Week 3 Q3


Dear families,

Please reinforce neat work and proper Spalding handwriting when working with students at home on their homework.

The highlight of the week, on Friday, students celebrated the 100th day of school! Please asked them about all the activities they had throughout the day. They "cooked" their own snack!

Mrs. Bernal

What we learn this week!

Notes: Please practice all the phonograms at home. Students will assess every Friday as usual, plus we will have a Cumulative test at the end of the quarter with 55 phonograms in total. Spelling words will be test on Fridays for now on as part of our weekly test. The rest of the phonograms after 55, will be taught but not test. Students will test from 56 to 70 in first grade.

Also, students are loosing jackets. We always ask them to place them inside their backpacks when they are not in used. Make sure you label the jackets with their names. Without a name, it is hard for students to find them in the "lost and found" spot. They look for the lost ones during lunch/recess after they finish their lunch. Lost items take a while to make it to the "lost and found" spot. If you prefer, you can come before or after school to check the "lost and found" spot.

Spalding: We introduced the phonograms OI, WOR, EAR. Students used their pink notebook to write their new spelling words/sight words (ago, old, bad, red).

Reading reminders:

Your child should read to an adult as daily homework.

Practice sight words as daily homework. Assessments on Wednesdays.

Minimal goal by the end of third quarter, master 68 sight words. (5 sight words a week), but the sky is the limit!

Literature: Our poem this week is “Little Jack Horner”. The story this week was “Three Billy Goats Gruff”. Students created a goat mask, and the following day, students acted the story using their masks. We continued with our chapter book for “Mr. Poppers Penguin”. On Friday, we study the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel” to close our week.

Math: We continued our study of the “teen” numbers. Students count, write, and identify numbers 14 to 20. At all times we identified one ten, and then the ones to understand which number is. We discussed how 20 is different from the “teen” numbers and identified objects in groups up to 20 using the concept of groups of ten.

Science: We continued with our Astronomy unit, studying the 8 planets of the Solar System. Students are memorizing the names and order of the eight planets. Ask them to recite those to you!

History/Geography: Students review the continents and oceans, and we asked them where do they want to go to explore more about that place.


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