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their usernames and passwords. This means fewer books to take home. Many students are getting close to reaching the AR goal. Keep Reading!!!
• In Math, we are starting to learn our multiplication and division tables. Mom and Dad can help us out by having us practice at home, or in the car. A few minutes here or there can really help out! We have also be working on elapsed time and telling time.
• English class has just finished up with possessives. Now we are working with verbs.
• In Science class, we are studying the changes in the Earth. Some of these changes are quick, while others happen very slowly!
• Happy Thanksgiving to everyone from the 4th Grade class
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• Title I - Nancy Cutler, Lynette Grieve, & Bonnie Schimmel
• Our kindergarten Title 1 students are having so much fun using games, activities, and computers as we practice and reinforce the phonics skills of letter recognition, letter names, and letter sounds.
• Our first, second, and third grade Title 1 students also use many different activities, games, and computer games to work on and reinforce their sight word recognition, phoneme segmentation, phonics skills, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, reading fluency, and comprehension.
• This is the time of year that we continue to lay a good foundation for reading skills. We work on nonsense words, letters, sounds, word parts, phoneme segmentation, phonemic awareness, comprehension, inference, fluency and much more. Title students earn chips as they master skills. Then we shop with those chips on Friday's in the Title I store. Reinforcements are an important part of learning. We all like to work and "pay day" is a great day.
• Without a good foundation there will be reading fluency problems. A child may be able to read but if they don't sound fluent in their reading we need to dig deeper. We are quite surprised that older children may not know their letters and sounds with automaticity. Just the simple little things like letters and sounds could be the root of trouble. If you question this take a set of letters from the alphabet and ask your child to put them in order. Then ask them to "touch and talk". Have them say the sounds of the letters quickly in order. It is possible that an older child with fluency problems may make errors. These are the same errors they make when reading! Practice does make perfect.
• Lastly, studies show that 30 minutes of reading practice each day will help a child to become a fluent reader. It is recommended that 20 minutes a day be the stan (Continued on page 7)
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