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11/17/2008 12:23 PM |
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Listening
Comprehension |
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In The Talented Clementine,
Clementine, who is unable to come up with a talent for the talent show,
discovers that her attention to detail (sometimes a liability) has become an
asset when she is called upon by the principal to help “direct” the talent
show in the absence of her teacher.
Clementine’s quick thinking keeps the show going on, despite some
major difficulties, and earns her compliments as well as a real sense of
pride in herself! |
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Phonological
Awareness |
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The Leap Frog Code Word Caper
video was a huge success and several of my students are applying the rules
about silent “e” and “when two vowels go walking, the first one does the
talking”. Way to go, class!! During the next two weeks we will be
working on the /ch/ and /sh/
sounds as well as new words that end in “_ft” and “_sk”.
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In reading we are concentrating
on possessive forms (created with “apostrophe s”), plurals (created with “s”),
details, and alphabetical order by first letter. We will also be using our November words
for alphabetizing and playing bingo.
We only have three more units in our reader before we will take the
second half of the Mastery Test and go into our next book! Next week we will be doing a Thanksgiving
crossword puzzle, reading a minibook on
Thanksgiving and creating words out of the letters in “Happy Thanksgiving”! |
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Spelling |
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We began a new unit in spelling
with a word preview on Monday. The
purpose of the Word Preview is to focus on the spelling skill of looking at each
letter of a word (in contrast to reading skills which often involve
seeing words as a whole). We
will continue the week with “Stretch It” (embellishing a basic sentence with
details), “Fix It” (proofreading), the two sounds of letter “s” (/s/ as in “this”
and /z/ as in “his”), and the configuration or shape of words. |
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Handwriting/Writing
Skills |
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We are continuing our “Proof-It”
activities and our work with nouns (words that name people, places or things)
and adjectives (words that describe).
Some of my students have almost completed their review of lowercase
cursive letters and are ready to work on writing capital cursive letters! |
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Reminders/Homework |
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This week I will be out of town
on Thursday and Friday. I have
prepared extensively for my sub and anticipate that things will go well. Although I do not plan on telling my class
in advance, I did want you to know.
Since we have only two days of class next week, I have included the
skills we will be covering next week in this update. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and know that
I am truly thankful for the opportunity to work with each of your
children. They are a blessing to me
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