Oct. news 5

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.