Fundations will return to our daily routine the week of Jan. 16th. mClass testing will be given the week of Jan. 8-12th.
A new spelling word packet has been sent home filled with suggested activities to do at home to practice the Fundation Skills taught each week. Your child will be filling out their Fundation Journal in class each day filled with the skill's rule and words we have been learning how to decode or map out. Please ask your child to explain this to you. This will put the ownership onto them to explain what they learned and encourage them to explain why they decoded the word as they did. Have them be the "teacher" for you :-).
For each unit a letter will be sent home in Tuesday Folders explaining the unit's skills. Please remember that the spelling activities are all optional! If you choose to practice the skill a different way or not at all will be a family choice.
I will be checking off each morning in their Fundation's journal if your child has completed a homework task, however I will not be grading it. Homework is considered practice only and cannot be applied to final grades. If your child does an activity that cannot be shown through their journal please write a brief note explaining what you did together and I will be happy to sign off with a star under your note.
Please be creative and make it fun practicing the skills and always search for these skills when reading together!
Fundations (word work) skill we are learning this week:
Fundations will return to our daily routine the week of Jan. 16th. mClass testing will be given the week of Jan. 8-12th.
Skills we have already discussed:
Consonants (all the letters in the alphabet but A,E, I, O, U)
Vowels- A E I O U
Syllables (open and closed)
Short o
short a
short i
A new spelling word packet has been sent home filled with suggested activities to do at home to practice the Fundation Skills taught each week. Your child will be filling out their Fundation Journal in class each day filled with the skill's rule and words we have been learning how to decode or map out. Please ask your child to explain this to you. This will put the ownership onto them to explain what they learned and encourage them to explain why they decoded the word as they did. Have them be the "teacher" for you :-).
For each unit a letter will be sent home in Tuesday Folders explaining the unit's skills. Please remember that the spelling activities are all optional! If you choose to practice the skill a different way or not at all will be a family choice.
I will be checking off each morning in their Fundation's journal if your child has completed a homework task, however I will not be grading it. Homework is considered practice only and cannot be applied to final grades. If your child does an activity that cannot be shown through their journal please write a brief note explaining what you did together and I will be happy to sign off with a star under your note.
Please be creative and make it fun practicing the skills and always search for these skills when reading together!
Fundations (word work) skill we are learning this week:
Fundations will return to our daily routine the week of Jan. 16th. mClass testing will be given the week of Jan. 8-12th.
Skills we have already discussed:
Consonants (all the letters in the alphabet but A,E, I, O, U)
Vowels- A E I O U
Syllables (open and closed)
Short o
short a
short i