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November News
From Mr.
Mauntler’s room
Reading
We have slowly
begun our Guided Reading program. One to three days a week your child
will meet in a small group with me to read books at his/her
instructional level. In these groups we will be practicing our fluency,
word attack skills, phonics, and comprehension. We will continue to read
stories as a whole group, as well as poems that incorporate phonics. We
work on comprehension, real/fantasy, cause/effect, predicting,
sequencing, main idea/details, and many more skills. This month we will
be working mainly on predicting, comprehension, cause/effect,
sequencing, and plot.
Writing/Spelling
We have been
writing where your child and I develop writing skills through one-to-one
interaction and group instruction during journal time. We will develop a
spelling list from the conferences that we hold together and the
assignments they have turned in to me. Your child should be bringing
home a spelling list every week to ten days. Please look on the homework
assignment sheet for spelling test times and study nights. Have your
child practice spelling the words to you and use them in a sentence.
Also, send the spelling list in their homework folder back to school
each day.
Math
We are beginning
unit 3. We will be working primarily with counting change, buying things
with coins, telling time, and place value. Please try to find time once
in a while to have your child practice counting change.
Homework
It is very
important that your child complete his/her homework each night. It is my
intention that the homework serves to help teach responsibility. I feel
it is their responsibility to get their sheet signed and returned to
school, but, please help to remind your child that the homework sheet
must be signed and returned each day. However, if for some reason the
homework does not get finished, please do not sign the sheet. Instead
write the excuse in one of the spaces. I understand completely that some
nights it just isn’t feasible for the homework to be completed (soccer
games, visits from grandparents, family activities, etc.). If you ever
have any questions or concerns about an assignment I send home please
write me a note on the homework sheet or call me here at school.
Book Orders
I will try
to send home a book order every other month. Please do not feel
pressured to buy any of these books.
It is
easiest for me if you can pay for the books by writing out a check to
the book order company. If this is not possible, it will still be okay
to send cash.
Halloween Party
Thank you so much
to all the parents for such lovely costumes. Thank you especially to the
parents who sent snacks and helped in the classroom.
Parent/Teacher Conferences
Parent/Teacher
conferences are scheduled for November 24th (Tuesday) from
5-8 p.m. and November 25th from 8-11 a.m. Please call Mary
Bergren to schedule a time you can come in for a conference. If you can
not, or prefer not, to meet at those times, please call Mary anyway and
she will schedule a different day/time. OR you can schedule with me
directly.
Web Pages
If you haven’t
seen our web pages, please go to www.onekama.k12.mi.us/. There are
several links to interesting places in Onekama and Onekama School. To
see what our class has been up to, go to the elementary 09-10 link, find
my name and click on it and you’ll be at our “home” page. |