Events
of the Week:
Math: This week we started a new math topic over numbers 1-5. We practiced identifying, counting, and
writing each number. Please practice
writing these numbers at home with your child.
Earlier in the week, I assessed each child over measurement and I am
excited and proud to say that every student scored proficient on this test! This assessment was sent home today.
Language
Workshop: Our focus this week was on color review. Our book for the week was Brown Bear,
Brown Bear, What Do You See?. We
read and practiced retelling this story using our story wheels. We also made our own “Brown Bear Reader” to
add to our book boxes. Students had fun buddy reading with
these books. We also read several other
fun color books like The Day the Crayons Quit, When the Crayons Came
Home, and Pete the Cat: I like My White Shoes. We wrote a letter to a crayon that went along
with the book The Day the Crayons Quit.
I asked students to label their pictures and they did a great job
sounding out the words!
Reading
Workshop: This week during literacy centers I worked with
students in small groups on being able to identify sight words, letters and
letter sounds. Next week I will be
reading with students individually checking their understanding of concepts of
print. I’m using a level A text with
sight words they should know (Ex: I like apples.). I am asking your child questions such as,
“Can you show me where to begin reading?” “How many words are in that sentence?”
“Where would you read next?” “Can you point to an ending mark?”. I’m also looking to see if they are using the
picture for clues.
Writing
Workshop: Each day we
wrote a sentence from the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?. As a class we set at the carpet with a
clipboard and talked about what we were going to write for the day. Once we decided what our sentence was we
counted the number of words in the sentence, we used sight words and color words
to complete the sentence. Once the
sentence was complete, students got to draw a picture to
match the sentence. We call this process
“Interactive Writing”. Look for these
papers in their folder. Your child
should be able to read each page to you independently.
Content
Workshop: We did
several different color mixing experiments this week! We used water color, shaving cream and water
to mix primary colors to make secondary colors.
We predicted what color we thought it would make then recorded our
results.
We also got
to finger paint with primary colors and experiment to see what new colors we
could come up with.
Our sight word was “see” and our letters for the week
were “Ff” and “Dd”.
Important
Dates:
·
Oct.
4 ~ Fundraiser money and order forms due
·
Oct.
8 ~ Fall Festival (5-8 pm on the elementary playground)
·
Oct.
12 ~ Book Orders Due
·
Oct.
14 ~ End of 1st Quarter & End of 1st Quarter Reading
Journey
·
Oct.
17 ~ Fall Break-No School
·
Oct.
18 ~ School Pictures
·
Oct.
18-20 ~ Parent/Teacher Conferences (see below for details)
·
Oct 28 ~ Halloween Party (see below for details)
1st Quarter Assessments
Next week we will begin assessing over 1st
Quarter skills. Some of the skills we
will be assessing over are letter identification, sight words, counting to 25, measurement,
sorting, shapes, positional words, parts of a book, and author/illustrator. If your child has already scored “Proficient”
in an area, he/she will not be assessed over that skill again this
quarter.
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Halloween Party
Our Halloween Party will be October 28th. We will
begin changing into costumes at 11:30. Parents are welcome to help at
that time. Parents may also start setting up for the party at this
time. At 11:45 we will parade through the school in our costumes.
The party will begin after the parade, at approximately 12:00 and last until
12:30. Please remember to send your child’s costume to school
that morning! Do not bring it with you—you never know when you
might be delayed unexpectedly.
*Special
note about costumes—NO weapons of any kind allowed, please keep blood and
gore to a minimum!
If you would like to
help out with the party and have not returned the form I sent home from our
room mom please let me know and I will send home another one.
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Reading
Journey
I hope you
and your child have enjoyed completing the Reading Journey. Please return the Reading Journey activities
page by Friday, October 14th.
We will celebrate our reading journey and have a read-a-thon in our
classroom the following week. We will
begin another Reading Journey very similar to this one for second quarter. Be looking for more details to come
home.
Parent-Teacher Conferences
Parent-Teacher
conferences will be held October 18th and 20th. All parents are expected to schedule a
conference time. You may sign-up online
at:
Next
Week:
·
Our
theme will be Fall. We will learn about
informational (non-fiction) books.
·
In
math, we will continue our topic on numbers 1-5.
·
Our
sight word will be “it”.
·
Our
letters for the week will be “Ll” and “Kk”.
Have a Great Weekend!!
Mrs. Vaughn
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