A Peek in the Week

Important Dates:

October 28^th: Title I Night- this was an orange paper that went home last week.  Please send it back ASAP if you plan on attending.

October 31^st: Afternoon Halloween party.  (Our morning will be full of specials.  We will have Music and P.E. in the morning that day so the fun will begin after lunch recess!)

November 3^rd: NO SCHOOL- Professional Development

November 6^th: NO SCHOOL- Parent/Teacher Conferences

November 27^th & 28^th: NO SCHOOL- Thanksgiving Break

Student of the Week: Our special student this week is Madelyn Carpenter! Madelyn is not too partial to favorites.  She loves all cats, all colors, and she wants to be many things when she grows up! Her favorite food is mac and cheese and her favorite sport to play is soccer!  Congratulations Madelyn! Your future looks bright! J

Reading:

This week our class will be focusing on the different ways we can move our bodies, such as running, kicking, waving, and hopping.

Here are some activities that you can do with your child to help reinforce the skills we’ll be practicing.

Word Workout

• Words to Know Have your child show and tell the meaning of the words, and then write a sentence using each word.
• Spelling/Phonics: beginning consonant blends Help your child identify the two beginning sounds that blend together in each spelling word. This week’s phonic sounds are beginning r- and s-blends, as in the words stop, grin, and drip. Help your child think of other words that begin with the same sounds.

Comprehension: key details

Have your child circle the sentence that tells a key detail about a picture. Then help your child identify more details in the picture.

Math: Our Unit 2 Math Test will be this Thursday and the pretest for Unit 3 will be on Friday.  Look for Unit 3’s Family Letter in your child’s mail soon.  The letter has all of the answers to Unit 3’s home links.  I know a couple of them have been a little tricky so this would be a good letter to clip to your fridge! J

Writing: The children will be organizing how to play a sport.  Yesterday we brainstormed ideas of different sports that they play or have heard of.  Then we reread a previously read story and talked about the sequence of events using words like first, next, then, and last.  We then chose a sport and charted the sequence of events to playing that particular sport.  Today they will have opportunity to put their words on to draft paper and eventually a final copy by Friday that will have an illustration to match.  The writing process is a lot of work! J