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We have made it through the first nine weeks of your child's first year in primary school. The children are workin hard and learning a lot. We have been very busy strengthening our Reading and Math knowledge. We will be meeting the first week of November for Parent Conferences. I hope to see all of you so that we can discuss your child's progress. Reading There is a lot to do to get your child ready to read. We have also been practicing making rhyming words. We listen to words to identify the beginning sounds that we hear. We are putting together and taking apart two words to make compound words. The class gets to practice making each letter by rainbow writing on the Smart board. We have lots of fun taking it back to the old school with ABC Disco. Then we bring it back to the future with Hip Hop Alphabet. Finally, we finish up with our phonics song. Things you can do at home: Make up Rhyming words Practice identifying upper and lower case letters Play sound BINGO or Go Fish with your child to practice producing letter sounds. Math We practice our math skills each day by listening to drops in a bucket, counting our days we have been in school, counting out the calendar days, practicing our graphing skills, telling whether a group is more, less, or equal, and practicing putting numbers onto a blank number line. The children enjoy getting to rainbow write their numbers to a rhyme using the Smart board. We also enjoy rapping our numbers in our teens and counting to 100. We also count forwards and backwards through our number song. Things you can do at home: Practice counting anything you have. How many green beans are on thier plate? How many steps is it to get to the car?. etc... Go over numbers in their teens. This is the hardest part of counting for most children. Comparing groups of objects to see which is more, less, or equal. Identifying shapes and colors Mrs. Barksdale | 
