Week of Oct. 15th - Oct. 19th

Week of Oct. 8th - Oct. 12th

This past week flew right on by! I can not believe it is Friday already! We had a fun week reading more of our Lois Ehlert books.  We did a fun project today where we used stencils to draw different shapes in order to make our favorite animals.  On Wednesday we read two Scaredy Squirrel books and talked about different things that we are afraid of.  The students had so much fun learning new things about each other and the squirrels turned out so cute!

Looking Ahead to Oct. 15th - Oct. 19th

Reading Strategies

We will be discussing topic, main idea, summarizing and evaluating.

Phonics

"AR" digraph sound

 

Writing Strategies/Grammar

Reviewing Proper Nouns
Common Nouns

Vocabulary
 (students will not be tested on these - they are to help expand their vocabulary)

deserve
grateful
amble
plead
deceive
challenge

Spelling Words

at
yes
slug
arm
hard
scarf
card
are
all
morning

The test on these words will be Friday, October 19th.

Math:
We are continuing to work on addition and subtraction in Chapter 4. The students are learning about inverse operations.

An example: 2+6=8 and 8-6=2.

There are some things that you can be doing with your child at home! Ask them about fact families. Give them three numbers and see if they can put it in a fact family:

1+3=4

3+1=4

4-3=1

4-1=3

Looking Ahead:

• Spooky Story Day is Friday Oct. 26th - Students can wear orange and black for Halloween!
• The PTO sponsored Halloween party will be Oct. 26th at night.
• Early Dismissal Day - Thurs. Oct. 25th

HALLOWEEN PARTY :)

Our Halloween festivities are scheduled for Wednesday, October 31st. The children’s costume parade will begin between 1:40-1:45 p.m. outside the school (weather permitting). Our classroom party will begin at 2:00 p.m. Students should bring their costumes to school that day in a bag with their name clearly marked on it. Please try to make their costumes easy to put on over their regular clothes. Makeup cannot be applied at school and toy weapons are not allowed.

Also, children are not allowed to bring candy or edible treats to pass out to their classmates on this day. The students will be having a small treat and drink in the classroom during the party. We also have students who have various food allergies in our class.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter! Let me know if you have any questions!

Reminders

• If you haven't signed up for conferences, please visit my online conference sign up! The spots are filling up quickly! :) http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090444A8AA23A57-fall
• Please send your child with a healthy snack :) - fruit, veggies, pretzels, granola bars etc.
• If you have a certain week that you would like your child to be "Marvelous Me" let me know and we can see what is available! If not - I will assign your child a week.
• Bring in a sock for math :)

Thanks and have a great week! :)