The children really enjoyed starting our Reading Ticket today! They had a blast playing alphabet and sight word games. Many children wrote in their journals and drew beautiful pictures. Stories on tape were fun to listen to. We were also impressed that we had children reading in some sight word easy readers. The children remembered most of the routines we've been practicing in order for Reading Ticket to run smoothly. We were very proud of our students and look forward to having these fun activities each day. Gina Holcomb and Debbie Hodges, two of our parent volunteers were very helpful in checking off the students after their Reading Ticket activities were finished. We would love to have more parents to come and help us. We have Reading Ticket Monday through Thursday from 1:20 to 2:20 if you'd like to join us.
Please continue helping your child each night with homework. We can tell who is making great progress on our weekly sight words. Remember that the homework contract should be returned each Friday inside the homework folder. We must have the folder so that the new homework can be put inside and sent home on Monday. We do not need any of the completed work, ONLY the homework contract. At this time, we are hopeful that your child should be able to read the first two weeks of sight words. These are: a, and, the, of, to, it, is, in, that, you. If your child does not know these words, please continue to work on these at home.
In phonics, we've covered the letters L,O,G,H, and this week's letter T. Your child should be able to recognize both the upper and lowercase letter and give the sound each letter makes.
In math, we are working on sorting. You can encourage this at home by having your child sort things in your house, such as the laundry, foods in the pantry, toys, etc... We have been practicing sorting attribute blocks in lots of ways. We've sorted our attribute blocks by size, color, shape, and thickness.
We all had a blast on Grandparents Day. Mrs. Sirmans, Mrs. Whitaker, and I really enjoyed meeting our students Grandparents. The students sang "AEIO Moo" song about vowels and "Love Grows" to everyone. We had delicious breakfast treats. We really appreciate Gina Holcomb and Kristie Gauthier who planned the refreshments. Many of the pastries offered were made by Tara Tomlinson, Jadyn's mom, who owns Sugar Kneads in Loganville. If you are in need of some baked goods or cakes, this would be a wonderful place to go. It is located in the same shopping center as Johnny's Pizza. We really appreciate her donating those tasty treats. I have made pictures of the kids with their grandparents, so I should be sending a copy soon.
Please continue to encourage your children to follow the rules, not pull sticks, and earn enough stickers for our next behavior party, Movie and Popcorn. Most of us are having a great month so far!
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Sebastian is learning so much! He tells us about Reading Ticket every day! He says it's his favorite time of the school day (along with outside time)!
Thank you so much for taking the time to keep us parents updated.Colten has learned so much in such a sort time.
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