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Have a wonderful and safe summer!
Read, Relax and HAVE FUN!!!!
Welcome to First Grade - Room 15!
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 HOMEWORK
Week of ,
2009
Monday night due Tuesday
 100 Book Challenge – Required Reading -
read for 15 minutes (1 step); Required Reading -
read for 15 minutes (1 step); Read 15 more minutes (1 more step) - for total of 2 steps;
parents date and initial in each box in Reading Log.
Practice “RETELLING”
using one or more of your 100 Book Challenge books – Remember retelling is telling someone what the story is about in your “own” words; telling all the important details (use sequencing words like first, next, then, last).
Math – Math Home Link
Tuesday night due Wednesday
100 Book Challenge – Required Reading -
read for 15 minutes (1 step); Required Reading -
read for 15 minutes (1 step); Read 15 more minutes (1 more step) - for total of 2 steps;
parents date and initial in each box in Reading Log.
Math – Math Home Link
Wednesday night due Thursday
100 Book Challenge – Required Reading -
read for 15 minutes (1 step); Required Reading -
read for 15 minutes (1 step); Read 15 more minutes (1 more step) - for total of 2 steps;
parents date and initial in each box in Reading Log.
Math – Math Home Link
 All books need to be returned to LMC tomorrow!
Thursday night due Friday
100 Book Challenge – Required Reading -
read for 15 minutes (1 step); Required Reading -
read for 15 minutes (1 step); Read 15 more minutes (1 more step) - for total of 2 steps;
parents date and initial in each box in Reading Log.
Practice “MAIN IDEA” using one or more of your 100 Book Challenge books – Remember to tell someone what the story is about using one or two sentences.
It is important not to give away too many details when you are telling someone the main idea of a story.
The main idea should include important information like characters, setting, problem and solution.
For example, the story is mostly about a pig that falls asleep in a watermelon patch.
Many animals try to wake him up, but the cricket is the only one that can get the pig to wake up!
Math - Home Link
Reminders and Important Information:
 100 Book Challenge -
Take Home Books/Theme High Frequency Words -
THEME BOOKS AND WORDS ARE GOING HOME TODAY. Please read books and review words for Theme -Week 1 throughout this week. These books and words reinforce what the children are learning in the classroom.
High Frequency Words/Zip Cards
- Zip Cards help with reading fluency and high frequency word recognition. The zip cards are the high frequency words in small sentences or phrases. Two sets of zip cards sent home - green set (1st 100 words) and a yellow set (2nd 100 words).
Please continue to practice your "colored" high frequency words (1st 100 - green; 101-150 - blue; 151-200 - yellow) and zip cards each night. If you would like an extra set of words or zip cards or have misplaced a set, please write a note and send in with your child. All High Frequency Words can be found on our class website - click on flashcards. Please continue to practice your "colored" high frequency words and zip cards.
Remember - PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE.
Dismissal Routine
- If your child is going home in a way that is different from their normal routine, please send a note.
Math Home Links
- Please complete assignments as they are assigned on homework sheet.
Website
- Homework and other classroom news/information can be found on Room 15's Webpage -
http://www.yourclasspage.com/6109386500/vontamon.html
How to play Penny Nickel Dime Exchange
Partners put 20 pennies, 10 nickels and 5 dimes in a pile.
Each player rolls a die and collects the number of pennies shown on the die.
(If you don’t have a die, you can use a number spinner from a board game or a deck of cards and just use the numbers on the cards.) When players have at least 5 pennies, they exchange their pennies for a nickel! When players have two nickels, they exchange two nickels for a dime!
We set up a “bank” with pennies, nickels and dimes.
Continue playing until all coins are collected by players. Players count combination of coins - player with the most money WINS!
Practice and have fun!!!!!
REMEMBER TO PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
Our schedule for specials is:
 Monday – Computers
 Tuesday – Music
 Wednesday – Gym – please wear sneakers
 Thursday – LMC/Guidance (return LMC books each week)
 Friday – Art - please send in a smock
Room 15 Homework Survival Tips
*Red Folder and 100 Book Challenge Packet come to school EVERY day*
Written Homework --- RED FOLDER
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Homework Sheet comes home every Monday – KEEP THIS AT HOME
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Written homework will include Math Home Links and Word Work (A few special projects throughout the year)
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Math Home Links can be found in Home Links Workbook – distributed on Back to School Night
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Complete Home Links as they are assigned (for example, if Home Link 1.8 is assigned on Wed. night, then your child should complete Home Link 1.8 and hand it in Thursday)
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Return completed Home Links or any other written homework in
Red Folder
(**name and date should be on all Home Links and any other written homework)
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Homework for the week can be completed in advance.
However, please do not send in the homework until it is due!
PLEASE DO NOT WORK ANY FURTHER THAN THE CURRENT WEEK’S HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS!
Special Projects may be sent in before the due date.
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Bring Red Folder to school each day!
100 BOOK CHALLENGE --
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100 Book Challenge Packet – 4 Books, Folder, Reading Log and Skills Cards for different reading levels (*****4 books go home and come back to school each day!*****)
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Skills cards are for home and school use -- Students can practice words & skills on the skills cards to help with their reading
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Read 100 Book Challenge books for 15 minutes EVERY night --- 15 minutes of reading = 1 step
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Fill out Reading Log – This log will be used both in school and at home.
It is very important that it is returned to school EVERY day..
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Each block on the log represents 15 minutes of reading time (1 step).
The blocks DO NOT represent the number of books your child reads.
