Tuesday, November 7, 2017

November 6-10

DATES:
Nov 8—buy at the book fair
*Nov 9-- ½ day dismissal at 11:35
 Parent teacher conferences 1-7
*Nov 10-- ½ day—dismissal at 11:35
Nov 15 --NO SCHOOL— Deer Day
Nov 17-Kindergarten Stone Soup rotations (AM)
Nov 20--Delayed Start
Nov 21--Cut veggies (AM)
Nov 22—Stone Soup Feast (2PM)

**NO LUNCH is served on November 9 or 10.

PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES:
I’m looking forward to meeting with each of you regarding your child’s progress!!!

BOOK FAIR BUYING is Wednesday at 12:45
Please send the order forms with correct money in an envelope with your child’s name on it.  OR you can buy books when you come to conferences on Thursday!! It is located in the library.

READING:
The book for this week is ‘How do Dinosaurs Go To School?’  It’s about following rules.  We have been talking about rules being everywhere in our lives!  Discuss rules you have at home, and where else they have rules to follow.
Letter:  Ii
Sight Words:  to, it
Vocabulary: cooperate, rules
Category words:  Action words
Beanie Baby strategies:
We are introducing the Beanie CHUNKY MONKEY—He reminds us to chunk up words to sound out.

WRITING:
We will be looking at different leaves and writing/drawing about them as we practice to be a scientist.  We will go on a nature listening walk to the Butterfly Garden to gather items to write about.

SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES:
Practice ‘respect’ (our character for the month. 
We are beginning our wants and needs (learning about Market Economy) investigation leading up to our Stone Soup activities that start on the 17th.  On the 17th we will do a fair trade for items we need to make our stone soup on November 22.
We are also talking about Veterans Day and how we can show respect for our Veterans.

MATH:  We are putting numbers in order from biggest to smallest.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:
Madelyn
Madelyn likes to play with toys, Mario Kart and with her friends!
She likes peas, chicken nuggets and chocolate.  Madelyn wants to learn to read and write!  Her favorite movie is Frozen.