Dear Families,
Yet another busy week and the first full week at that! The children seem tired but happy and we’re moving ahead with all areas of study.
During Fundations this week, we reviewed letter names and sounds and even more importantly…formation! We’ve been seeing some, shall we say, creative letter writing! All students are benefitting from the printing review. Both Mrs. McGuire and I have shared with the classes that in order to communicate effectively with writing, letters and words need to be read easily by others. We sky write each letter (ask your child to show you) and then use special Fundations paper with a sky line (again, ask your child to explain), plane line, grass line and worm line to help children form letters properly. They seem to enjoy the exercises!
About homework…until we begin formal reading groups, the reading homework will consist of you and your child sharing books each day. Many of you will still be reading to your child, but ask to see if your child recognizes any words they know on the page. Many children know the words “the”, “my”, “to” and other words and are excited to find those words on book pages! Beginning Monday, I’ll put a reading graph in your child’s homework folder. Each night, please read to/with your child for at least 15 minutes. Have your child color in an apple for each 15 minutes you spend with books! I’ll collect them from the folders the following Monday! If your child needs more printing practice, you’ll find paper and instructions in the homework folder on Monday as well. I usually send home the reading and spelling homework on Monday and collect it on Friday.
Math update…the class as a whole seems to love the Bridges program. Lessons early in the school year are meant to introduce daily routines and review and extend skills from kindergarten. Each day children have “number corner.” It has several calendar activities and then a short lesson. Children are learning to recognize patterns, identify coins by name and value, practice telling time to the hour, in addition to having daily lessons practicing addition and subtraction strategies.
You’ll notice that a fundraising packet came home today with your child. This year our school chose a company called Meadow Farms Fundraising. The directions are on the envelope and seem clear enough. Inside there are directions for online ordering if that seems easier for your family. As always, fundraising is a choice. If you choose to participate in the fundraising, checks are payable to Hinesburg Community School and packets are due on October 1st. Thanks!
Thanks to Ryann for being our first Star Student of the Week! Her mom, Elisabeth, and her baby brother, Lucas, came in to share all about Ryann! We learned that Ryann likes all shades of blue, but turquoise most of all. Her first word was “shoes” and she’d like to be a horseback riding teacher when she grows up! Happy birthday, Ryann!
Have a wonderful weekend!
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