Week of January 5, 2015

PALS Testing

This week we will begin our mid-year PALS Testing.  PALS stands for Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening.  Each student will be given a spelling test to demonstrate their knowledge of how letters and sounds are put together to form words.  Then students will be given an assessment to test their sight word automaticity.  The final part of this testing will be an assessment that tests their reading fluency and comprehension.  Once this testing is complete, an analysis of your child's results will be sent home, and requests for conferences can be made at that time.  

Phonics Story: Four Clues for Chee (or, ore, oor, our; ed and es)

Target Skills: 1) character, 2) r controlled vowels: or, ore, oor, our, 3) abbreviations, 4) inflected endings, 5) Table of Contents, 6) Dramatize 7) Narrative Writing

Story: Young Cam Jansen: Dinosaur (strategy-making connections, skill-character)

Spelling words :bring, brought, next, read, picture (HF) corn, horse, pour, door, more, store, hurries, cried, amazing, order

Science- Matter ( Solid, liquid, and gas) and magnets

Math- Money

 Thanks so much for all of your support to make our snack party, breakfast, and “Stuff” the stocking all a great success. Because of parents like you, our children felt so special. A “Big” thanks to all for the wonderful gifts that you showered me during the holidays. They most definitely will come in handy. You are toooo kind!  Lets have a great start to 2015!

Homework

Monday:  Read for 20 minutes (AR book)and sign reading log.  Math sheet, write your spelling words in ABC order, study IN

Tuesday:  Read and sign reading log, math sheet, study matter notes, study spelling words

Wednesday:  Read for 20 minutes., study IN notes in science, math sheet, study spelling words for pretest, write a sentence with 10 of your spelling words (these will be turned in- must be on lined paper)

Thursday:  Read for 20 minutes, study math notes for money quiz, math sheet, study science notes, reread the story, Young Cam Jansen: Dinosaurs, study spelling words

Friday: Read a great book

Comments

Resources this week: Guidannce, Library, Art, Computer, Music, P.E,  

       Please check your child’s agenda each night and initial or sign by the color he/she earns for the day. Also, be sure to look through the red folder on Mondays to sign graded papers sheet and clean out. Please keep all social studies test and science test for nine weeks test in their social studies or science IN notebook

Homework is always subject to change