Friday Note (10/6/17)
**PTA Fall Festival is tomorrow on the playground from 5:00-7:30 with a movie following. **
Events of the Week:
Math: We continued working with numbers 0-10. We started working on 1 more this week. For example 4 is 1 more than 3. Your child should be able to identify numbers 0-10 now.
Language Workshop: Our theme this week was fall. We learned about nonfiction books (informational) by reading books called Fall and Exploring Fall. We noticed that nonfiction books usually have a table of contents, an index, a glossary, and photographs instead of drawings. After reading these nonfiction books, we made a list of important key details that we learned about fall. We added this information to our reading logs. We paid special attention to the changes that are happening all around us.
Writing Workshop: Each day we completed a page about fall using sight words we know and the numbers we have learned to write so far. Please have your child read this book to you. We worked together as a class to complete writing pages Monday through Wednesday. On Thursday and Friday we only talk about what the sentence should say as a class. Everyone wrote 100% by themselves the last two days. I looked at all their papers but we didn’t make any corrections because I wanted you to see how well they are doing on their own! I am very proud of them!
Word Study: Our sight word was “it”. We learned about the letters “Rr”, “Ss”, “Tt” & “Uu”. Don’t forget to practice letter and sound identification with your child at home.
Content Workshop: We learned about pumpkins. Murfins Market in Clever has donated pumpkins for each of our students to decorate to be displayed in the store. Be watching for these in the upcoming weeks. They also donated a class pumpkin that we used for some investigations. We described the pumpkin, measured how tall it was using linking cubes and made predictions on whether we thought it would sink or float. We also sorted through all the goo to pick out the seeds to count them. Be sure to ask your child about the “pumpkin ooze” experiment we did today and check out the pictures on Seesaw.
Important Dates:
- Oct. 7: Fall Festival 5:00-7:30 on the playground with movie following festival
- Oct. 11 ~ Reading Challenge Due
- Oct. 12 ~ End of 1st Quarter
- Oct. 12 ~ Cox Care Mobile
- Oct. 13 ~ NO SCHOOL (Fall Break)
- Oct. 16-17 ~ Parent/Teacher Conferences (see below for details)
- Oct. 18- Book order due
- Oct. 16-20 Book Fair in the Library (We will visit during specials on that Wed.)
- Oct. 23-27: Red Ribbon Week
- Oct. 27: Halloween Party 12:00-1:00 (Parent set-up & costume change beginning at 11:30)
Parent-Teacher Conferences
Parent-Teacher conferences will be held October 16th and 17th. I posted the link on Seesaw last week. If you still need to sign up you may sign-up online at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0a44a8ae23a64-1stquarter . All parents are expected to schedule a conference time. I look forward to meeting with you.
Halloween Party
Our Halloween Party will be October 27th. Please send in $15.00 to help cover the expense of all parties if you have not already done so.. We will eat a sack lunch in our classroom before parents arrive for the party. After lunch, we will begin changing into costumes at 11:30. Kindergarten parents are welcome to help at that time to help change into costumes. We will parade through the school in our costumes. The party will begin after the parade and last until 1:00. 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!
Box Top Challenge!!!
Please turn in your Box Tops, Labels for Education, and Best Choice labels. The current challenge ends on Oct. 20th. This is a monthly challenge so continue sending the labels to school. The class with the most turned in will earn a class party! Send them in with teacher name and grade and PTA will do the rest. Thank you!
Reading Challenge
I hope you and your child have enjoyed completing the Reading Challenge. Please return your child’s reading challenge paper to school by Oct. 11th. We will celebrate our reading challenge and have a read-a-thon in our classroom on October 12th. Be looking for details regarding our next reading challenge.
1st Quarter Assessments
Next week we will finish assessing over 1st Quarter skills. If your child has already scored “Proficient” in an area, he/she will not be assessed over that skill again this quarter. Please be sure to practice at home!
Next Week:
- We will continue learning about Fall. We will learn about Fire Safety. The Clever Fire Department will come to our school to teach us important fire safety tips.
- We will work on adding details to our writing by writing a fun story about a scarecrow.
- In math, we will begin talking about 1 more and 1 less.
- Our sight word will be “he”.
- Our letters for the week will be “Vv”, “Ww” & “Xx”.
Have a Great Weekend!
Mrs. Vaughn
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