Newsletter Updates for the Week of October 10th

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Tuesday, Oct. 11th—Title 1 Family Night 5:30-7:00

-Monday, Oct. 17th—Delayed Start

-October 21st-31st—Book Fair

              -Monday, October 24th—We Shop

              -Friday, October 28th—We Return to Buy

-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

STUDENT OF THE WEEK: 

Our student of the week is León Smith. León enjoys playing with Legos, as well as with his friends. He likes to eat pizza, mac-and-cheese, tomatoes, and McDonald’s chicken nuggets.  He has a flare for super heroes as his favorite movie is Avengers and his favorite book is Superman. One of León’s goals this year is to make new friends at school, which he has successfully done! Congratulations to León on being our Student of the Week!

FAMILY NIGHT: 

If you RSVP’d for Title Night, we are looking forward to seeing you and your family Tuesday evening.  Dinner starts @ 5:30 with activities in the classrooms to follow; 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.

READING:

This week our reading lesson will focus on the letter Ss and we will introduce the sightword—see. Our focus stories for this week are Senses at the Seashore and A Feast of the Senses, which we will use to practice building our listening and comprehension skills. We will also introduce Poetry, as we read and listen to some poems related to senses. Our new Beanie Baby for this week is Stretchy Snake—who helps us read new words by stretching out/saying the sounds to figure out the word; we will put this strategy to good use throughout the year while reading and writing.

WRITING: 

This week we will complete a journal about a fire truck and create an Itsy Bitsy Spider class book together. We will also work on writing our own small moment stories—following the writing process of thinking about a story, picturing it in our heads, saying it to ourselves, sketching it on paper, and then adding labels.  We are learning that in Kindergarten we “write the sounds that we hear.” This is hard for some students, as they want me to tell them how to spell words, but as we learn more phonics sounds, the students will become better writers—more independent and more confident. As they learn more sightwords, they will also add more words that they know how to spell from memory to their repertoire.

MATH:

This week we will continue to study the attributes of shapes—focusing on circles, rectangles, & squares. We will also be reviewing five frames and then introduce ten frames. We will continue to work on identifying and writing numbers, as well as oral counting.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES: 

This week we will focus on studying some seasonal things for Science, as we learn about Spiders & Bats. We will read several informational and narrative texts as we learn some interesting facts about these creatures.

Please Send In—a Full Roll of Toilet Paper—

for your child to use for an art project this week!