October News 2

October Events

·      Fire Prevention week – Oct. 6^th

·      Columbus Day – Oct. 14^th

·      Delayed start – Oct. 15^th

·      Book Fair week – Oct. 21^st -31^st  

·      Parent/Teacher Conferences – Oct. 24^th

·      Half days – Oct. 24 & 25^th - 11:35 dismissal time

·      Halloween Party & Parade – Oct. 31^st

·      Friday, Nov. 1^st – Half Day for Teacher PD – 11:35 dismissal time

Show-n-Tell this week for Letter A items

This week in class!

Language Arts:  - Essential Question –How do baby animals move?

Letter of the week – Aa

Sight word of the week – we

Vocabulary words – adventure, movement, arrived, exciting, exhausted

Color words & family words

Reading –CAFÉ reader friend – Spinner the Spider – Making connections to stories either text-self, text-text, text-world.  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 – Reader’s stamina, the best place to read, how reader’s workshop looks, feels, sounds.

Grammar – Uppercase/Capitals and lowercase letters & nouns

Writing – Journal entries, starting their own small moment stories, partner sharing.  Handwriting Aa practice.

Math: -

2.7 – Introduction to sorting (2 days)

        Homelink

2.8 – Getting to know circles – Homelink

2.9 – Ten Frames

Social Studies: - Columbus Day, Fire Safety Week.

Science: - Focus Q.:  How do we observe patterns?

Instructional Q.:  How do patterns inform us?

Phenomena:  Clothes we wear to school today (depending on the weather) Exploring Leaves

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

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.  If you misplace your reading calendar, just shoot me a message and I’ll send another one home.

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.

Parent Volunteers for our Halloween party needed. 

I would love to have about 3-5 parents volunteer to help out during our Halloween party.  If you are interested please shoot me an email and we can get things all lined up.

If you ever wish to volunteer within the classroom, we would love to have you and I’ll most certainly put you to work.  Just email me and we can work out days and times. 

Thank you, parents for investing your time and energy into your little one’s lives & academics!