October 16

Update

Dear Families,

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

Reminders:

October 30^th: Halloween Parade (9:15), Party 10:05-10:50ish

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!

Halloween Party: Thank you to our Party Planners. We’re looking forward to a great party. 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.

Language Arts: This week in Reading Workshop, we focused on Fiction Retelling as our Comprehension Strategy. Students wrote retellings in their reading journals based on stories that we read in class. Next week, we’ll continue to practice oral and written retellings.

Word Work: In word work, we worked on digraphs. We sorted and practiced working with words with the ch, sh, th, wh, and ph sounds.  Next week, we will work on words with the long /a/ sound.

Writing Workshop: We worked on writing our first blog posts on paper! We created blog lists of our interests so that we’ll always have ideas for posts. We’re learning about the importance of proofreading and editing so that our audiences can read our writing. We also worked on learning about the expectations for commenting. We commented on each other's paper blog posts. Next week, we’ll continue to practice commenting on others’ blogs, digital citizenship, and the responsibility of being a blogger online.

Math: Please sign and return Unit One tests, if you haven’t already. We took Unit 2 pretests this week and began studying Unit Two. We’ve completed Lessons 2.1 and 2.4 and are learning about addition strategies. Next week, we will be working on lessons 2.3, 2.5, and 2.2.  These lessons focus on addition strategies such as doubles, near doubles and solving word problems.

Science and Social Studies: We’re finishing up our studies of communities and government and soon will begin learning about People and Places.

Homework:

Math Homelinks: These were emailed to you in a PDF format.

IXL Skills: Use sections E, F and M on IXL (Addition of One Digit, Subtraction of One Digit and Place Value).

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.

We had a great time at Fun Run today! Thank you to all the families that supported Deerfield!

Have a great weekend!