<p> September 1, 2016 Ms. Carrignan’s Newsletter</p><p>This Week: Ask Me About: Announcements:</p><p> Nurse Cooley came down and  How does the “r-e-d”  Picture Day is September 14th. read “I’m a Bugger Treat Me song go? With Respect.” We talked   There is no school on Friday about how to make a tissue  The new technology we September 2nd for an institute ghost and how to wash our got in our classroom!! day and Monday September 5th hands after we blow our nose. for Labor Day Yahoo!!  What kind of drill did you practice? Where  In shared reading we read The  Next week we will be learning did you go? Little Red Riding Hood and about the color ORANGE. Please stood up every time we heard have your child wear ORANGE our new sight word “red” We  Can you remember on Friday to celebrate. also talked about the features what you do for a of front cover, title page, severe weather drill?  Please send in a 1” Binder for author, & illustrator. Handwriting (labeled with your  What was my favorite child’s name). Thank you  We started to learn sight words part of my day? this week. This week (red & a).  Help us earn points on Scholastic   In Jolly Phonics, we reviewed our Where do I put a to get free stuff for our letters s, a, t, & i. We also period? classroom! When ordering your practiced putting those words books (Online preferably) use Ms. together to make words like sat, Carrignan’s class code of tip, pat, sip, etc. N9HWD.</p><p> In Math, we’ve practiced sorting  My email is objects into categories, same and different. We also learned [email protected] how to count on our fingers and that making big open hand is  Don’t forget to send in your box always 5! Rekenreks were tops introduced and we found out they are a blast to use with counting!  Have a great  In writing this week we used our knowledge to match upper and weekend!! lower case letters. We also practiced writing our name the correct way. We are working on not putting capital letters in the middle of our names. We also started our first journal. Did you know we should put spaces between our words? This makes the sentence easier to read. </p>