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     Hello and welcome back to school!  I am grateful that everyone had a safe weekend. Although we have a focus letter of the week, we visit each letter and sound each day. Please know that the chidren must recognize the letter by sight, name the sound as well as hear the sound. The essential question that I ask each day is, "Why do you need to know all letters and sounds?" Their response is,"So that we can read and write."  If you notice mispelled words on papers...that is great. The children are encouraged to phonetically spell. If they are in the near vicinity and can tell me what they wrote then I am excited.

     We listen to stories each day and discuss the characters, setting and sequence events. The chidren have immensely enjoyed Frog and Toad! Please continue to practice writing names, letters and numerals correctly.

     In math we are continuing to work on recognizing numerals, rote counting, skip counting, counting objects and writing the number, and identifying which group has more, less or equal.

Letter of the Week: T t

Key Words: a, my, the, A, My, The, I, like, it

     Thanks for all that you do to make your child successful at JME!