Happy holidays! Wishing you a relaxing and joyful winter break! This is the season for snuggling up with a good book!
Happy reading,
Mrs. Chinn

Bug Jug

Bug Jug

2nd Grade Double Dose Reading

After reading, Hey Little Ant, students wrote about what they thought the boy should do. Should he squish the ant or not? What would you do?

5th Grade Double Dose Reading

This week we worked on making inferences. Making inferences allow us to draw our own conclusions based on the evidence in the story. We are becoming reading detectives!

Route to Reading-Third Grade

This week we explored more cvce (consonant vowel consonant e) words adding o, e, and u to our memory bank. Ask your child to tell you about "magic" e. Our new story is Skull Cave.

Route to Reading-First Grade

Students expressed their artistic side this week by creating four pictures. Three of the pictures had the same sound and one had a different sound. Then they challenged their peers to determine the picture that did not belong.

cherry, chair, chocolate, watermelon
Which picture begins with a different sound?

Route to Reading-Kindergarten

Kindergarten's favorite activity this week was using witch fingers to point to each word in a sentence. We also previewed the next skill syllables. Students enjoyed hopping through the hallway on our homemade hopscotch board.

Route to Reading-Third Grade

This week third grade students reviewed vowel sounds and learned about magic e (silent e). We looked for patterns in words by pointing to the vowel by using a v sign with our index and middle finger. Next we read a story titled Sam and Kate. Students highlighted words with the silent e pattern (vce), read the words and then practiced the story for fluency.

Route to Reading-First Grade

First Grade students are working on identifying initial sounds in words. We learned the national sign language signs for same and different. Ask your child to show the signs!

Route to Reading-Kindergarten

This week we learned about concepts and terms like first and last, same and different, and directionality (moving our finger from left to right). We had a blast making silly sentences, reading them to our friends, illustrating them and finally counting the words.

2nd Grade Double Dose Reading

This week 2nd grade students reviewed short vowel sounds /o/ and /a/ . We tasted olives (/o/), read a poem about popcorn, practiced sound blending, and wrote letters in purple sand.

5th Grade Double Dose

This week 5th graders experienced two new reading computer programs, Read Naturally and Lexia. Check your child's yellow folder for directions on how to download the Lexia program at home for free!

Parents-Please complete and return the Double Dose Information Sheet by Friday. Thanks!

Route to Reading

Tuesday, September 21st I will be at the Kindergarten Curriculum Night to discuss, "Route to Reading."

Welcome back! Students, don't forget to turn in your summer reading calendars. Bring them to my room, 200c (in the library).

July

I hope everyone is having a fun and relaxing summer! Don't forget to read, read, read! Enjoy a great book today!