Newsletter Updates

DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Thursday, Oct. 6th—Elementary Title 1 Night
-Monday, Oct 10th—Delayed Start

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:
Our student of the week is Xavier Ramon. Xavier enjoys riding his bike, writing, drawing, watching movies, and playing his D.S. Xavier’s favorite place is his bedroom and when he grows up he’d like to drive a race car!Congratulations to Xavier, on being our first Student of the Week!
**Please remember to send in your child’s student of the week poster; I have extra copies!!

ELEMENTARY TITLE 1 NIGHT:
This year we are combining all of our grade level Title 1 Nights into one Elementary-wide Title 1 Night. This event is scheduled for Thursday, October 6th. Last Friday, invitations were sent home (1 invitation per family, sent home with the oldest elementary child). We are asking families to RSVP, so that we can plan for food—Pizza! I encourage you to attend! In addition to dinner being served, each teacher will have specific learning activities set up in their classrooms, as well as handouts and materials for you to take with you to practice important skills at home. There will also be opportunities to enter into a drawing for some great prizes! Please get your RSVPs in ASAP. Hope to see you there!!

READING:
This week we will be reading From Head to Toe as we work on comprehension skills, rhyming, comparing and contrasting. Our focus letters this week are E, P, V, & C. We will also spend one day (Thursday) reviewing the letters that we’ve already introduced, and we will be introducing the listening center this week.

WRITING:
This week we will learn about the importance of ‘details’ in our writing/drawing as we practice writing & drawing a detailed picture of Mrs. Brinks. In our journals, we will be writing about our friends at school, things we like to do at home, as well as things we can do now that we are kindergartners. We will also complete a Type 3 about what happens to the trees in the Fall. The students are getting anxious to bring their September journals home to share with you next week!

MATH:
This week we will practice recognizing and writing the numbers 0-10. We will also practice matching numbers to their corresponding number of objects. We will build and interpret a Teddy Bear Graph and work on identifying and creating AB patterns. We will also be working on listening skills and following directions as we practice using positional words (over, under, on top, between, beside, etc.)

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
This week we will begin our Science Unit on living and non-living things. This week we will be learning the characteristics of living things; living things change and grow. In Social Studies, we will begin learning about relative time: past, present, & future as we reference our classroom timeline and talk about things that we’ve done in the past, things we can do now in the present, and things we are looking forward to in the future.