Ms. Miller

Week of February 1-5

Hello Everyone,

  I hope everyone had a fun weekend. This week in our reading block we are starting the story Crossing the Street. This story focus on procedures and using transistion words such as first, second, third, ect.  I am sending home the story on Monday and please read it with your child. They will be having their comprehension test on Friday.  This nine week in our writer's workshop, the students will be writing to inform. This week they will be working on creating venn diagrams and identifying verbs in sentences.

Conference Week

Just a reminder that the students will be getting out of school at 12:10 for conferences. This week in our reading block the students will be taking their comprehension review test on All About Horses on Wednesday. Please make sure to review the story with your children. Also this week students will  be introduced to the character Braidy. This character is a fun way to help the students with reading comprehension skills and writing. I will be sending home more information about this new program next week.

Week of January 11th

Hello Everyone,

 This week in reading we are continuing to read Farmers Grays Morning. Please make sure you read this story at home with your child. We have a unit assessment at the end of each story and I want all the children to do their best. In our phonics unit, the students will continue working on silent consent letters or bonus letters. The students are grasping this concept very rapidly. For this nine weeks of school, the focus in our writers workshop is learning how to write to inform. The students will begin this process by learning how to brainstorm using graphic organizers. We are also continuing to work on nouns and will been discussing verbs in the next couple of weeks.

Welcome Back

I hope everyone had a fun and relaxing winter break as did I. We will begin our week back to school by reviewing what we had previously learned before the break. We will be finishing our unit on fantasy stories and the students will be creating their own by the end of the week. In reading, we will be starting a new unit on silent consonant sounds. We will be working on this for the next couple of weeks. An additional note, I will be starting to send home review worksheets to start preparing you child for the CRCT. I will be giving these out on Mondays and should be returned on Friday. If you ever have any questions please feel free to e-mail at lauren1.miller@cobbk12.org