Great Start!

Well, 5 days down and 175 to go!! We've had a great start to the year!  I'm so excited to see all the reading and writing that has been going on in Room 226! We started practicing  our STAMINA this week! In case you've heard that word from your children, I wanted to explain that we are practicing parts of our DAILY 5 Reading which will provide lots of practice for reading fluency and comprehension.  The children LOVE saying the word "Stamina"!  During this time of our day, I will spend a few minutes one-on-one with each child once or twice a week and focus on his/her reading weakness.  It would be a great idea to make sure your child reads at least 10 minutes every night before bed and it would be even better if you let them read aloud to you so that they may practice fluency and reading with expression. Be looking for pictures of our reading practice.  I will be posting them this weekend.  You will see them "Reading to Self" and "Reading to Someone".

Well, school hasn't even started yet and I've already received my first parent phone call!! :) (hehehe) Luckily, she is one of my dear teacher friends who wanted to let me know I forgot some very important dates on my letters I sent home to the students.  We had several pages to send at once and I guess I just assumed the dates for Parent Orientation (Thursday, Aug. 16 at 7pm) and Meet and Greet (Friday, Aug. 17 at 10:30) were on one of them.  So sorry for the mistake!! I also had planned on posting my class list, but I am not allowed to for now.  I must wait and make sure all parents are ok with the idea at Parent Orientation.  Can't wait to meet/see you all!