Aesop’s fable, The Lion and the Mouse was the inspiration for illustrator Jerry Pinkney’s newly published book.  The beautiful paintings  unfold a story of friendship.  Together we took turns telling the story.  When finished Ronan asked, “But where are the words?” and yes, the story was not read.  Aubrey suggested, “After the pictures were...
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Mrs. Pechette’s Class Homework for the week of September 29th-October 5th. 1.  October Calendar of Activities 2.  At Home Reading Log 3.  Literacy:  Family Times 4.  Math:  Numbers Everywhere
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Perhaps in the excitement of Back to School Night, you missed the opportunity to sign up to help in the classroom.  Parents or Grandparents are needed to serve as Reading Buddies for our emerging readers.  This takes about an hour a week.  It is also helpful to have a parent in the classroom during...
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Our first days were spent learning big routines.  These past few days we’ve focused on some of the little routines like using a glue stick (remembering to recap), or liquid white glue (little dots only).  When it was time to investigate sunflowers in science, we learned how to use and take care of a...
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Gardening this week was exciting as we tasted sugar peas and fennel.  We gave compost to the asparagus.  In the Butterfly Garden we looked for insects and new flowers.  We found lots of weeds!  During the next few days Mrs. Lundeberg will spend time with each child looking back at their art and making...
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Observations of our mealworms continues to fascinate us.  We have learned to identify the body parts of insects and are using that information and book research to help us make scientific drawings of many different kinds of insects.  Next we are using our creative thinking to draw insects with chalk.  Blending chalk colors is...
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, May 26th 1. May Calendar of Activities 2.Reading Log 3. Literacy: aw and au, short e (ea), drawing conclusions 4. Adding and Subtracting
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, May 19th 1. May Calendar of Activities 2. Reading Log 3. Literacy: oi and oy, suffixes er and or, main idea 4. Math: addition
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, May 12th. 1. May Calendar of Activities 2. Reading Log 3. Literacy: vowel sound (00) in book, endings (s, ed, or ing), compare and contrast 4.  Math: addition facts
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, May 5th. 1.  May Calendar of Activities 2.  Reading Log 3.  Literacy: ou, syllables, sequence of events 4.  Math: addition
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, April 21st. 1. April Calendar of Activities 2. Reading Log 3. Literacy: suffixes (ly,ful) vowels in moon, cause and effect
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, April 14th. 1.  April Calendar of Activities 2.  Reading Log 3.  Literacy: compound words, vowels ew, ue, ui, character setting, plot 4.  Math: missing addends
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The fairy houses are finished and awaiting fairies, which are starting to appear.  Ella’s new fairy friend is Alice and Elf Man is ready to move into Alex’s house.  This week we will first be making a character map about our fairies and then a story map including characters, setting, problem, events, and solution....
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, March 31st. 1.  April Calendar of Activities 2.  Reading Log 3. Literacy: long o, (oa,ow), three letter blends, author’s purpose 4.  Math: addition, sums to 14
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Homework for March 17th-30th. READ, READ, READ. Two weeks of a reading log went home.  Enjoy the break.
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, March 10th. 1.  March Calendar of Activities 2.  Reading Log 3. Literacy: long e (ea), changing y to i before adding an ending, theme 4.  Math: Geometry
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Sent home Tuesday, March 3rd. 1.  March Calendar of Activities 2.  Reading Log 3. Literacy: long a(ai, ay), drawing conclusions, posessives(s’ or ‘s) 4. Math: geometry
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Sent home on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1.  February Calendar of Activities 2.  Weekly Reading Log 3.  Literacy: er and est, dge sounding as j, sequence of events 4.  Math: Addition with missing addends (9+___= 16)
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, February 17th. 1.  February Calendar of Activities 2.  Reading Log 3.  Literacy: er,ir,ur, contractions ‘s,’ve,’re, drawing conclusions 4.  Math: solid shapes
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Homework sent home on Tuesday, February 10th 1.  February Calendar of Activities  2.  Reading Log 3. Literacy: ed,ing, ar, beginning, middle, and end of a story 4.  Math: less than, greater than
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Homework sent home on February 3, 2009 1.  January Calendar Activities 2.  Home Reading Log 3.  Literacy: ending-es,plural-es,or and ore, Theme 4.  Math: addition to fourteen
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January 20, 2009 1.  January Calendar of Activities 2.  Nightly Reading: Reading Log 3.  Literacy: vowel sounds of y, long vowels, compare and contrast, alphabetical order 4.  Math: money, names of each(penny,nickel,dime,quarter), and adding together coins
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