Monday, October 20, 2014

October 20-24
UPCOMING EVENTS:
October 20--Delayed start
October 22 Picture Retakes
Tuesday October 28 Family night 5:30-7:00
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Monday November 3  NO SCHOOL--Teachers have Professional Development
Thursday November 6 NO SCHOOL--Parent/Teacher Conferences

This week we finish letter Ss and begin our letter Pp.

READING:
Reading this week will focus on tools people use to help them with various activities in life (utensils to eat, pencils to write, tools to fix things, etc.).

WRITING:
We write in our journals every day. 
Because of the rainy weather last week we will go outside this week to gather things from nature and drawing them using details and writing labels next to the picture using sounds we hear.

MATH:
Children by this time of the year should be counting to 25.  We will continue counting activities as well as activities with Halloween and nature theme.  Counting, sorting and patterning.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
We will be reading nonfiction books on spiders and pumpkins.  This week we will be deciding on how we will carve our Jack-o-Lantern.


PERSON OF THE WEEK:

Monday, October 13, 2014

October 13-17
We've been busy in October!  We've worked on the letters Aa and Mm.  The next letter we will be working on is Ss.
We've learned the sight words I, the, see, can and we.

CHANGES:
We will be changing our gym days this week again to TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY.


UPCOMING EVENTS:
Oct 14--VIsion and Hearing screening
October 20--Delayed start
October 22 Picture Retakes

READING:
Reading this week will focus on our five senses and how children can use the 5 senses to explore their world.

WRITING:
We write in our journals every day.
This week we will also be gathering things from nature and drawing them using details and writing labels next to the picture using sounds we hear.

MATH:
Math we will be looking at patterns around us, oral counting, putting numbers in order and using words to describe spatial relations (beside, above, below).

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
We will be reading nonfiction books on spiders and pumpkins.


PERSON OF THE WEEK:
Last week our Person of the week was Olivia.  Olivia likes to play with dolls. When she grows up she wants to drive a semi with horses in it.

This week our Person of the week is Kaylee.  She loves her horse and camping.  When she grows up she wants to be the Incredible Dr. Pol.