November 6, 2009
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Parent Conferences
GP and Special Friends
Book Fair
Banyan Book Fair Visit
Thank you all for meeting with
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Monday, November 9-13.
Monday, November
us this past week. Aa always,
Tuesday, November 24th.
Book Fair weekend:
9th: 9:10-9:50. Please
November 6, 7, 8.
join us at the book fair!
please feel free to contact me at anytime.
READING: Banyan readers have filling their reading tool box with reading tools and strategies! We use these tools when we decode a new or unfamiliar word. Sometimes, we use more than one tool at a time and we have to decide which tool is most efficient.
Use the picture
Use the first letters of a word
Look at the ending letters of the word
What makes sense?
Skip and return
Look through the whole word
Clean up, reread
Banyan Newsletter
Word Work We continued to work in centers, Students sorted words by vowel sounds and beginning letters. They played word tile games. We looked at the following spelling patterns: in and ap. We also recited some fun tongue twisters: Kade’s and Kylar’s kittens kissed Karen. Try saying that 5 times fast!