Oct. news 5

Upcoming Events

·      Halloween Party & Parade – Oct. 31^st parade starts around 1:15 or 1:30 downtown

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

·      Friday, Nov. 1^st – half-day 11:35 dismissal – for Teacher PD

·      Sunday, Nov. 3rd – Daylight Savings

(Check your smoke alarms)

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

·      Tuesday, Nov. 12^th – Title I Night @5:30-7

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

·      Monday, Nov. 18^th – Delayed start

·      Thursday, Nov. 22^nd – K report cards will go home

·      Mon., Nov. 25^th – Stone Soup Rotations Day and Trade Day

·      Tues., Nov. 26^th – Cut up veggies for our feast.

·      Wed., Nov. 27^th – Stone Soup Feast Day.

·      Thanksgiving Break Thurs, Nov. 28- Fri., Nov. 29th.

No Show-n-Tell again this week

Due to half-days

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

October Book-it!  Don’t forget to turn in your October reading calendar’s, at the end of this week or next 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 & at (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.

Cycle 3 – Focus Q.– How do people prepare for the weather?

Instructional Q. – How do people prepare for different types of weather?

Phenomena – Tornado Drill

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

I now have enough super parent volunteers for our party day!  Thank you!

Approximate Schedule for our Halloween Party:

11:40-12:15 – Lunch

12:15 – 12:45 – Quiet Time (Halloween movie)

12:45-1 – Get ready into costumes

1:00 – Classroom pictures

1:15 – Watch kids in the hallway parade by & join in at the end

1:30 – Parade downtown

2:00 – Snacks and games in the room

2:30 – All school recess and sign-outs in my room.

Parents are welcome to come and help your student put on their costume & makeup.  Parents are encouraged to watch the parade of students downtown.  Please no fake weapons or gory costumes.

    Halloween Party

This Thursday

Just a friendly reminder about snacks for our party.

Halloween Party

Thursday, Oct. 31^st

Skylar –         Juice, Cider, or Chocolate Milk

Aras –           Sweet Treat

Emelia –        Sweet Treat

Larissa –        Salty treat (chips/pretzels/popcorn)

Karli –           Fruit treat

Evelyn –        Veggies & dip

Mayson –        Cheese & crackers

Christian –      Cups, napkins, & plates

This Friday, The McBain Ramblers will be playing in the first round of playoffs against Oscoda!  If they wish to wear green & gold this Friday that is great too!

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.

Please no real photographs just copies of the originals would be great.  If you need more than one just let me know.