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October Events

·      Count day – Oct. 3^rd

·      Kindergarten progress reports go home – Oct. 5^th

·      Oct. Book Orders due – Oct. 5^th Online order code - H8Z94

·      Fire Prevention week – Oct. 8^th

·      Columbus Day – Oct. 8^th

·      Picture Retake Day – Oct. 10^th

·      Delayed start – Oct. 15^th

·      Book Fair week – Oct. 22^nd

·      Title I night – Oct. 23^rd

·      Parent/Teacher Conferences – Oct. 25^th

·      Half days – Oct. 25 & 26^th

·      Halloween Party & Parade – Oct. 31^st

·      Friday, Nov. 2^nd NO School – Teacher PD

Show-n-Tell this week for Letter M items

Hello parents!  Please take a few minutes and go to the following link and please fill out the follow school survey.  Thank you for your time 

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This week in class!

Language Arts:  - Essential Question –How can we get along with new friends? Letter of the week – Mm

Sight word of the week – the

Vocabulary words – Friend, Problem, Escape, Grasped, Rescue

Reading –CAFÉ reader friend – Spinner the Spider – Making connections to stories either through our world connections, personal connections, or by text connections.  Focusing in on – Key Details, Title, Author, Illustrator

Reader’s workshop – Why readers read, Favorite reading memory/spot, respecting all readers, three ways to read a book. (pictures, words, retelling)

Grammar – Uppercase/Capitals and lowercase letters & Nouns

Writing – Class books and journal entries. Model, sketch, details.  Using texts to help us creative our small moments to write about.  Handwriting practice.

Math: -

2.4 – Number board

2.5 – Pocket problems (homelink)

2.6 – How many now?

Social Studies: - Our feelings at school – Scholastic News – School wide expectations PBIS

Science: - Focus – How do we observe patterns?  How do patterns inform us?  Weather books, graph, 5-day forecast Phenomenon: Clothes worn to school that day.  How we dress for different kinds of weather.

Technology: - Starfall & starting Enterprise on computer, IPad: Write my name app, Letter school, ABC Wow, candy count, sorting, Park Math, subitizing tree

Fun to Be Fit Day!

Thank you to all the parents that came to our Fun to be Fit day!  The kids were so happy to see familiar faces there.

Apple Week!

We also had a lot of fun with our Apple Week things.  Hopefully, the kiddos told you all about Johnny Appleseed.  We tasted three different kinds of apples and graphed our favorites.  We taste tested apple cider and apple juice to compare them and taste the difference.  We made homemade applesauce and tasted apple butter with cinnamon sticks.  We also made some easy readers for them to keep at home.  Please keep those books for a few weeks as we will be learning those upcoming words…the, a, see, and like.  Those are great little readers to read over and over with them at home.

October starts our Book-It – Pizza Hut reading challenge that runs through March.

Your child will receive a free Pizza Hut certificate for a personal pan pizza, for reading approximately 20 minutes a night during the month of October.  Please just color in each day you read together and return it to school at the end of each month to receive a certificate.  Remember you and your child should be reading together for about 20 minutes every night.

Fall Leaves

We will be continuing a unit on our five

senses learning all about the fall and leaves. Please go on a leaf hunt with your child and collect some leaves. We will be making leaf men, animals, and critters in class out of real leaves, twigs, and acorns.  If you and your child could please collect leaves from all different kinds of trees and all different colors to bring into school for our project that would be wonderful.  I ask that the leaves are somewhat flat (place in a book to flatten) and not too crumpled up and only bring in about 12 leaves in a labeled zip lock bag.  You can bring them in within the next two weeks.  Thank you for your help on this project.

Book Fair Volunteers

Sherry Brinks is looking for some parent volunteers willing to help out with the Book Fair, Oct. 22-31^st Please contact Mrs. Brinks at sherry.brinks@mcbain.org if you are willing to help out with this.

