October 25

Dear Families,

Here’s an update on what’s happening in our team:

 

Reminders:

November 3^rd: Election Day, no school for students

November 6^th: end of first card marking

November 12/13: Special Person Breakfast, more info to come!

November 19: half day of school with a 12:30 dismissal and Conferences from 1-4 and 5-8, more info to come!

November 25-29: No school for Thanksgiving Break

 

 

 

 

 

Fun Run Pictures!

 

 

Halloween Party: Thank you to our Party Planners. We’re looking forward to a great party next Friday. Please be sure that your child’s costume is appropriate (not too scary) for school. Children will change out of costumes after the party so that they can enjoy lunch and recess without worrying about their costumes. Please send in a bag to store their costume in. Our celebration will begin at 10:05am.

 

Making our Halloween Decorations

 

Language Arts: This week in Reading Workshop, we focused oral and written retellings.  Your child practiced retelling a fictional story including all the elements to a solid retelling.  Next week, we will focus on retelling non-fiction texts.

 

Word Work: In word work, we worked on the long /a/ sound including words with ay and ai.  It is very helpful to point these types of words out to your child when reading with him/her at home. Next week, we'll work on words with the long e patterns, ee, ea, ey.

 

Writing Workshop: We worked on finishing up our blog posts! We had fun on Friday commenting on posts.  Many students are blogging from home! Keep practicing logging on, drafting a post and commenting. Next week, we will finish up our first personal narrative unit we've  been working on, taking our writing pieces through the writing process.

 

 

 

These are some of our amazing paper blogs!

 

 

Math: This past week, we did lesson 2.3, 2.5, and 2.2 if you are following along with the homelinks.  We will be having our Unit 2 test next Thursday with an in-class review on Wednesday.  We always send home the review at the beginning of the unit so you know what types of questions your child will be tested on.  This was sent home during the week of Oct. 12.  Please go over the review at home with your child.  The review should not be returned to class.

 

Science and Social Studies: We started learning about Unit 2, People and Places.  The students are working on a fun activity called, “Me on the Map” where the students wrote and illustrated pictures of their  houses, city, state, country and Earth.  We will finish up Unit 2 next week and move onto our first Science unit, Earth’s Land and Water.

 

Homework:

• Math Homelinks were sent home as an attachment.
• IXL Skills: Use sections E, F and M on IXL (Addition of One Digit, Subtraction of One Digit and Place Value, addition word problems).
• Have your child retell a story he/she is reading at home.
• Practice math 10-15 minutes a night and reading for 10-15 minutes a night. Please complete this in any way that works best for you and your family.

 

Have a great weekend!