Sound of the Week - M
Book of the Week - Owl Moon - by Jane Yolen
Habit of the Month - Self Control
Phonics - tapping out sounds in CVC words
Phonics - tapping out sounds in CVC words
Mom of the Month - Rachel Reiboldt
This will be our first week of HOMEWORK. The students seem excited! Every night your child will bring home a page or activity to be completed at home. The first few weeks your child might need guidance, but most of the pages or activities have been done many times in class. Yes, they should color and complete...always putting forth their best effort and return in their red folder the next day. Please text us with questions.
Here is a small clip of Jane Yolen's explanation of her her book Owl Moon, from her website. This book is outstanding!
This gentle tone poem about a father taking his daughter (yes–it’s a girl!) out owling one cold wintry night is arguably my best book. Certainly it’s my best known book. The 1988 Caldecott Medal winner for John Schoenherr’s beautiful, frosty, tender, exacting pictures, the book has been translated into nine languages, been an ALA Notable Book, a Reading Rainbow book, a Junior Literary Guild selection, and on dozens of state award lists. Though I envisioned the book in the little woods near our house, Schoenherr used his own farm in New Jersey as the setting. The father is my husband David, the child our daughter Heidi. It’s not an exact story of David taking Heidi out owling, but an amalgam of many such trips he did with all of our children. I purposefully didn’t mention the child’s gender, though the flap copy gives the secret away.
As you probably heard, today we started tapping out cvc words (consonant-vowel-consonant). The students were comfortable with tapping even on our first day. Please ask your child to show you how to tap the words - mat, map, sad and sap. Lefties tap with their left hands left to right. Righties tap with right hand left to right.
This gentle tone poem about a father taking his daughter (yes–it’s a girl!) out owling one cold wintry night is arguably my best book. Certainly it’s my best known book. The 1988 Caldecott Medal winner for John Schoenherr’s beautiful, frosty, tender, exacting pictures, the book has been translated into nine languages, been an ALA Notable Book, a Reading Rainbow book, a Junior Literary Guild selection, and on dozens of state award lists. Though I envisioned the book in the little woods near our house, Schoenherr used his own farm in New Jersey as the setting. The father is my husband David, the child our daughter Heidi. It’s not an exact story of David taking Heidi out owling, but an amalgam of many such trips he did with all of our children. I purposefully didn’t mention the child’s gender, though the flap copy gives the secret away.
As you probably heard, today we started tapping out cvc words (consonant-vowel-consonant). The students were comfortable with tapping even on our first day. Please ask your child to show you how to tap the words - mat, map, sad and sap. Lefties tap with their left hands left to right. Righties tap with right hand left to right.
Your children love to learn! Thanks for sharing them with me.
Kay
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