Newsletter Updates for the Week of September 29th

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Wednesday, Oct. 1st—Student Count Day

-Friday, Oct. 10th—Progress Reports Home

BOOK-IT CALENDAR:   

Attached to the printed newsletter, you will find an October Book-It Calendar along with an informational letter.  Just keep track of the days that you read with your child, send back your signed calendar @ the end of the month, & I will return your calendar with a Pizza Hut certificate.  Pizza & Reading—what a great combination!!

Pizza Hut is also partnering with us for Coins for Hunger—another great incentive for sending in those coins!

LOOKING AHEAD TO OCTOBER:  

Attached to the printed newsletter, you will find the October Breakfast & Lunch Menus as well as our classroom Snack and Parent Volunteer Calendar.  The Lunch Menu is also available to view/print on the School’s website under the LUNCH INFORMATION tab AND if you click on the LOW BALANCE EMAIL ALERTS tab, you can sign up to receive an email when your child’s lunch balance is getting low—a nice feature!  Also, just a reminder that the snack calendar is ALWAYS available at the bottom of my blog—just scroll down to the bottom:)

READING: 

We’ve quickly made it through introducing ALL of the letters of the alphabet and now we will slow our pace a bit, and focus on 1 letter each week. This week our reading lessons will focus on the letter Mm and we will introduce a new sightword—the.  Our focus story for this week is What About Bear? which we will use to practice building our listening and comprehension skills.  This week we will introduce two new beanie baby strategies: Questioning Owl who reminds us to stop and ask ourselves questions about the story while we are reading, and Spinner Spider who helps us remember to ‘make connections’ as we read.  This week the students will receive new materials in their book boxes that they can read during Read-to-Self time, which means they will be bringing home their books that you provided at the beginning of the year. This is our first, of many, reading milestones that we will reach this year!

WRITING:  

This week we will read through our September Journals and talk about how good writers go back and ‘edit’ their work. Students will be bringing their journals home to share with you; please take a few minutes to read through them with your child.  This week we will also be writing about a fall tree & creating a class book about living and non-living things.

MATH:   

This week we will practice identifying, building, & writing numbers 1-10, as well as work on counting.  We will also sort and compare different coins and conduct some measuring and comparing activities using our bodies.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:  

This week we will wrap up our Science Unit on Living and Non-Living Things. Last week we learned that living things grow & change.  This week we will learn about what living things ‘need’ in order to live and grow!

 ITEMS NEEDED—PLEASE SEND IN:  

-Gallon Milk Jugs (empty and rinsed out) for us to use for an art project next week.

 I will be sending blankets home on Friday to be washed and then returned to school for rest time.  I will try to do this at the end of each month :)