Ms.

Boudreau’s November
Home/School Connection
A newsletter connecting home and school environments
Class Web Site: http://jenniferboudreau.weebly.com

Date: Nov. 24, 2020 We wrapped up the book on Ancient Egypt Mummies in the Morning.
After the Thanksgiving break, our next background building week, we
will be diving into a study of Pirates. Lots of time will be spent talking
about pirate ships and the life of pirates. This is a highly engaging
topic for kids.
Spotlight Activity: Word Building & CVC Words
We have added two new activities to our learning arsenal.. We
started exploring patterns in words and how new words can be built
CALENDAR with these patterns. For example, -ing is a common word pattern and
REMINDERS by changing just the initial sound we can make lots of new words like
sing, wing, ring and thing! We practice our patterns by writing the
School Calendar Can be words on white boards and reading the words we make with each
found at
pattern. The more we practice lots of patterns, the more we will start
http://aes.seekonk.sharps
chool.com/calendar to see them in words we are trying to read and write. We are also
practicing how to read CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words: for
November Birthdays example) bat, fed, sit, mop, and tub. We try all of the sounds for the
Morgan M- Nov. 4 letters individually and then blend them together. We also use the
Harper- Nov.5
knowledge of those ending chunks too-so, if we can read /b/-/at/ for

December Birthdays bat, we can also read /c/-/at/ and /r/-/at/. It amazing to see their
Ms. Boudreau- Dec. 30 faces light up as they realize they are starting to really read words
themselves!

WISH LIST WHAT ARE WE DOING IN SCHOOL?
* Sandwich sized Theme: Ancient Egypt– Mummies in the Morning
baggies What Reading & Writing Skills are being practiced?
* Cleaning Wipes For reading please see the spotlight section above. For writing, I
* Any color card stock would like to see all of the children at the IS (initial sounds) level.
paper Your child should be able to draw a picture and write a sentence that
Thank you for the
relates to the main idea of the chapter that has been read. He/she
donations from last
week!
should make one line for each word written, and then write at least
the beginning sound of each word. This should be completed
independently without teacher assistance. If there is an X or /
WEB CONNECTIONS through the IS at the top of the paper, this means he/she has had help
http://jenniferboudrea to complete this task. We continue to work on listening for the
u.weebly.com ending sounds of words and have begun to include vowels too!
We have been practicing the short vowel sounds such as /a/ in
Try these games… What Math skills are being practiced? We have: reviewed shapes and
Math- Name The their attributes, made a graph of our favorite colors, continued
Shape & Number learning ways to make 10, compared heavy & light, played Monster
Bingo (11-20) Squeeze, used dice to Roll and Record, worked with number set and
ELA- Short A Machine have compared representations of numbers. We have been busy!
or Starfall

 Ms. Boudreau’s November
Home/School Connection
A newsletter connecting home and school environments
Class Web Site: http://jenniferboudreau.weebly.com

Date: Nov. 24, 2020 EXTENSIONS AT HOME:

• Ask your child if he/she can reread the Mummies in the
Morning chapter summaries to someone. Talk about what
CALENDAR happened in the story. Ask your child, “What was your favorite
REMINDERS part?” “What did you find interesting?”
• Practice writing letters- uppercase and lowercase.
See page 1 for Calendar
Reminders • Review numerals 0-20.
• How high can you count? Can you make it to 20? 50? 100?

Web Connections: Be sure to check out our class website for lots of
games to play. There are many links to sites you can use to practice
skills from school. Also, there are many photographs from our
exciting times in October (and before), photos of the different Magic
Tree House (MTH) stories/ adventures we have read. This site is a
great way to share what your child is doing with loved ones that are
not local. Feel free to share the web page with family to keep them “in
the loop.” I hope you are enjoying the site, and if you have any
suggestions on how to make it better, please let me know. If you use
any other FREE websites or resources online that you think would
benefit the class, please share those with me via email or Seesaw and
I’ll gladly add those to the website also.