Open Court Reading: This year, we started our new literacy curriculum, Open Court Reading.  This is an excellent curriculum that is designed around the science of reading. 

Review:  Over the next couple of weeks, we will be reviewing our letters and sounds, working on proper grip and letter formation, understanding rhyme, and practice blending and segmenting sounds. 

Spelling: This year, students will be learning the rules behind each of the spelling patterns.  Spelling isn’t about memorizing a list of words, but more about understanding the pattern of those words. 

Writing: Students will be writing to a prompt, using sentence stems and drawing pictures that represent what they are writing about. 

Reading: we will be doing whole group reading working on fluency, understanding rhyme and developing vocabulary.

Open Court Reading:  We are starting our new literacy curriculum, Open Court Reading, this year.  This is a wonderful curriculum that is designed around the science of reading. 

Review:  Over the next couple of weeks, we will be reviewing our letters and sounds, working on proper grip and letter formation, understanding rhyme, and practice blending and segmenting sounds. 

Spelling: This year, students will be learning the rules behind each of the spelling patterns.  Spelling isn’t about memorizing a list of words, but more about understanding the pattern of those words. 

Writing: Students will be writing to a prompt, using sentence stems and drawing pictures that represent what they are writing about. 

Reading: Over the next couple of weeks, we will be doing more whole group reading working on fluency, understanding rhyme, and developing vocabulary.