Room 102 Class Letter, 10/6/08

Monday, October 6, 2008

Dear Families,

Today the students learned about a new task that will be assigned for homework each week: spelling words. These spelling words are a part of our Word Study in Reading Workshop. Each week, I will choose 5 words to focus on for spelling. These words come from the students’ writing pieces – words they are using in their writing but need help spelling.

Each week for homework the students will do at least 2 of the activities (of course, they are welcome to do more! ) described on the spelling activity sheet that we reviewed today. This activity sheet should stay in the green home folders. I am asking caregivers to give their children a short spelling quiz at the end of the week on the words. You can sign the homework schedule indicating that you gave your child a quiz.

Thank you to our Flat Stanley chaperones! Following are some other highlights from the short week. In writing workshop, we discussed endings for our small moment stories. In reading workshop, we sorted the 3 sounds of –ed and continued our discussion of how making text-to-self connections helps readers better understand stories and characters’ feelings and actions. In social studies the students learned the parts of community governments and began making “brochures” describing a government service. The Unit 1 Math assessment the children took last week will be returned mid-week.

One quick reminder: There is no school on Thursday in observance of Yom Kippur.

As always, thank you for your support!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Hungate