Upcoming Dates:
- October 23-27 Scholastic Book Fair
- Monday and Tuesday: 8-8:30 am, 3-4 pm
- Wednesday & Thursday: 8-8:30 am, 1-6 pm
- Friday: 8-8:30 am, 1-2 pm
- Wednesday, October 25: Say Boo to the Flu immunization clinic 3:00-7:00 (Q1 library)
- Wednesday-Thursday, October 25-26: Parent Teacher Conferences
- Tuesday, October 31: Halloween Parade (9:00 am) & Party
- Wednesday, November 1: NO SCHOOL
- Friday, Nov. 3: Ice Cream Party (Keep up the great work practicing letter naming and sounds!)
Treasure Chest: If you have any small toys that are no longer being used and in good condition, instead of throwing them out, please consider donating them to our classroom treasure chest. Students work hard and love to earn a chance to pick out fun prizes. Thank you!
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Here’s a quick overview of new things we learned this week:
Comprehension strategy & Skill: “Ask and Answer Questions” and “Topic and Details”. We read informational texts to go along with our theme “What shapes do you see around you?”
New High Frequency Word: “like” (please continue to practice) “see”, “we”, “I”, “can”, “the”, “a”)
Phonics: Sound and Spelling of Tt. Blending words with the letters: m, p, a, s, t.
Phonemic Awareness: rhyming words, syllables, first, middle and last sounds we hear in words, adding, taking away and replacing words in compound words (or prefixes and suffixes), blending sounds we hear to make a word, and breaking apart words into individual sounds.
Vocabulary: materials, nature, world, decoration, games.
Math: Lesson 11 “Count, Show, and Write Numbers 6 to 10”. We encourage students to use the lesson 11 worksheet packets that are sent home for extra practice!
Science: Pushes and Pulls. We learned that before we had machines, we had to do lots of work by hand. We talked about how machines are not magical; rather they just seem that way because there are often moving parts hidden inside. In our Read-Along lesson, a little girl watches a house being built and wonders why the builders need so many big machines. Students acted out the “work words” of their favorite machine and described what the machines were doing using those work words.