Learning, learning, and more learning!

This was a fabulous week in Rainbow Valley.  I throughly enjoyed returning to work.

• This week we started our unit on Pocahontas and Powhatan.  Please review the Pocahontas book that came home today with your child.  Ask them how Pocahontas was a friend to the Jamestown Settlers?
• In writing we worked on sounding out our words.  It is important that when your child is writing he or she is at least writing beginning letter sounds to match their pictures.
• Many guided reading groups this week enjoyed learning two new reading strategies for when "We get stuck on a word." They are: Look At the Picture and Sound it Out. Please encourage your child to try these strategies often.