October 22 - Newsletter Updates

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Wed., Oct. 24th—Visit the Book Fair to Shop

-Thurs. Oct. 25th—Half Day & PT Conferences

-Fri. Oct. 26th—Half Day (Dismissal @ 11:35)

-Fri. Oct. 26th—Visit the Book Fair to Purchase

-Wed. Oct 31st—Halloween Parade & Party

-Thurs. Nov. 1st—Pajamas & Popcorn

-Fri. Nov. 2nd—No School—PD

PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES:

I am looking forward to meeting with each of you this Thursday to discuss your child’s progress in Kindergarten.  I will also have party sign ups available for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, & Jump Rope for Heart!

READING: 

This week our class will be focusing on the tools people use every day to help them work, play, cook, and do their chores. We will be reading about tools such as utensils to eat, a calculator to add, and a shovel to dig with. Here are some activities that you can do with your child to help reinforce the skills we will be practicing:

· Vocabulary—tools & discover—invite your child to hunt for different kinds of tools and tell what each one is used for. Make a list of the tools and read it together when you are done.

· Sightword—a—Write simple sentences and leave a blank in each sentence to represent the word a. Have your child write the word in the blanks.

· Category Words—colors

· Phonics—Letter Pp—Invite your child to hunt for household objects that begin or end with the letter p. Write the words on sticky notes and have your child circle the letter p.

WRITING:  

We will complete a journal about a fire truck, as well as a Type 3 about a Jack-o-lantern, which we will practice self assessment using a rubric. We will create a sequencing book about how a pumpkin grows, which will reinforce several of our sightwords. We will also build a 'sentence buddy' to keep in our writing folders to use as a tool while writing. In addition, we will be learning about verbs and practice incorporating 'action words' into our writing. 

SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES:

For Science, we will read several narrative and informational stories related to pumpkins, as we learn the lifecycle of a pumpkin and how it grows. We will also begin our Motion unit as we explore how different things move on the playground.  In Social Studies, we will wrap up our unit on Fire Safety.

MATH: 

We will create a graph using pattern blocks and practice interpreting the data. We will also play a ‘spill the beans’ game where students will determine different combinations for making 10.

COINS FOR KIDS: 

Thanks for the great participation and support for “The Literacy Project.” We will be collecting spare change through the month of October.

*Remember to color in your Book-It calendar, each day that you read at home.