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Upcoming Events

·      Halloween Party & Parade – Oct. 31^st parade starts around 1:30 downtown

·      Thursday, Nov. 1^st – PJ’s & popcorn day

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

·      Sunday, Nov. 4^th – Daylight Savings

·      Tuesday, Nov. 6^th – Title 1 night @5:15-7

·      Sunday, Nov. 11^th – Veteran’s Day

·      Thursday, Nov. 15^th – NO school – Deer Day

·      Monday, Nov. 19^th – Delayed start

·      Tuesday, Nov. 20^th – Thanksgiving rotations day & cutting up veggies

·      Wednesday, Nov. 21^st – K report cards will go home

·      Wed., Nov. 21^st – Stone Soup Feast Day.

·      Thanksgiving Break Thurs, Nov. 22- Fri., Nov. 23^rd.

Show-n-Tell this Thursday for either letter Pp or Tt!

One more day for Coin’s for Kids!  Thank you to all of you who donated!

Picture Retake Day is tomorrow, Tues. Oct. 30^th!

October Book-it!  Don’t forget to turn in your October reading calendar’s, at the end of this week, to receive your Pizza Hut Pizza Certificates.

This week in class!

Language Arts:  - Essential Question –What shapes do you see around you?

Letter of the week – Tt

Sight word of the week – like (review - the, I, can, we, see, go, am, a & color words)

Vocabulary words – materials, nature, decoration, games, world

Category words – rectangle, square, triangle, circle

Reading –CAFÉ reader friend – Picturing Penguin & Stretchy Snake – stretching out words to read. Reviewing Questioning Owl – ask and answer questions during a story for understanding – The 5 W’s

Focusing in on – Key Details, Title, Author, Illustrator, Genre

Reader’s workshop – Selecting good fit books

Grammar – Verbs

Writing – Journal entries, parts of a book, creating sentences, pumpkin booklet.  Handwriting Tt practice.

Math: -

3.3 – Rope shapes/or shapes out of your bodies

3.4 – Number books - # handwriting practice

Social Studies: - PBIS – school wide expectations.

Science: - Pumpkin investigation on Halloween morning with some special visitors.

Unit 2 – Barrier’s Up (Forces & Motion) Focus – How are things moving on the playground?  Phenomenon: video/picture of children pushing and pulling on the playground.

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

Thank you to all the parents who were able to attend Parent-Teacher conferences!  We had outstanding attendance and it was a pleasure to meet all of you! 

Halloween Party

Schedule for our Halloween Party:

11:40-12:15 – Lunch

12:15 – 12:40 – Quiet Time (Halloween movie)

12:40-1 – Get ready into costumes

1:15 – Watch kids in the hallway parade by

1:30 – Parade downtown

2:15 – Snack and games in the room until 2:40 – Take off costumes and pack up.

Parents are welcome to come and help your student put on their costume & makeup.  Please send their costumes to school in a labeled bag or labeled hanger.  Please no fake weapons or gory costumes.  If you wish to sign them out early after the party, I will have a sign out sheet by my classroom for you.

Halloween Party

Wednesday

Just a friendly reminder about snacks for our party this Wed.

Halloween Party

Plates, cups, napkins – Christopher

Sweet treat - Essian

Sweet treat - Hannah

Veggies & dip - Nora

Fruit & dip - Dylan

Salty treat (popcorn or chips) - Karli

Cheese & crackers - Lakota

Drinks – chocolate milk, apple cider, or apple juice - Katelynne

This Friday, The McBain Ramblers will be playing for the District Championship game at Lake City!  Please come out and cheer on our Ramblers!

We will be having a PJ, popcorn, and a movie day the day after Halloween.  To celebrate all our great accomplishments for the month and to wind down after all the Halloween buzz. 

Please keep all the Halloween candy at home and not as lunch treats as we are trying to promote healthier choices.  Thank you!

Please remember to dress your kiddos for the weather.  It’s a good idea this time of year to always have hats, gloves, an extra sweatshirt, and extra socks in their backpacks.  Warm winter coats are needed when the temperature is below 40 degrees.  Once there is snow on the playground they will need snow boots and snow pants to play out in the snow, otherwise they may have to stand by the wall or on the pavement.  Please remember to put their names on everything!

 Please also practice letting your sons and daughters get themselves ready to go outside.  They need to be able to put on their snow pants, boots, coats, hats, and gloves all by themselves by January.  I will help and teach them to be as independent as they can be.  So please start practicing now.

Veteran’s Day

As Veteran’s day approaches I ask every student to ask their families if they have a veteran in their family. If you do Living, currently serving, or in memory of, I respectfully ask for you to fill out the attached form so we can create a bulletin board honoring our veterans within our families.

