Monday, October 7, 2019

Weekly Update 10/8-10/11

Hello families!
We had a great time at Jog-A-Thon last week! Our school raised over $12,000! 🎉 This is a major fundraiser that our PTA puts on to give money back to our school, so thank for your donations!

Parent Volunteers

Last week our parent volunteers started (YAY! 🎉) I am so thankful for your help! If you haven't signed up and are interested in volunteering in our class, you can sign up anytime throughout the year by clicking HERE to sign up. If at any time you are not able to come during your scheduled volunteer time, please email me at newton.kelsey@westada.org to let me know you are not able to come. I know we all have busy lives, so I understand when schedules conflict.

Box Tops

We are still collecting box tops! If you have any box tops, you can send them to school with your child. 😊 Box tops helps raise money for our school and the class that earns the most, wins a party!

Sight Words Assessment

At the end of this week, your child will be assessed on the sight words they have been learning since school has started. These are the sight words that are sent home every week on their homework paper.  If you would like to see all of the sight words click HERE to see the sight word list. Please review the words with your child this week to make sure they are ready for the assessment. Building fluency with sight words helps tremendously to make them strong readers. They will need to be able to read these words in 3 seconds or less. Thank you for your support!

Spelling Test

This Friday your child will take their first spelling test. The spelling words were sent home on Friday (short u).

Subway Day

Subway Day is coming to Willow Creek again on Friday, October 18th. This week your child will be bringing home a Subway order form. If you want to buy subway for your child make sure to turn in the Subway order form by Thursday, October 10th. If you would like to join your child for Subway day, they have extra order forms at the office. *Reminder -- you are welcome to join your child any day for lunch. Our lunch is from 12:15-12:35.

This Week We Are Learning...

Reading Comprehension
*We are learning the difference between fiction & non-fiction texts.
* We are learning how to read informational texts so that we can answer questions about the text.
* We are learning how to use non-fiction text features so we can understand the text better.
Word Study
We are learning to spell and read the short u pattern so we can become better readers and writers.
Writing
We are learning how to write a fiction story.
Math
We are learning addition strategies so can be more efficient solving addition equations. We will be learning about the doubles & doubles plus 1 strategy.

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