Newsletter Updates for the Week of October 24th

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-October 21st-31st—Book Fair

              -Monday, October 24th—We Shop

              -Friday, October 28th—We Return to Buy

-Tuesday, October 25th—Picture Retakes

-Monday, October 31st

              -Bat Presentation in the morning

              -Parade & Party in the afternoon

-Tuesday, November 1st—No School—PD

-Friday, November 4th—Report Cards Home

-Thurs. Nov. 10th—1/2 Day/Parent Teacher Conferences from 1:00-4:00 & 5:00-8:00

-Friday, November 11th—Half Day

STUDENT OF THE WEEK: 

Our student of the week is Wyatt Grill. Wyatt enjoys spending time with his Dad and he loves recess! He likes to eat chicken nuggets and pancakes. He loves to play with Legos and his favorite movie is Ninjago. A couple of his goals include learning to read books and becoming a Knight—both well within his reach! Congratulations to Wyatt on

being our Student of the Week!

HALLOWEEN: 

*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, knives, swords, etc) to school.

***Parent volunteers, please plan to arrive by 12:15 to help get students into their costumes. The parade starts at 1:00 and families are welcome to watch us parade downtown—we would love an audience to cheer us on.

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

READING:

This week our class will be focusing on the shapes we see in nature and in our neighborhoods as we read about the shapes we see around us. Here are some activities that you can do with your child to help reinforce the skills we will be practicing:

· Vocabulary—materials & nature—Invite your child to hunt for shapes found in nature or on materials. Then invite them to draw pictures of each item.

· Sightword—like—Write the word like on paper and have your child trace it. Then say sentences and have them write like each time you say the word.

· Category Words—shapes—Say simple riddles that include different shape words and have your child guess each object.

· Phonics—Letter Tt—Invite your child to play a game of “I Spy.” Say sentences and have your child find objects whose names begin or end with the letter t, such as I spy a table. I spy a pot.

· Beanie Baby Strategy—Picturing Penguin—He helps us visualize or picture the story in our minds while we are reading—a hard skill for kindergartners who are surrounded by lots of visual stimulation in our world:)

WRITING:  

This week we will build a sentence buddy to put in our writing folders to use as a tool to help us while writing.  We will finish up our October journals by writing about what we are going to be for Halloween.

MATH:

This week we will continue our study of shapes and practice making shapes using ropes, geoboards, and a new geoboard app.  We will also practice following directions using positional words as we maneuver through an obstacle course in gym class. We will do some measuring of longer & shorter and continue to practice counting and writing our numbers.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: 

This week we will read several narrative and informational stories related to Halloween. 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.