Ms.

Fetters
January Newsletter
Newsletter Date 1/5/2015

E-mail: afetters@colonial.k12.de.us

Whats Happening

Dates to Remember
No School
January 1st and 2nd
Kindergarten Registration Night
Tuesday, January 6th @ 6:00 pm
End of Second Marking Term
Friday, January 16th
No School MLK Day

Language Arts
Our main focus this month will be on using and
understanding question words how they relate to the
characters and setting of a story, as well as describing
the relationship between text and illustrations. The
children will also be reading poetry and discussing its
similarities and differences with other common types
of text. For phonics and phonemic awareness, the
children will be segmenting beginning, middle, and
ending sounds in cvc words, as well as substituting a
sound in a cvc word in order to read and write a new
word. Finally, for writing the children will be focusing
on opinion pieces, remembering to use correct
capitalization, finger spaces, and punctuation, as well
as sounding out words independently. The children
should be able to represent the beginning and ending
sounds on their own.

Math

Monday, January 19th

Otto Safety Presentation

In math, the children will be designing, classifying, and

analyzing attributes of 2D and 3D shapes. They will
be exploring the following shapes: circle, square,
triangle, rectangle, hexagon, trapezoid, rhombus,
sphere, cone, cube, cylinder, and triangular prism.
They will also be learning vocabulary words such as
faces, sides, and corners, as well as flat,
round, etc.

Wednesday, January 21st

Social Studies

Family Projects Due

Tuesday, January 20th

Spirit Day- Super Hero / Nerd Day

Thursday, January 22nd

Created by Ashley Magee Graphics

ThistleGirlDesigns.com

In Social Studies, our unit will focus on landforms and

maps. We will discuss and identify various landforms,
differentiate between water and land on a globe and
map, as well as discuss direction words. The children
will be creating a map of the school, as well as using
google earth to find their houses! Lastly, the children
will be focusing on map symbols, and citing the
differences between urban and rural areas.

School: Wilbur Elementary

School Address: 4050 Wrangle Hill Rd. Bear, DE
19701
School Phone Number: (302)832-6330 Room
Number: B-1
Class Website: www.msfetters.weebly.com

Letters We Are Learning

Word Wall Words
1. a

14. not

2. and

15. of

3. can

16. on

4. go

17. see

5. get

18. the

6. I

19. to

7. in

20. that

8. is

21. you

9. it

19. he

10. like

20. on

11. me

21. was

12. my

22. for

13. name

Calling All Experts!

Please continue to have your
child work on zippering their
coats and tying their shoes
independently. Also, please
remember to send your child
to school in a heavy winter
coat. If your child is in need of
one, please contact me.

Each week we learn a new letters sound and learn to

identify it when we see it in print. Currently we have
learned or will be learning the following letters:
1. A

6. G

11. N

16. T

2. B

7. H

12. P

17. V

3. D

8. J

13. R

18. W

4. E

9. L

14. S

19. X

5. F

10. M

15. O

20. Y
21. U

Classroom News
We are continuing our work with the Daily 5 for ELA time.
Part of the Daily 5 is to build up stamina so that the
children are being mindful and staying focused while
working quietly. I have been choosing a Stamina Queen
and a Stamina King each day. These Queens and Kings
are students who do exemplary work, take their time, and
know how to extend their work if they finish before the
timer goes off. Ways to help us build your childs
stamina at home, would be to share a book with your
child and read it together, show them how to find
popcorn words in stories that you are reading, show
them how to read a story by looking at the pictures, and
give them time to practice writing and sounding out words
independently. Try to extend their stamina by asking them
what they can do when theyre finished add details to
the pictures, write another sentence, get another book,
etc.

PTA Spirit Night at

Chick-fil-A and Barnes
and Noble 5:30-8pm
and