November 13-17

Don't forget to send in your 5lbs of sugar. These food items are part of the Christmas food baskets given to our support staff.

This Friday, November 17^th is an earl dismissal day. Students will be going home at 11:45 a.m. It is a professional development day for teachers.

This week your child will be reviewing all the Word Wall words with various chants and activities. The spelling challenge will be on Friday November 17th-

This week we will be introducing the following sight words:

find

long

down

day

did

Please make sure your child can recognize ALL of the following sight words.

the	of	and	a	to
in	is	you	that	it
he	was	for	on	are
as	with	his	they	I
at	be	this	have	from
or	one	had	by	words
but	not	what	all	were
we	when	your	can	said
there	use	an	each	which
she	do	how	their	if
will	up	other	about	out
many	then	them	these	so
some	her	would	make	like
him	into	time	has	look
two	more	write	go	see
number	no	way	could	people
my	than	first	water	been
called	who	am	its	now

The students will continue reading, Frog and Toad All Year. This book has 5 different stories so it would take us this and next week to finish it. After reading each story the children answer questions about the story in their reading notebook.

This week, your child will start working on learning subtraction strategies such as counting back.

Understand subtraction

F.1   Subtract with pictures - numbers up to 10

F.2   Subtraction sentences - numbers up to 10

This week we will continue writing Personal Narratives. The children will be writing about “How to Blow Bubbles.”

Discovery School’s Community Service Club will host a Christmas Bazaar on Saturday, November 18, at Plaza Marte. We will be waiting for you on this day. We will have lots of products available for you. We will be waiting for you from 9:00pm to 5:00pm. Don't miss it!!