OCTOBER 24-28

DATES TO REMEMBER:

October 25:  Picture retakes

***October 21-31 Book Fair:  Have money and book wish list to school by Tuesday October 25—remember to add state tax!

      Buy books on October 26 (12:20-12:45)

October 31--Bat program with Mrs. Quist in the morning, Halloween parade and party in the afternoon.

November 1:  NO SCHOOL--Teachers have professional development

November 4:  report cards go home

November 10: 1/2 day and Parent/Teacher conferences (1-4, 5-8—you will receive a scheduled time soon)

November 11: 1/2 day

Coins for kids has finished!!  Thank you to all who donated!

HALLOWEEN: 

The morning we will be having a guest speaker to help us learn about bats. 

Halloween party is fast approaching. 

I will send reminders of what you indicated the first day of school that you might be able to help with for our party.  Children are to bring their costumes in their backpacks to school on Halloween.  Please NO face paint, make up or weapons of any kind, including fairy wands.  Please make them easy on and off costumes,  and send comfortable shoes to walk in as we follow the upper elementary children in an Elementary parade downtown  (weather permitting)—when we return back from downtown we parade through the middle school and high school before returning to our classroom.  Once back, we will take our costumes off and eat our treats.  We encourage parents to be down town by 1:00 for the children to parade past you!

We will be making ‘trick-or-treat’ bags in the classroom if you would like to send in candy, pencils, stickers, etc. for your child to pass out to their friends (we now have 22 children in our class).

All of the children’s home books should be returned home from their book box here.  Please check to make sure your child has the correct books—some might have taken someone else’s book home by mistake.  Please return any books that went to the wrong home!

READING:

Letter Tt

Sight word: like ( we sing to the Barney song:  “I like you, you like me, we spell like l-i-k-e!”)

We are learning about shapes around our world.

Vocabulary words:  materials, nature, decorations, games, world

Category words:  shape words

Beanie Baby:  Picturing Penguin—He tells us to picture the story in our minds while we are reading.

WRITING:

We will write in our journals every day. 

We will be finishing up with writing sentences then move on to List, observe and label.

We will make a “What will you be for Halloween?” class book

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:

We will continue to read stories about spiders, bats and pumpkins.  We will be talking about Halloween trick-or-treating safety.

Last Friday we carved our Jack-o-Lantern that Sophie brought in!  We exercised our right to vote, by each voting on the eyes, nose and mouth we thought we should have on it!  Then we worked together to sort out seeds.  Ms. Thompson will roast them for us to try at our Halloween party.  We will also be making our own applesauce this coming Friday to enjoy at our party!

MATH:

We have a number of Halloween pieces (erasers and table scatter pieces) that we have been using to pattern, count and sort.  We will continue to use them during Math work time.

Our lessons will be about shapes, number books, figuring out longer and shorter and doing an obstacle course using position words (over, under, around, etc.)  We will learn a geo board ap on our Ipads.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:  Payton:

Payton loves dinosaurs and swimming!  He lives on a farm.  Payton’s favorite foods are cupcakes, watermelon, ice cream cones and BBQ ribs.  His favorite movie is Jurassic World.  His favorite books are dinosaur books.  Payton wants to learn to read, write, and drive a tractor.