Newsletter Updates for the Week of October 3rd

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Tuesday, Oct. 11th—Title 1 Family Night

-Monday, Oct. 17th—Delayed Start

-October 1st-31st—Book Fair

FAMILY NIGHT: 

Our annual Title 1 Family Night will be Tuesday, October 11th.  Last week you received a yellow invitation with all of the details. We are asking families to RSVP by October 7th so that we can plan for food. In addition to dinner being served, each teacher will have specific learning activities set up in their classrooms, as well as handouts & materials for you to take with you to practice important skills @ home.

BOOK-IT: 

Last week I sent home the 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 at the end of the month, and I’ll return your calendar with a Pizza Hut certificate. Pizza & Reading—what a great combination!

BOOKS & BLANKETS: 

I sent blankets home on Friday to be washed and then returned to school for rest time.  I’ll try to do this at the end of each month.  I also sent home ‘most’ of your child’s books from their book boxes; I let them choose 1-2 to keep at school. :)

READING:

This week our reading lesson will focus on the letter Aa and we will introduce the sightword—we. Our focus stories for this week are Pouch! and Baby Animals on the Move, which we will use to practice building our listening and comprehension skills. This week we will practice using Eagle Eye & Lips the Fish during Read to Self time, as we ‘read’ some ‘good-fit’ materials from our book boxes. We will also begin ‘partner reading’ where we will practice building our accuracy, fluency, and comprehension skills while reading with a friend. The students are doing a GREAT job with our new expanded Literacy Stations and we are working on so many foundational reading skills each day—letter ID, sounds, rhyming, handwriting, retelling stories, computer skills, sightwords, & listening to stories on CD/ipads.

WRITING: 

We will work on creating a small moment together, based on our Gingerbread Day, as we practice the process of writing a story together.  We will also write about what happens to trees in the Fall and create a couple of imaginative class books based on the Mercer Mayer books—There’s an Alligator Under My Bed & There’s a Nightmare in My Closet.

MATH:

We will practice counting and comparing quantities. We will also play some simple addition and subtraction games with manipulatives. Students will work on sorting and determine different ways to sort groups of objects as they establish ‘sorting rules.’

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: 

This week we will focus on Fire Safety and Prevention. We will read several informational texts related to fire safety and watch several video segments to spark our discussions. October is Fire Prevention Month; please be sure to check the batteries in your smoke detectors at home & discuss and practice an escape plan with your family.

COINS FOR KIDS: 

Great job sending in those coins—we will collecting for a couple more weeks:)

 Items Needed—Please Send In—Gallon Milk Jugs

(empty and rinsed out) for us to use for an art project THIS week:)