October 30-November 3

DATES:

October 31 (PM)--Halloween party

  Parade at 1:00 downtown McBain—weather permitting—If it rains, be in the middle school gym by 1:00 and we will parade there shortly after.

November 1 --NO SCHOOL—Teacher Professional Development

November 2—shop at the book fair

November 3 --Report cards home

    Family Movie night

November 8—buy at the book fair

November 9-- ½ day

   Parent teacher conferences 1-8

November 10-- ½ day

November 15 --NO SCHOOL— Deer Day

HALLOWEEN:

Please send costumes in their back pack.  We do not dress until after 1230!  Kindergarten is not going to the wax museum.  We will be ready to watch the beginning of the parade by 1:00.  If you are coming to watch, please go downtown (if the weather is good) or in the middle school gym—they will tell us in the morning what they are choosing.  She said she’d post on Facebook on the Elementary page if we are inside.  We’d love to have you along the parade route to cheer us on whether we are downtown or inside!!!

Please no make up or weapons for the school Halloween party.

Parent volunteers can arrive at 12:30 to help dress

Please remember, if your child wears boots to school to have shoes in their backpack.  Plus 1-2 pairs of mittens.  2 pairs help so they have dry mittens for each recess.

BOOK IT:

October Book it calendars may come in on Thursday!!  November ones will go home on Thursday too!

PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES:

Thank you for returning the orange confirmation notes for parent/teacher conferences.  I am booked pretty tight from 1-7:15—but I will try to switch if you cannot make it.  I’m looking forward to meeting with each of you regarding your child’s progress!!!

READING:

This is a review week of the letters (a,m,p, s, t) and sight words (I, can, the , we, see, a, like)  that we have investigated so far this year.  Our big book is all about bugs!

Vocabulary:  curious, observe

Category words:  Movement words

Beanie Baby strategies:  Pop the weasel—helps us to remember that our sight words should POP right out as we read them.  Iggy the Inferring Iguana reminds us to make predictions about what we are reading and inferences as we read, then validate or adjust our predictions as we read.

WRITING:

We will be looking at different leaves and writing/drawing about them as we practice to be a scientist.

SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES:

We will be talking about Halloween safety.  Practice ‘respect’ (our character for the month.  We will read scarecrow and fall harvest stories.

MATH:  We will be looking in to numbers and different ways we can represent them (fingers, tally marks, ten frames, using beads or counters).