1st Grade: We will continue to work on the short vowels, digraphs, blends, and long vowels. We will continue to reinforce sight words through activities and guided reading. We are working on new vocabulary and story comprehension and structure including important Reading skills such as character traits, main idea, and inferences, Please continue to read at home and practice sight words!

2nd Grade: We will continue to work on the short vowels, digraphs, blends, and long vowels. We will continue to reinforce sight words through activities and guided reading. We are working on new vocabulary and story comprehension. Please continue to read at home and practice sight words!

3rd Grade: We are starting the month taking Terra Nova tests. We will continue reading novels in small groups. We will discuss story structure, story on comprehension, including critical thinking story questions, and practice fluency. We are working important Reading skills such as main idea, summarizing, point of view, and character traits. We are working on using a variety of graphic organizers to organize thoughts. Please continue to read at home!

4th Grade: We are starting the month taking Terra Nova tests. We will continue reading novels in small groups. We will discuss story structure, story comprehension, inferences, including critical thinking story questions, and fluency. We are working on important Reading Skills such as main idea, theme, summarizing, point of view, and character traits. We are working on using a variety of graphic organizers to organize thoughts. Please continue to read at home!

5th Grade: We are starting the month taking Terra Nova tests. We will continue reading novels in small groups. We will discuss story structure, story comprehension, including critical thinking story questions, and fluency. Please continue to read at home!

2nd Grade: We will continue to work on the short vowels, digraphs, blends, and long vowels. We will continue to reinforce sight words through activities and guided reading. We are working on new vocabulary and story comprehension. Please continue to read at home and practice sight words!

3rd Grade: We will continue reading novels in small groups. We will discuss story structure, story on comprehension, including critical thinking story questions, and practice fluency. We are working important Reading skills such as main idea, summarizing, point of view, and character traits. We are working on using a variety of graphic organizers to organize thoughts. Please continue to read at home!

4th Grade: We will continue reading novels in small groups. We will discuss story structure, story comprehension, inferences, including critical thinking story questions, and fluency. We are working on important Reading Skills such as main idea, theme, summarizing, point of view, and character traits. We are working on using a variety of graphic organizers to organize thoughts. Please continue to read at home!

5th Grade: We will continue reading novels in small groups. We will discuss story structure, story comprehension, including critical thinking story questions, and fluency. Please continue to read at home!

I hope you had a nice Christmas! Happy New Year 2015!

1st Graders:We will continue to work on the short vowels, digraphs, blends, and long vowels. We will continue to reinforce sight words through activities and guided reading. We are working on new vocabulary and story comprehension. Please continue to read at home and practice sight words!

2nd Graders:We will continue to work on short vowels, digraphs, blends, and long vowels. We will continue to reinforce sight words through activities and guided reading. We are working on new vocabulary and story comprehension, including critical thinking story questions. We are working on our reading fluency. Please continue to read at home and practice sight words!

3rd Graders:We will continue reading novels in small groups. We will discuss story structure, story comprehension, including critical thinking story questions, and fluency. We are working on main ideas, summarizing, point of view, and character traits. We are working on using a variety of graphic organizers to organize thoughts. Please continue to read at home!

4th Graders:We will continue reading novels in small groups. We will discuss story structure, story comprehension, including critical thinking story questions, and fluency. We are working on plot, theme, character traits, and main idea. Please continue to read at home!

5th Graders:We will continue reading novels in small groups. We will discuss story structure, story comprehension, including critical thinking story questions, and fluency. Please continue to read at home!

1st Grade: We are working on spelling and reading short vowel words and word families. We are working on beginning and ending sounds and finding matching rhymes. Sight words learning is incorporated into hands-on activities. Sight words cannot be sounded out easily like other words and need recognition through seeing them. Sight words make up a huge amount of text from the stories we read. Knowing sight words helps the students read stories easier. This is why it is important to keep practicing them! We are working hard with our Reading. Keep practicing at home!

2nd Grade: We are working on spelling cvc (consonant, vowel, consonant words) of short vowels. We are working on spelling long vowel words as well. Sight words practice is incorporated into hands-on activities. We are working on our Reading, fluency and comprehension in guided Reading. Keep practicing at home!

3rd Grade: We are Reading through “100 Dresses”, practicing our Reading, fluency, learning new vocabulary and comprehension. After we will start new novel Reading circles and continue to work on comprehension, Reading, fluency, learning new vocabulary and comprehension.

4th Grade: We are Reading through “Dear Mr. Henshaw” practicing our Reading, fluency, learning new vocabulary and comprehension. We are focusing on Inferences throughout the story. After the students finish this story, we will start Reading literature circles using a variety of novels such as “Mr. Popper’s Penguins.”

5th Grade: The students are working on Tall Tales and comparing them to other stories. They are learning about similarities and differences between the two types of stories. The students are working on their Reading, fluency, comprehension, and learning new vocabulary.

Have your students read every day! For the younger grade students, ask questions about the story about the main characters, setting, and what happened in the beginning, middle and ending of the story.

Grade 1: We are working on beginning and ending sounds, rhymes, word families, sight words, and short vowels through texts, poems, and hands-on activities. We are learning about Daily 5 Program by introducing one component a week. We are currently working on finding a “Right-Fit Books” for us and “Read to Self”. We are becoming good readers!

Grade 2: The children are working with their Weekly Spelling Sorts and reviewing The Daily 5 routine. We are reviewing the Daily 5 Program by introducing one component a week. We are currently working on finding a “Right-Fit Books” for us and “Read to Self”. We are becoming good readers!

Grades 3-5: The children are working with their Weekly Spelling Sorts. We are reviewing and working on the Daily 5 Program by introducing one component a week. We are currently working on finding a “Right-Fit Books” for us and “Read to Self”. We are becoming good readers! We will start reading a class novel. We will discuss comprehension and story elements throughout the book.

Home Activities: It is important that children read for 20-30 minutes daily.