Newsletter Updates for the Week of October 20th

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Wednesday, October 22nd—Picture Retakes

-Thursday, October 28th—Family Night 5:30-7:00

-Monday, November 3rd—No School

-Thurs., Nov. 6th—Parent Teacher Conferences

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:  

Our student of the week is Chance Southwick. Chance enjoys driving tractors, taking things apart, building, & creating with his hands. His favorite place to go is to Anderson & Girls Orchard, and when he grows up, Chance aspires to be a Cement Truck Driver. Congratulations to Chance on being Student of the Week!

FAMILY NIGHT:  

Our annual Title 1 Family Night will be Tuesday, October 28th from 5:30-7:00. We are asking families to RSVP, so that we can plan for food—PIZZA! 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. Please be sure to RSVP by this Friday. Hope to see you there!

READING:

This week our class will be focusing on the tools people use every day to help them work, play, cook, and do their chores. Children will also be reading about tools such as utensils to eat, a calculator to add, and a shovel to dig holes.

Here are some activities that you can do with your child to help reinforce the skills we will be practicing.

Word Workout

· Vocabulary: tool, discover Invite your child to hunt for different kinds of tools and tell what each one is used for. Make a list of the tools and read it together when you’re done.

· My Words to Know

High-Frequency Word: a Write simple sentences and leave a blank in each sentence to represent the word a. Have your child write the word a in the blanks. Then read each sentence together.

Category Words: colors Draw simple pictures of tools on paper. Have your child color each tool.

Phonics: p Invite your child to hunt for household objects that begin or end with the letter p. Write each word on a sticky note and have your child circle the p.

WRITING:  

This week the students will work in teams to draw monsters, as they listen for rhyming words & nouns; we will then compare our monsters as we discuss their details. We will also complete a couple of class books related to some classic Mercer Mayer Books: There’s a Monster in My Closet & There’s an Alligator Under My Bed.  We have created several class books so far this year that you will be able to check out at conferences in a couple of weeks. :)

MATH:  

This week we will work on oral counting; at this point in the school year, students should be able to count to 25 on their own.  We will also continue to practice writing our numbers and conduct some sequencing and measuring activities with pumpkins & monster feet.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:   

This week we will continue our study on PUMPKINS. We will also read several fun, narrative texts related to MONSTERS; which will lead us to discuss the characteristics & purpose of fiction/narrative texts—make-believe stories, characters, & events that are written just for fun!