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Upcoming Events

·      Book Fair week – Oct. 22^nd

·      Parent/Teacher Conferences – Oct. 25^th

·      Half days – Oct. 25 & 26^th 11:35 dismissal time

·      Halloween Party & Parade – Oct. 31^st parade starts around 1:30 downtown

·      Thursday, Nov. 1^st – PJ’s & popcorn day

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

·      Sunday, Nov. 4^th – Daylight Savings

·      Tuesday, Nov. 6^th – Title 1 night @5:30-7

·      Sunday, Nov. 11^th – Veteran’s Day

·      Thursday, Nov. 15^th – NO school – Deer Day

NO Show-n-Tell this week due to the half-days

Remember there is no Title I night this Tuesday, it is rescheduled for Nov. 6^th.

Coins for Kids!  We are still collecting coins until next Tuesday!  We are in the top five!  Let’s win this challenge!  Please bring in some coins in the next few days!!!

This week in class!

Language Arts:  - Essential Question –How do tools help us explore?

Letter of the week – Pp

Sight word of the week – a (review - the, I, can, we, see, go, am & color words)

Vocabulary words – tools, discover, defeated, fetch, rumble

Color words

Reading –CAFÉ reader friend – Stretchy Snake – stretching out words to read. Reviewing Questioning Owl – ask and answer questions during a story for understanding – The 5 W’s

Focusing in on – Key Details, Title, Author, Illustrator, Genre

Reader’s workshop – Shopping for books, selected good-fit books, practicing 1-1 matching (finger to the right word)

Grammar – Verbs

Writing – Journal entries, complete their small moments writing pieces, creating sentences, pumpkin booklet.  Handwriting Pp practice.

Math: -

3.1 – Pattern block graph (homelink)

3.2 – Ten-bean spill (homelink)

Social Studies: - PBIS – school wide expectations.

Science: - Unit 2 – Barrier’s Up (Forces & Motion) Focus – How are things moving on the playground?  Phenomenon: video/picture of children pushing and pulling on the playground.

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

Book Fair This Week

We will be going to view books this Thursday, Oct. 26^th and making out a wish list.  Those will go home that afternoon and the next day we will go back and make purchases on Friday, Oct. 27^th. The book fair will be open from 1-7 on Thursday, the 26^th so if you just want to take your child’s wish list, you could come and purchase something from their wish list after our conference time.  Please do not feel obligated to purchase books just know that they are available for you and some of the proceeds helps out our school.

ATV Raffle Tickets

I am sending home a flyer about the ATV Raffle PTO is selling.  If you are interested in purchasing a ticket please fill it in with the money and return it to school in a labeled envelope.  I will make sure your ticket and money gets to Mr. Murphy for the drawing. 

Halloween Party

I am still in need of two more parent volunteers for our Halloween Party, please message me if your free or interest in helping out.

Schedule for our Halloween Party:

11:40-12:15 – Lunch

12:15 – 12:40 – Quiet Time (Halloween movie)

12:40-1 – Get ready into costumes

1:15 – Watch kids in the hallway parade by

1:30 – Parade downtown

2:15 – Snack and games in the room until 2:40 – Take off costumes and pack up.

Parents are welcome to come and help your student put on their costume & makeup.  Please no fake weapons or gory costumes.  

Halloween Party

Next Wednesday

Just a friendly reminder about snacks for our party next Wed.

Halloween Party

Plates, cups, napkins - Christopher

Sweet treat - Essian

Sweet treat - Hannah

Veggies & dip - Nora

Fruit & dip - Dylan

Salty treat (popcorn or chips) - Karli

Cheese & crackers - Lakota

Drinks – chocolate milk, apple cider, or apple juice - Katelynne

This Friday, The McBain Ramblers will be playing in the first round of the playoffs at home, against Pine River.

Let’s have a Green and Gold day to show our support for the McBain Ramblers this upcoming Friday!  Go Ramblers!!!

Picture Retake Day is going to be rescheduled at a later date, as our photographer is ill.  I’ll post the date as soon as I know.

Student of the Month!

Christopher Chase!

Favorite book: The Halloween Pumpkin Smasher

Favorite food: Pizza

Favorite color: Red

Favorite hobby:  Ride his bike

When he grows up he wants to be a Dad.

What he wants to learn at school is all about people.

His pets are: Chloe, Lady, & Web

He is five years old!

Congratulations Christopher keep up the great work!

We will be having a PJ, popcorn, and a movie day the day after Halloween.  To celebrate all our great accomplishments for the month and to wind down after all the Halloween buzz. 

Please keep all the Halloween candy at home and not as lunch treats as we are trying to promote healthier choices.  Thank you!