Our reading groups are up and running. This means your child will bring home a leveled book every day. It is very important for children to read every day at this stage in development. How many times have you heard the phrase practice makes perfect. Just like practicing for any sport or activity…the more they read the more accurate and fluent they become. Use the support information that is in their RED folders to help guide them as they read.

Unfortunately, there just isn’t enough time in our day for me to meet with every group, so there will be times when your child brings home the same book. This is actually a good thing! Reading familiar books helps build confidence as well as fluency. To help build a love of reading, I also send home “free choice” books. These are books the kids are interested in and have chosen themselves. Most of the time I will try and send these home over the weekend.

The kids will get new spelling words this week and will be tested over the last 10 words on Friday. New spelling words: be, this, from, I, have

Mrs. Goodwin