January 23-27, 2012

Announcements:

• We will have group pictures on Thursday, January 26th.
• Our 100th day of school will be on Monday, January 23rd.
• Our Valentine's Day party will be on Friday, February 10th.
• Please encourage your child to try their best to become part of the alpha-pack for 3rd 9 weeks.
• This week we will be doing a unit study on Bears.

Spelling/Phonics:

1. pie
2. lie
3. sight
4. tie
5. right
6. might
7. your
8. were
9. went
10. saw

Dictation Sentence: I like to eat pie at night.

*We will also have an unknown dictation sentence.

Reading/Sight Words:
Please make sure to check your child's folder each night for reading homework. Encourage them to use their reading strategies when they come to a word they don't know.

Sight Words: when, who, mother, father, put, where, there, went, were, from, saw, would, could, your

Math:
Monday- 100th day math activities
Tuesday- Explore sums of 2 dice. Remind your child that a sum is the answer to an addition problem...it has been hard for some to remember :)
Wednesday- Introduce collection boxes
Thursday- Introduce fact families with dominoes
Friday- Take Test over Lessons 6.1-6.3

*Please return all math homework on Friday :)