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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.