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Tuesday October 17th 2017

Dear parents and guardians,

Lots of great learning happened in myself and Mrs. Witczak's classes today! We started our day by reviewing our sight words and sight word poems.  We added six new words to our sight word list, so now we have learned 26 words!

We continue to practice our first 20 sight words. The new ones that we learned today are:

- at
- be
- this
- have
- from
- or.

Ask your children if they know what these words say!

After we finished reviewing our sight words, we wrote a new journal entry about what we did on the weekend. The students have been encouraged over the past few weeks to stretch out their words so that they can hear each sound, and then try their best to spell the word. Over the past week, students have been learning to stretch out their ideas, too! We have been spending time talking about descriptive language and asking ourselves, "does this answer all the questions somebody might have?" The students have been working hard to write multiple sentences describing the events of their weekend. We had many students use more than one page for their writing today! WOW!









In math, we continued to work on extending, translating, and creating patterns. See if your child can create a pattern and translate it (using letters and/or numbers!). You can also create a pattern for your child and have them extend it.


Reminders:

- Tomorrow, October 18th, is picture day!
- There will be a lockdown drill on Thursday. We will go over expectations and procedures with students before the lockdown begins.
- There is an assembly on Friday morning from 8:30 - 9:15. Parents are welcome to attend!



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