Newsletter Updates for the Week of October 31st

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-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/Veteran’s Day

-Tuesday, November 15th—No School/Deer Day

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.

BOOK-IT: 

I’ve attached the November Book-it Calendar so that you can keep track of your child’s reading for the month of November. Please be sure to return your completed October Calendars so I can award Pizza Hut certificates.  Also, attached to the newsletter you will find an additional Pizza Hut coupon for participating in Coins for Kids.

BOOK FAIR:

The book fair is wrapping up on Monday, October 31st. If your child bought a book, but didn’t bring it home, no worries—it is on order and should be arriving within the next couple of days:)

READING:

This week our class will be focusing on different kinds of bugs and how they move. Children will also be reading about a variety of bugs they see in nature. Here are some activities that you can do with your child to help reinforce the skills we will be practicing:

· Vocabulary—curious, observe—Go outside and have your child observe different bugs. Have your child draw a picture of the bugs in a notebook and then label each one.

· Sightwords—review—the, we, see, a, I & like—practice reading and writing these words and looking for them in books.

· Category Words—movement words—say simple riddles that describe the different movements made by animals or insects. Have your child guess the animal or insect.

· Phonics—Review letters—m, a, s, p, & t—Give your child words that begin with these letters and have them practice identifying the sound and writing the beginning letter.

· Beanie Baby Strategies—This week we will introduce Iggy the Inferring Iguana who reminds us to make predictions and inferences as we read and then validate and adjust our predictions as we read. We will also introduce Pop the Weasel who reminds us to look for sightwords while we are reading—these are the words we know, they POP into our heads and out of our mouths!

WRITING: 

This week we will be observing, drawing, and writing about leaves as we practice writing like Scientists. Please send in a couple of leaves for us to use for writing this week:)

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: 

This week we will read several stories related to scarecrows, harvest, and vegetables. We will read Stone Soup to help us prepare for our upcoming Friendship Soup project.

MATH:

This week we will practice different ways to represent numbers (ten frames, fingers, tally marks). We will also play several hands-on games to help us identify and write our numbers.

Have a safe and spook-tacular Halloween!