October 1st - Newsletter Updates

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Wed. Oct 3rd—Student Count Day

-Wed. Oct 10th—Picture Retake Day

-Fri., Oct. 12th—K Progress Reports Home

-Mon. Oct. 15th—Delayed Start

SURVEY:

If you haven’t already, please take a moment to fill out the Parent Survey, so that we can get feedback and plan programming to meet your needs.  You can find the link on my blog or on the homepage of McBain’s website.

ITEMS NEEDED: 

Please send in a full roll of toilet paper for your child to make a keep-sake pumpkin  (by this Wednesday) and a gallon milk jug (empty and rinsed out) for our milk jug Jack-o-lanterns, which we will begin making next week.

COINS FOR KIDS: 

Starting Monday October 1st, McBain Elementary, in partnership with Pizza Hut, will be collecting spare change through the month of October. This year the funds will benefit “The Literacy Project” to work in conjunction with “Book-It” - inspiring students to develop a love of reading!

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 one 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 is What About Bear? Which we will use to practice building our listening and comprehension skills. This week we will introduce 2 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.

WRITING: 

We will work on creating a small moment based on our Gingerbread Day, as we practice the process of writing a story together. We will use our imaginations to create a couple of fun class books based on Mercer Mayer’s books There’s an Alligator Under My Bed & There’s a Nightmare in My Closet.

SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES: 

This week we will continue learning about Weather, as we chart our daily weather and collect data. We will also continue reading and talking about the changes that occur in Fall. We will have a special visit from Scrappy the Squirrel who will tell us what he’s up to this time of year AND we will conduct a fun experiment with acorns.

MATH:

We will practice counting and comparing quantities. We will also play some simple addition and subtraction games with manipulatives and work on graphing our names, as well as M & M’s.

 · Please be sure to return your child's blanket for rest time this week:)