Newsletter Updates for the Week of October 23rd

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Friday, October 27th—Picture Retakes

-Tuesday, October 31st—Halloween Parade—1:00 Downtown McBain

-Wednesday, November 1st—No School—PD

-Friday, November 3rd—Report Cards Home

-Friday, November 3rd—Shop at the Book Fair

-Wednesday, November 8th—Buy at the Book Fair

-Thursday, November 9th—1/2 Day—Parent Teacher Conferences from 1:00-8:00

-Friday, November 10th—1/2 Day

-Wed., November 15th—No School—Deer Day

HALLOWEEN:

Here’s a little info regarding 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 and 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.  Clifford will be joining us for our parade.

**** K will NOT be visiting the 4th grade wax museum; we will party in our classroom after the parade.

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 around the house. 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—Play ‘I spy’ using shapes you see around you.

· Phonics—Letter Tt—Play ‘I spy’ using objects around your home that begin or end with t (I spy a table or 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:

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. We will also begin a new informational unit on List, Observe, & Label. We will read several informational texts related to Fall and then work together to create our first informational class book on Fall.

SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES: 

We will read several narrative and informational stories related to Halloween and we will learn about Trick-or-Treat Safety.  Our new character trait for this month is RESPECT which we will learn about through videos, books, and lots of opportunities to practice:)

MATH:

This week we will continue our study of shapes and practice making shapes using ropes, geoboards, our bodies, 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.