Whitleys Weekly Wrap-Up

Week of October 3October 7, 2016

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Harvest Festival is quickly approaching. Please start collecting items for

Grandmothers Corner. Items can include home baked goodies, canned
vegetables and preserves, homemade crafts, etc. The Harvest Festival is the
largest fund-raiser for the PTO. The money raised goes to support the Teachers
Requests for needed items in the classrooms. Please sell your raffle tickets and
donate items for Grandmothers Corner and work your shift at the mini-carnival.
Please be sure to send in the $10 for the silent auction basket and game repair that
the room mothers requested earlier and a bag of candy.
The first few weeks of school the work has been a review of things the students
had in preschool. I am sure you have noticed the work is getting harder and the
pace is getting faster. Please remind your child the importance of paying
attention.
PLEASE check your childs folder on Friday afternoon for the newsletter. Look
over the newsletter and if there is something missing or you do not understand,
please let me know on Monday morning. I will send home a hard copy that has
any worksheets that are necessary for homework for the following week and I will
send an e-mail with the newsletter attached but it will not have the worksheets
attached. They will only be attached to the hard copy in the folder. Also, I post
the newsletter to my website.
Please help me with my record keeping by putting your childs name on any
envelopes, papers, and forms that you send to school. Many times as I collect
things from the folders I put them in piles on my desk and sort and take care of
whatever business with them later in the day. So I do not know from whose
folder I got them.

ASSIGNMENTS:
Nightly Read and record books on your Pizza Hut reading log.
Monday Night (October 10) Do that attached handwriting practice paper, Lower case g
#1. Return completed paper on Tuesday, October 11th. Be sure to return
your library book so you can get a new book.
Tuesday Night (October 11) Review the sounds and formations for the
letters Cc, Oo, and Gg. We will do evaluation work on Wednesday, October
12.
Wednesday Night (October 12) Do the attached Gg Practice papers #2 and #3. Return
completed papers on Thursday, October 13th.
Use the guide at the end of the newsletter to help your child through each formation.
The lower case gs is one of the hardest letters we will learn to write.
Thursday Night (October 13 )Find a picture of something that ends with the
/g/ sound of Gg; like the ending sound of dog. Cut it out, write your
name on the back and bring it to school on Friday, October 14th.

Use the following to help guide you through each letters formation.
The little, lower case g is one of the hardest letters of our alphabet to form.
It is one continuous motion (one stroke). You do not pick your pencil up.
Capital G Begin just below the top (red) line and go up and touch the top (red) line and
then go around and down to the bottom (green) line and up to the middle (yellow)
line. Do not pick your pencil up but make a straight line on the middle (yellow)
line from right to left. It looks like a C with a tongue in its mouth. The Capital G
begins just like the capital C and capital O.
Lower case g begin just below the middle (yellow) line and go up and touch the
middle (yellow) line and down to the bottom (green) line and continue back to
your starting point. Do not pick your pencil up. Make a straight line up to the
middle (yellow) line and then retrace that line down and continue down pass the
bottom (green) and put a tail going to the left. This is done in one continuous
stroke.