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Ms. Glidewell’s
Class  
January 3rd-
January 5th 2018
Dear Parents,
This week in Reader’s Workshop, we will increase reading
comprehension by Recognize Story Structure (Stories have
structure, or a way in which the things in the story happen. For
example, stories have a beginning, middle, and end.) Identify Plot
and Character (Following what the characters, or people, or
animals, do can help readers understand the story better. What
happens to the characters is called the plot.) Informational Text:
Expository (text that explains or gives information; often contains
photographs).
This week in Writer’s Workshop we will be working on a
winter “How to”. The title will be How to Build a Snowman. In
Math we will continue decomposing numbers and making
combinations of numbers.
For Social Studies we will be talking about January
holidays and winter. In Science, we will continue our scientist
of the day lessons.
Scientist of the Day
Your child was assigned a day and a project. Your child will do the
experiment at home and then bring in the materials and explain it
and do it with the class. Projects will begin Nov. 27th and end Jan.
8th. Your child will be graded on the experiment and his/her lesson
taught to the class. You will need to keep your child’s experiment in
a safe place. The date will be on the instruction page. He/she will
have a worksheet to record that will need to be returned and
explained to the class on the day of the experiment. Please keep up
with the paper, it takes a lot of time for me to assign, put in my
lesson plans, and copy and then go find the lesson and pull that
particular information again if it is lost. If your child is sick on
his/her day, I will give them a makeup day in January. You are
welcome to come and watch your child teach the lesson. Please
practice at home and pretend to be the audience. We will have a Q
and A session at the end of each experiment. Our science time is
at 12:35-1:05. So, if you are coming just sign in at the office and
come to the classroom. This is so much fun for everyone.
Holidays and Traditions
Thank you for all of the fun lessons our parents presented before
the break!
Wish List
 A copy of the book How to Dress a Dragon by
Thelma Godin
 A copy of the book I Wanna Iguana by Karen
Orloff
 Playdough
 Random craft supplies for the free art center
 Empty candy boxes for the Movie center
 Used greeting cards (Please cut off the back where
someone has written on it and we will glue the front on
collect these from you all year!
Major Assessments the third nine weeks:
 Writing first and last name
 Spelling CVC words (we will have a spelling test)
 Decode (read) CVC words
 Retell beginning, middle and end of a story
 Making a connection to a story

Rhyme
Read 22-28 sight words for a grade of “2”
 Compare fiction/Non Fiction books
 Write a letter to someone
 Make an invitation
 Identify story setting, characters,
problem, solution
 Write using simple sentences, some
capitalization and punctuation and form letters
correctly
 Recognizing numerals to 20
 Rote count backwards from 20
 Skip count to 100
 Identify Coins
 Identify three-dimensional solids
 Compare/contrast using math vocabulary
Ways you can support your child’s learning at home:
 Have your child read to someone each night for 10-15
min.
 Have your child practice writing simple sentences paying
attention to using spacing between words, capitalization
and punctuation
 Play a word wall word game (ideas on the back of the list
sent at BTS night)
 Help your child sound out words and write about a topic
of interest using details in a story and drawing pictures
to go with the words.
 Generate a number that is one more than or one less than
another number up to 20 ( also a new requirement from
the state)
List of word wall words for the year:
I, the, we, like, a, see, go, to, have, is, play, are, for,
this, do, and, what, you ,little, said, here, was, she, he,
has ,look, with, my, me, where, when, who, at, how, up, can
, it, fun, as, did, will, am, in, boy, girl, yes, no ,if, mom,
dad, love, or, but, went, get, had, want, not, on, us, that,
him, her, they, could, some, one, two, three ,four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten, red, yellow, blue ,green,
orange, purple, black, white, brown.
Sincerely, Sherry Glidewell
Email: sherry.glidewell@austinisd.org
(512) 841-0326
Class website
Go to https://gullettgeckos.com and click on Learning. Next, click
on kindergarten and scroll down to websites and click on my name.
You will see photos, newsletters and our schedule!