Newsletter Updates for the Week of October 26th

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Friday, October 30th—Halloween Party—pm

-Monday, November 2nd—No School—PD Day

-Tuesday, November 10th—Title 1 Family Night

-Book Fair—November 10th-18th—11:30-3:00 & November 19th—1:00-6:00

-Friday, November 13th—Report Cards Home

-Monday, November 16th—Delayed Start

-Thursday, November 19th—No School—Parent Teacher Conferences 1:00-8:00

-Monday, November 23rd—Kindergarten Thanksgiving Activities—am

-Tuesday, November 24th—Making Friendship Soup—am

-Wednesday, November 25th—The Feast—pm

-Thursday, November 26th—Thanksgiving Break

HALLOWEEN PARTY: 

*Please send your child’s costume to school in a bag (labeled with their name). Students will change into their costumes after lunch.

**Please DO NOT send any make-up or toy weapons (guns, swords, knives, etc) to school.

***Parent volunteers—please plan to arrive by 12:15 to help students get into their costumes.

SCHEDULE:

12:15-1:00—Change into Costumes/Activities

1:00-1:15—Photos

1:15-1:45—Parade Downtown

*K will NOT be visiting the 4th grade Wax Museum.

1:45-2:00—Halloween Snacks

2:00-2:20—Change out of Costumes

2:25—Recess

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.

· 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.

· 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 

· Phonics - Letter Pp 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 we will finish up our October Journals by writing about what we will be for

Halloween.  We will also finish our Pumpkin booklets and make a class book titled: There’s a ___ Under My Bed.  We have created several class books so far this year, which you will be able to check out at conferences in a couple of weeks. I will also save their October Journals to share with you at conferences.

MATH: 

This week we will practice arranging and counting collections of objects using different strategies.  We will continue our investigation of shapes—focusing on squares and rectangles.  We will also incorporate several Halloween activities into our math

stations as we focus on number ID, & counting.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: 

This week we will read several stories related to Halloween & Pumpkins. We will carve our jack-o-lantern together, and with elections just around the corner, we will exercise our ‘democratic right to vote,’ as we vote on what kind of mouth to give our jack-o-lantern.

COINS FOR KIDS: 

This is our final week—so keep sending in those coins! :)