. Zarlengo's class and the other half goes with Mrs. Mink's class. 

Group 1: 

12/11 Music

12/12 Enrichment

12/13 Art

12/14 Art

12/15 Enrichment

Group 2: 

12/11 Art 

12/12 Art

12/13 Enrichment

12/14 PE

12/15 PE

Important Dates: 12/11, 2/12, 12/13

on Monday 12/11 Colorado Rockies Mascot will be visiting Three Creeks.

This week I will be mid year testing the students in MAPS (math testing). They will be testing on Tuesday and Wednesday. This test will help me where their strengths and weaknesses are. I can help them meet their math goals for the end of the year.

Have a super week!

Always,

Mrs. Dahman

Dec. 4th - 8th

What a great week back! We were busy in math, writing, and guided reading.  We jumped right in after the break without blinking.   

I apologize, I told you last week in my blog that we started a unit in science on push and pull. We are starting push and pull this week.

We have been doing a fun unit on communities. They have been learning about community helpers. We have been writing about which community helper we want to be when we grow up. Please get on seesaw to see the picture that your child drew.

Ipad: They will come home this week. They will be doing work on a writing app. 

What we know:

Letters: We have finished learning all the letters and sounds.However, we will continue to build real and nonsense words to learn the beginning, middle, and ending sounds in a spoken word.

Sight Words: the, see, can, a, I, like, we, to, go, and, you. This week our new word is do. Please have your child practice the sight words. They can write the sight words on index cards to make flash cards. They can trace them in salt. 

Specials Schedule:  Our class is divided in half each day. Half of the class goes with Mrs. Zarlengo's class and the other half goes with Mrs. Mink's class. 

Group 1:

12/4 Enrichment

12/5 PE

12/6 PE

12/7 Enrichment

12/8 Music

Group 2:

12/4 PE

12/5 Enrichment

12/6 Music

12/7 Music

12/8 Enrichment

Important Dates:

This week I will be mid year testing the students in DIBELS on FSF (first sound fluency), PSF ( Phonemic sound fluency) all the sounds they hear in a spoken word. and NWF (nonsense word fluency). 

Have a super week!

Always,

Mrs. Dahman