Room 404 Newsletter
September 11, 2015
Curriculum Updates
In Reading, we are working together to
become a reading community. We are
learning how to participate together in
reading workshop by listening, learning
and sharing with each other. Great
readers listen, share ideas and feelings,
learn information and words, and make
connections to their own lives. We will be
practicing these skills within our reading
community.
Guided Reading began this week. The
children are learning how to rotate
between a variety of stations including;
working with a teacher, read to self, work
on writing, word work and listen to
reading.
The children will chose new leveled take
home books (in the fabric bag) each day.
Please remember that these books should
be read to an adult at home and returned
to school the next day.
We are so excited to see that the home
reading incentive tickets are really
coming in!! Keep up the great work with
reading at home!
In Language Arts, we are focusing on the
components of a sentence. Students have
been evaluating sentences for four main
things. 1. A capital at the beginning of
the sentence. 2. Spaces between each
word. 3. A period at the end of each
sentence. 4. A complete thought. We are
encouraging your children to apply these
skills to their daily journal and classwork.
We have also been working with the first
trimester objectives of beginning and
ending sounds and rhyming.
In Spelling, students have been learning
to recognize and spell the first 13 sight
words. It is really important that these
words are mastered and applied to daily
writing. This Tuesday, your child was
given a set of sight words. Spelling
homework will come home on Monday’s
with the sort. The homework is due
every Friday. 
In math, our first unit consists of
recognizing, representing, writing, and
ordering numbers 0-19. We will continue
to focus on these skills next week.
In Social Studies, we began our first
unit: My School and Family. We are
learning about our community at Isaac
Fox. We have worked on creating and
understanding the reasons for rules in
our community. Next week, we will talk
about the different people that help
make Isaac Fox a terrific place to learn.
General Information
We really enjoyed meeting everyone on
Curriculum night. Please feel free to
contact us with any questions or concerns.
Please remember to check out the Isaac
Fox website for new items, reminders,
list of events and our School Virtual
Backpack which also contains important
Room 404 Newsletter
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information. Also all newsletters and
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Your child should be reading a minimum of
15-20 minutes per day. Please remember
to send in the reading tickets each day.
School Tools:
Having solid social-emotional skills are
just as important as academic skills for
kids to be successful at school. Several
times a month, Mrs. Hope, our social
worker, will come in to highlight a specific
social or emotional skill that is essential
in helping students navigate the school
setting. We will update you on the skills
taught so that you may reinforce them at
home. In conjunction with our social
studies unit, this week Mrs. Hope
explained her role in our school and the
types of skills she works on. In the next
few weeks, she will utilize the book You
Are a Social Detective by Michelle Garcia
Winner to help the students use their
social smarts to demonstrate the
difference between expected and
unexpected behavior in all the places they
play, learn and go.
Please remember to send to school
headphones for your child. They will
need these to utilize the IPad during
We will need them
by Monday, September 14,
2015.
listen to reading.
Reminders:
September 25 ~ No School
September 29-30 ~ Book Fair
September 30 ~ Early Release
Thank you!
Mrs. Sheri Brizzee Mrs. Ellen Finer
Sheri.brizzee@lz95.org Ellen.finer@lz95.org
(847) 540-2828