We will be going to view books on Thursday, Oct. 26^th and making out a wish list.  Those will go home that night and the next day we will go back and make purchases on Friday, Oct. 27^th. 

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Upcoming Events

·      Johnny Appleseed’s Birthday – September 26^th

·      Apple week – Sept.24-28^th

·      Fun to be Fit – Friday, Sept. 28^th at 1:30 at the track until 2.

·      Count day – Oct. 3^rd

·      Kindergarten progress reports go home – Oct. 5^th

·      Oct. Book Orders due – Oct. 5^th Online order code - H8Z94

·      Fire Prevention week – Oct. 8^th

·      Columbus Day – Oct. 8^th

·      Delayed start – Oct. 15^th

·      Book Fair week – Oct. 22^nd

·      Title I night – Oct. 23^rd

·      Parent/Teacher Conferences – Oct. 25^th

·      Half days – Oct. 25 & 26^th

No Show-n-Tell this week

due to Fun to be Fit.

Happy Birthday to

Mrs. Clark this week!

Hello parents!  Please take a few minutes and go to the following link and please fill out the follow school survey.  Thank you for your time 

https://goo.gl/forms/bvWzlvYVf0j0qd2f1

This week in class!

Language Arts:  - Essential Question –What can you do? ABC sound books, nursery rhymes, Kindergarteners Can, & alphabet bracelets. Letters (T-z), Wrapping up our first unit and review sight words – can & I review

Reading – Nursery rhymes, Authors & Illustrators, starting our CAFÉ menu board – Eagle eye, Lips the Fish, & Jabber the Reteller

Reader’s workshop – Why readers read, Favorite reading memory/spot, respecting all readers, three ways to read a book. (pictures, words, retelling)

Grammar – Uppercase/Capitals and lowercase letters

Writing – Class books and journal entries. Speaking & listening to others to help us with our writing. Asking questions – The 5 W’s (Who, What, Where, When, Why) – Tools for writing (offices & ABC charts)

Math: -

2.1 – match up with dot cards

2.2 – top it with dot cards

2.3 – getting to know triangles

Social Studies: - Who was Johnny Appleseed.

Science: - Focus – How do we observe patterns?  How do patterns inform us?  Weather books, graph, 5-day forecast

Technology: - Starfall on computer, IPad: Write my name app, Letter school, ABC Wow, candy count, sorting, Park Math, subitizing tree

Fun to Be Fit Day!

This Friday, September 28

If you ordered a tee shirt, be on the look out for them coming home this week.  Please have your kindergartener wear it on Friday.  We will head out to the track at 1 o’clock for an all school picture at 1:15. This is just for students and staff.  Parents after the picture please feel free to meet us at our meeting spot to walk, jog, or run with your kiddo.  At 2 o’clock we will be finishing up.  We will be walking back to our classroom and there, parents can sign the kids out for the rest of the day.

Apple Week this week!

We will be exploring apples all week long and learning about Johnny Appleseed.  We will be graphing our favorite apple, science with apples, measuring with apples, apple tasting, cooking, and writing about apples too. 

If you offered to donate a bag of apples please send them in or if you forgot what kind please email me and we can work it out.  We need...

3 bags of green apples

1 of red (Gala or other)

1 of Golden delishious

1 gallon of apple cider

1 gallon of apple juice

apple butter for tasting. 

If you are willing to donate something please shoot me a message.  I'd love to have everything by Wednesday.  If you’d like to volunteer in the classroom on Friday, to help out with our apple stations please just let me know too if your free or willing.  Remember you have to have your background check cleared by the office before volunteering in the rooms.

Most of our kiddos are finished with all of our testing.  I will be compiling all of their scores and data to send out to you all next Friday, Oct. 5^th.  Please do not hesitate to contact me about their results.  We will be going over them again during our parent-teacher conferences near the end of October.

October starts our Book-It – Pizza Hut reading challenge that runs through March.