Welcome to Mrs. Henthorn's 

 School Note

   Every Monday I will send home a letter which contains the weekly story vocabulary and the week's homework assignments. This will be the procedure for my first grade students.

 The children in my third grade class will be expected to copy their nightly homework in their planners on a daily basis. Homework should be completed each night and returned to school the next day. 

 For your convenience, student assignments and necessary reminders will be posted on this web site and updated daily or as needed.

If you would like to contact me, you may do so by  written note, or call the school(201-391-3838). I will make every effort to respond within 24 hours.

 Grade 1 

Homework

May 14-18

Monday-   none

Tuesday-  none

Wednesday-   none

Thursday-  none

Vocabulary:   everything, buried, railroad, wonder, crawled, strange            

                    

                                    Grade 3

                                   Homework

                                 May 14-18

Monday-  Sentences and read up to assigned page. 

Tuesday-   Read up to assigned page: ask 3 questions about what you read to stump your friends.

Wednesday-  Same as Above

Thursday-  no school

Vocabulary: putrid, rodent, editorial, correspondent, dangling, gazette

 

 Reminder  Please have your child read for 15 minutes  each evening.

 

         Parent Reading Tips

     Strategies that may be used 
  to aid in decoding unknown words.

1. Tell your child to look at the picture. You may tell your child the word is something that can be seen in the picture, if that is the
case.

2. Tell your child to look for chunks in the word, such as it in sit, at in mat, or and and ing in standing.

3. Ask your child to get his/her mouth ready to say the word by shaping the mouth for the beginning letter.

4. Ask your child if the word looks like another word s/he knows.
Does bed look like red?, for example.

5. Tell your child the word rhymes with another word s/he knows but starts with a different letter sound.   

 Say: "This word sounds like bed but starts with the'r' sound." (red)                               

6. Ask your child to go on and read to the end of the sentence. Often by reading the other words in context, the child can
figure out the unknown word.

7. If your child says the wrong word while reading, ask questions
like:
Does it make sense?
Does it sound right?
Does it look right?