Friday, September 6, 2019

An information package was sent home today.  Please check student backpacks.  Some of you picked it up last night at the Open House. Please go through the package and return the forms to the school.  This will allow the office to update information and organize the start of a new school year. 

This week we have learned some new vocabulary that we will be using throughout the school year. 

You are encouraged to have discussion at home about the following topics.

Home Discussions:

1. What is whole body listening? (answer: this is when you listen with your entire body.  Your eyes, ears, mouth, hands, arms, legs, and feet)

2. Can you show me what whole body listening looks like?

3. What are the four zones? (answer: blue, green, yellow, red)

4. How would you feel if you are in the blue zones? (answer: tired, sad, bored)

    How would you feel if you are in the green zone? (answer: calm, focused, happy)

    How would you feel if you are in the yellow zone? (answer: silly, frustrated, worried)

    How would you feel if you are in the red zone? (answer: mad, angry, excited)

5. What is the ready strategy you learned this week?  (answer: Look at the picture - Eagle Eye)

6. Can you explain what eagle eye is? (answer: Before you start reading you should look at all of the pictures in the book.  We call this a picture walk.  This helps us see what the story is about.  It will help us decode unfamiliar words)

7.  What do you need to remember when writing a sentence?  (answer: begin with a capital letter and end with a period)