August 22, 2016 Mrs. Cushman SIGHT WORDS: INFORMATION: bcushman@kleinisd.net Twitter: @BenferKinder @BenferKISD INFORMATION: Log on to sign up as a volunteer: http://www.kleinisd.net/default.aspx?name=vol.enroll Check out our classroom website! Contact: gbotello1@kleinisd.net Communicate any transportation changes through the front office (car rider, bus rider, day care, etc.). BENFER MISSION: Expect Success! SIGHT WORDS: Sight Words for the week will be listed in the newsletter each week. Your child will have 2-4 words to learn most weeks. We will send home “Word Banks” to help study at home as part of the homework. Specific instructions will be attached to the Word Bank.   NOTES FROM THE TEACHER: This newsletter will be my weekly communication with parents. I will highlight sight words and our topics for Language Arts, Math and Science/Social Studies, include helpful tips as well as inform you of school events throughout the year. The newsletters will be emailed and uploaded on my website. Your child will have a red “Homework Folder”. Homework will typically be sent home on Mondays and be due Fridays. Specific instructions will be in the Homework Folder. We will explain this and other school procedures in detail at Open House in September. WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK: Language Arts (Reading, Phonics & Writing) Math Science/Social Studies Names (learning each other’s names, looking at the letters and sounds in our names and practicing writing our own names, name games) We will introduce independent reading and writing. Proper use of pencil Writing name with first letter uppercase, the rest of the letters lowercase We will be looking at basic attributes of objects and sorting them by those attributes (color, size, shape, etc.) We will be learning our classroom and school rules and procedures.