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November 8, 2013

De la Seora:
We spent these last two weeks doing the first unit in our Language Arts curriculum. The class is now beginning to read and its really fun watching them beginning to apply the letter sounds and vocabulary knowledge to texts. We also have begun to meet with fourth-grade book buddies. Every other Monday we spend 20 minutes reading with them. Check out some pictures on Facebook. It was such a pleasure to meet with you all for the conferences and to talk about your child. I am so very encouraged by their progress and their understanding.

Bible: We finished our discussion of the

Circle of Grace. We also completed our technology safety unit to wrap up our month of safety. We will now move back to our normal Bible curriculum.

Bible Memory: Isaiah 40:31

Due: 11/27

Math:
* Counting on the number line * Adding & subtracting on the number line * Telling time to the half hour * Frames and arrows

Language Arts:
Phonics Skill: m and p syllables Sight words: baja, sube, salta Comprehension: words related to our syllable combinations, actions

Upcoming Events: Nov. 14 Grandparents Day Nov. 22 Scholastic orders due Nov. 26 Fall party, 12:15 Nov. 28, 29, Dec. 2 No school REMINDERS: * Please make sure your child has a warm coat, gloves, hat, etc. for going to recess in the morning * If you want to order anything from Scholastic for Christmas presents, let me know. I can hide orders!

Writing:
We worked very hard on our Little Bird Tales stories. You can log-on for your child using his/her name as the log in and last name as the password. School code is 10qG.

www.littlebirdtales.com

Spelling words come from the letter and syllable combinations we are studying for the week as well as sight words. This coming week will be t and d combinations. When children learn to read Spanish they focus on syllable chunks rather than separate letters. ta (tah) da (dah) te (tay) de (day) ti (tee) di (dee) to (toe) do (doh) tu (too) du (do)

Spelling Words: dame (dah - may) VERB: give me todo (toe - thoh) ADJ: all toma (toe - mah) VERB: [he/she/it] takes dice (dee - say) VERB: [he/she/it] says doy (doi) VERB: [I] give Sight Words: gusta (goo - stah) VERB: like tambin (tahm - bee - en) ADV: also salir (sah - leer) VERB: to go out encima (en - see - mah) PREP: over, on top of dijo (dee - hoh) VERB: [he/she/it] said