Summer is Here

I cannot believe we are at the end of another school year here at Jefferson! Jefferson is a great place to be with many great students and a wonderful staff! I will miss each student dearly that I have worked with this year, however I ask ONE favor of all the Jefferson Bears.........

That is to READ, READ, READ, and READ over the summer! It is so important to keep practicing strategies and skills that you have worked on all year and keep your reading level when you come back to school in the fall!

And Don't forget to log your minutes for the Scholastic Reading Challenge!!!!!!!



Have a great summer Jefferson Bears!!!

Love,

Mrs. H

Summer Reading Challenge

The Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge is ON!!!!!

Students can log their reading minutes on the free app (Scholastic Reading Timer) or on the internet at www.scholastic.com/summer.




Jefferson Bears can be #1!!

The Summer Reading Challenge runs from May 5th-September 5th.
If Jefferson School is number one, we receive a visit from a popular children's book author, and will be featured in the Scholastic Book of World Records!!
This years them is Under the Stars.

Also, the top 3 students in each grade who log the most minutes over the Challenge will win prizes!!!!!



Keep those brains active and keep on reading!!!!!

Box Tops

April was an exciting month at Jefferson School!

Most people are familiar with General Mills and there Box Top program that raises money for individual schools or districts.
General Mills also offers a Sweepstakes that you can enter to get extra funds for the school. Most of the time, at least for me, I am so unlucky that I never win drawings, or sweepstakes. A 4K student at our school entered the sweepstakes for General Mills and we won an additional 150,000 box tops for our school. Each box top is worth 10 cents, so our school got an additional $15,000!

That money will be going to a new playground for our students!

We are so excited!!!!

I would like to congratulate a few students who have been released from Title One Services and are ready to go back to the classroom and independently use their strategies in guided reading.

Congratulations to:

Yuvia S.
Ja'Kora D.
Matthew W
Camren M



Awesome Job! Keep up the good work!

Spot-N-Dot

There is a strategy you can use to help readers decode longer, multisyllabic words. It is called spot and dot.
Here is some information on how to use the strategy from http://littlelearnersinc.blogspot.com/2011/04/reading-strategy-spot-and-dot.html


We can use Spot and Dot to decode longer words. To Spot and Dot, we find the vowels and put a dot over each vowel or each group of vowels. Since every syllable has a a vowel, we look for the syllables around the vowels.

*If the syllable ends with a vowel, usually the vowel says its long sound.
*If the syllable ends with a consonant, we know the vowel makes its short vowel sound.
*If the vowel ends with a consonant, we know the vowel makes its short vowel sound.
*We also know, "When two vowels go walking, the first vowel does the talking."

Writing it out would look something like this: