Week of November 7-11

DATES:

Thursday November 10    ½ day afternoon and evening Parent Teacher conferences

November 11   ½ day—Veteran’s Day

November 15  NO SCHOOL –Deer day—Safe hunting!

November 21 Delayed Start/Kindergarten Thanksgiving rotations in the afternoon

November 22—Vegetable cutting

November 23—Stone Soup feast in the afternoon

READING:

Our focus this week is rules that we follow.  We will look at rules we follow wherever we are!

Letter:  Ii

Sight words:  it & to

Vocabulary:  cooperate, rules

Category words:  action words

Beanie Baby:  Introducing Chunky Monkey—the monkey reminds us to look at chunks (may be word family words)  -ig, -in, -it, ip are a few we will be using chunky monkey to help sound out words.

WRITING:

We went on a nature walk on Monday and brought back leaves, sticks, seeds, rocks and grass to be a scientist and explore.  We will sketch and write about the things we discovered in nature.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:

The beginning of the week we looked at voting.

We also are beginning to talk about wants and needs and fair trade in preparation for our Stone Soup week.

MATH:

We are looking at numbers and putting them in order.