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Each time your child reads for 15 minutes, the “Reading Coach” will initial the block and date it.
At school, the reading coach is the teacher; at home the reading coach is a parent or adult in charge.
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Your child will color or draw a small picture in the same block to indicate that they read for required 15 minutes.
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Bring 100 Book Challenge Packet to school each day
THEME TAKE HOME BOOKS/HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS
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These books are in paper form.
They are sent home as we begin a new Theme in our reading program (usually every 3-4 weeks).
Each theme has three books for each week.
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Check the Homework sheet for Theme/Week readings.
For example, read books for Theme 1/Week 3; highlight words that belong to the –at, -an, -it, -ig word families; color the pictures; retell the story to someone at home.
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Check the Homework sheet for additional high frequency word practice.
In addition to green, blue and yellow high frequency words, your child will bring home the high frequency words we are working on in class.
Please practice these words each week.
The Theme and Week can be found at the top of each word page.
Reading/Comprehension Strategies
Strategies are plans that help us understand what we read.
Strategy Instruction
- Good readers use strategies to help them comprehend what they read. These are the strategies that we will focus on this year:
Ø Making Connections - (text to text, text to self, and text to world) Readers pay more attention when they relate to the text. Readers naturally bring their prior knowledge and experience to reading, but they comprehend better when they think about the connections they make between the text, their lives and the larger world.
Ø Asking Questions - Questioning is the strategy that keeps readers engaged. When readers ask questions, they clarify understanding and make meaning. Asking questions is at the heart of thoughtful reading.
Ø Visualizing - Active readers create visual images in their minds based on words they read in text. The pictures they create enhance their understanding.
Ø Making Inferences - Inferring is the intersection of taking what is known, garnering clues from the text, and thinking ahead to make judgment, discern a theme or speculate about what is to come.
Ø Identifying Important Ideas - Thoughtful readers grasp essential ideas and important information when reading. Readers must differentiate between less important ideas and key ideas that are central to the meaning.
Ø Synthesizing Information - Synthesizing involves combining new information with existing knowledge to form an original idea or interpretation. Reviewing, sorting, and sifting important information can lead to new insights that change the way readers think.
Ø Monitor and Repair Understanding - If confusion disrupts meaning, readers need to stop and clarify their understanding. Readers may use a variety of strategies to "fix up" comprehension when meaning goes awry.
REMINDERS:
 Dress for the Weather - The cold weather is upon us! The children go outside for recess - so please dress them for the weather (coats, hats, gloves, mittens, etc.)
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Take Home Books/Theme High Frequency Words
- Theme 4 books and words are going home today.
Please continue to read books and review words for Theme 4-Week 1 throughout this week. These books and words reinforce what the children are learning in the classroom.
The children can color the pictures and highlight sight words and words that belong to the –at, -an, -it, –ig, -ot , -ox , -et, -en, -ug , –ut – ack, –ap, -ick , -ill, -ip and -in word families.
They should keep them at home and PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE.
Zip Cards-
These cards help with reading fluency and high frequency word recognition.
The cards are the first 100 high frequency words in small sentences or phrases.
Practice along with high frequency words.
High Frequency Words – If anyone is interested in an extra copy of the "colored" words please write a note and send in with your child.
An extra set of words will enable you to play games like Memory or Concentration or Fish with your child.
You might also want to keep one set in the car and the other at home.
Remember to choose 5-8 words to work on at a time. These words can also be found on our class webpage - click on Flashcards.
Math Home Links – Students should complete Home Links as they are assigned on the homework sheet and return on the due date.
Dismissal Routine
- If your child is going home in a way that is different from their normal routine, please send a note.
Website – Don’t forget to sign up to receive an email when our class webpage is updated.
You can do this by logging onto the webpage at the website address below and click on “Be Notified”.
Homework, flashcards
and other classroom news/information can be found on Room 15's Webpage -
http://www.yourclasspage.com/6109386500/vontamon.html
Our schedule for specials is:
Monday – Computers
Tuesday – Music
Wednesday – Gym – please wear sneakers
Thursday – LMC/Guidance (return LMC books each week)
Friday – Art - please send in a smock
Math – Home Link
100 BOOK CHALLENGE
Children are reading on their independent level at school and at home every day.
Your child's 100 Book Challenge packet will come home EVERY day. In this packet you will find their 100 Book Challenge folder, books and Reading Log. Please make sure that EVERYTHING is returned to school each day.
Daily Reminders about 100 Book Challenge:
Read for 15-30 minutes every night
15 minutes of reading equals one step
Fill out the Reading Log - Fill in the Step #, Title and Date (REMEMBER -- only one line of your Reading Log should be filled out for 15 minutes of reading)
Have your Reading Coach sign in the box marked "
Coach's Signature
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Check the box marked "
Home
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Keep your books, folder and Reading Log in your 100 Book Challenge packet and return to school EVERY day!
Your Reading Log will be checked each day and you will get new books to take home!
HAVE FUN!!
Things to remember about 100 Book Challenge readers:
Books will be fun!
Books will be easy!
Students should read like they talk!
Readers Read at Their Independent Reading Levels
 Can use what they know to figure out the few hard words by themselves.
Are engaged for long periods of time.
Want to do it again.
Can tell you what they’ve learned from their reading.
Laugh at the funny parts.
Read with expression.
Are relaxed, comfortable, and having fun.
Get into the habit of fluency, understanding and success.
Learn to read by reading.
Please check the website for homework assignments and other classroom news/information
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