A booklet entitled Investigations
at Home, which accompanies the Math Investigation portion of our math
curriculum, will be sent home in September. I will send a copy with
each child. The suggested activities may not be appropriate for all
students, however they give an incite into the group activities that we
do in class. Feel free to use these activities with your child at
home.
The week of September 1-4 read pages 9-11 which covers
attendance.
The week of September7-11 read pages 34-35 which covers comparing towers.
The week of September 14-18 read pages 14-15 which covers calendar activities.
REMINDER ABOUT HOMEWORK
As the message below states, reading is your child's homework each night. Mrs. Motti sends home reading log sheets at least monthly. You should be sending in a list of 25 books each month. Your child gets to put up a sticker on his/her reading chart for each book that he/she reads. This is a big deal for the children. Please help them to be able to participate in this activity. Reading with your child each night will help ensure your child's school success.
The most important homework your child can do is read or be read to. Our goal is to encourage in your child a lifelong love of reading. You play the most important role as a positive model. Reading together involves reading to your child, with your child or listening to your child read. As your child becomes an emergent and confident reader, it is more inportant that ever to continue to read to them. The memories of reading and creating stories will last forever. I would like a list of at least 25 books each month that you have read to your child or your child has read to you. This is less than one book each night. What better way to end the day, than quiet time with a book at bedtime. Asking your child questions about the story or asking him/her to retell the story helps develop comprehension skills necessary to progress as an independent reader.
