Hello Families! Can you believe this beautiful warm weather? I hope you are enjoying it as much as I am.
Here are our plans for the week:
Monday: Halloween is tomorrow and Mr. Awada is allowing our students to dress in costumes if they wish. Please pay $1.00 to support our PTA if your child dresses up. It is not mandatory, so if your child does not want to wear a costume, this is completely fine. You may send a wrapped treat to pass out to each of our students (we have 26 children), but they will not eat the candy in school. They will bring it home with them. Please do not send any cupcakes, brownies, or other goodies that are unwrapped, as we cannot eat these in our classrooms. Thank you for your understanding.
Friday: We have a half day on Friday. Dismissal is at 11:45. There will not be lunch on this day.
Social Studies: We are talking about the past, present, and future. Students are giving examples of events in their life that happened in the past and present (now), and we are making predictions about what we might be doing in the future. We will begin looking at schools from the past and comparing them to schools now (present).
Science: We are still learning about the differences between the three states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases. Please continue to find examples right in your home of each. This helps them reinforce concepts we discuss in class.
Math: We will have our math test this week. We are learning to represent numbers in many ways (tally marks, tens and ones, dice, etc). Students must be able to add and subtract within 20. If this is still difficult for your child, please continue to practice at home. Using a number line and drawings are helpful strategies especially for the story problems.
Reading: We learned that adjectives are words that describe nouns (red, happy, beautiful). These words make reading and writing more interesting. Please have your child continue to read from his/her bag of books. We are working on the following:
1. Rhyming words
2. Nouns (people, places, and things)
3.Verbs (action words like run, jump)
4. Compound words (one word composed of two words like pancake, upside, downtown)
5. Synonyms (words that have the same meaning like little and small, big and huge)
6. Contractions words with apostrophes that replace two words like don’t= do not, can’t=can not
Writing: We are working on stating an opinion (topic sentence), providing reasons for this opinion (supporting details), and writing a closing sentence (conclusion). This week we will state our opinion about our favorite season.
Here are our spelling words for the week.
Spelling
Words
1. bath
2. both
3. with
4. other
5. mother
6. father
7. yes
8. no
9. as
10. has