DATES TO REMEMBER:
-Tuesday, October 23rd—Title 1 Night
-Wednesday, October 24th—Picture Retakes
-Wednesday, October 31st—Halloween Party
-Thursday, November 1st—No School
-Monday, November 5th—Report Cards Home
-Thursday, November 8th—Conferences 4-7
-Tuesday, November, 13th—Conferences 4-7
-Wednesday, November 14th—Half Day
-Thursday, November 15th—No School
-Monday, November 19th—Delayed Start
PICTURES:
School pictures are in. I try NOT to send pictures home in Kindergartners backpacks to ensure that they arrive home in the best condition. If you are attending Title 1 Night, please be sure to pick them up. If you cannot stop in to pick them up, let me know and I will try to pack them carefully in your child’s backpack. Retakes are this Wednesday.
FRIDAY = COOKIE DAY:
Apparently the kitchen will offer cookies every Friday for the students to purchase for 25¢. However, students are NOT allowed to deduct the cost from their lunch account. This is difficult for Kindergarteners to understand and even trickier for them to keep their 25¢ safely in their pocket until lunch. I will do my best to help them keep their money safe if you choose to have them participate. I just wanted to make you aware of this opportunity.
COINS FOR WORLD HUNGER:
During the month of October, we are collecting coins to help feed hungry children. If you have spare change, please send it to school with your child to drop in their classroom’s bucket. The class that raises the most money will receive a pizza party from Pizza Hut! Thanks for sending in those pennies!!
READING:
This week we will be reading Mouse Mess as we work on comprehension, vocabulary, and recalling & retelling. Our focus letter for this week is the vowel Aa and we will work on building & rhyming words with the at, an, & am word families. The students are excited about our new literacy stations and are doing a great job with learning the new routines and expectations. We continue to practice our accuracy strategies each day during ‘Read to Self’ time and this week we will begin ‘Partner Reading.’
WRITING:
This week we will continue learning the Writing Workshop format as we work on our ‘small moment’ stories. I will continue to model and guide the students through the process of writing small moment stories. I am looking forward to sharing my recent trip to Sky Zone through a small moment mini lesson this week. We will be focusing on ‘details’ this week and making sure our pictures match our words.
**Mrs. Brinks at Sky Zone last weekend - an indoor trampoline park in Fishers, Indiana.
FYI - there is one coming to Grand Rapids, Michigan - lots of fun!!
SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
This week we will be reading several narrative and informational texts related to pumpkins, Halloween, & bats. We will be reading and reenacting The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything; in addition, we will sequence the stages of a pumpkin’s life cycle, and investigate some interesting qualities related to bats.
MATH:
This week we will incorporate several Halloween activities into our math stations as we focus on sequencing by size, ordering numbers, & counting. This week we will introduce the ‘tricky teens’ as we begin identifying, counting, and writing the teen numbers.
