Newsletter Updates for the Week of October 2nd

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Friday, October 13th—Mobile Dentist

-Monday, October 16th—Delayed Start (10:00)

-Thursday, October 19th—Title 1 Family Night

STUDENT OF THE WEEK: 

Our student of the week is Santiago Rebolledo Garcia. Santiago likes to run and climb trees; his favorite food to eat is pizza and his favorite movie is Toy Story. Santiago likes to learn at school and always comes to school with a smile; this year he wants to learn how to read and write, which he is on his way to accomplishing! Congratulations to Santiago on being our Student of the Week!

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!

READING:

This week our reading lessons will focus on the letter Aa and we will introduce a new sightword—we. Our focus stories 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 he Fish during Read to Self time, as we ‘read’ some ‘good-ft’ 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 ipads.

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 edit our September Journals and bring them home to share with you. We will use our imagination to create a class book based on Mercer Mayer’s book There’s an Alligator Under My Bed.

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 determining different ways to sort groups of objects as they establish ‘sorting rules.’

SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES:

This week our Science lessons will focus on Apples; we will read several narrative and informational texts about apples, conduct some fun experiments with apples, including a taste test on Friday. We will graph our data and discuss our results.

SHOW & TELL:

Many of the students have asked about bringing things in to share, for ‘show & tell.’ I don’t do a formal ‘show & tell;’ however, if they want to bring something in to show/share, they may do so on their special day, when they are the helper.

REMINDER:

Please send in a gallon milk jug (empty and rinsed out) and a full roll of toilet paper for us to use for a couple of fun art projects.

Please be sure to wash and return your child's blanket to school for rest time:)