News From the Jungle

Please be sure to put your child on reading eggs and math seeds each night. It can be for just 10 minutes per night, but it will greatly improve their reading, writing, and math. You could do 10 minutes of reading eggs on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Then do 10 minutes of math seeds on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday or Sunday. Feel free to do more than 10 minutes if your schedule allows! These programs really are beneficial for the growth and development of your child!

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Upcoming Events

10/30 Field trip permission slip coming home — Be on the lookout!

10/31 Costume Parade (all families welcome to parade at 2:30)

11/1Parent Teacher Conference Reminders will be sent home!  Be on the look out for your day and time!

11/3 Half Day- dismissal at 11:40am

11/3 Sight word test~ List ONE!

11/3– Star Student will start on Monday! (Each Friday, a student will be selected as Star Student for the following week. On Friday, the child will bring home a poster to be completed over the weekend and returned on Monday)

11/5 Daylight Savings Time – Fall Back

11/6 Field trip money and permission slip due

11/6 School Shirt Order Due

11/7 NO SCHOOL! Election Day

11/9 Parent Teacher Conference Day (Look for your date/time coming home on 11/1 stapled to your child’s folder)

11/10 Picture Re-take Day

11/13 Scholastic Book Order Due

11/13 -11/17 Scholastic book fair at school (Family night 15th and 16th)

11/15 Late Start – arrival at 9:35

11/15 Parent Teacher Conferences

11/16 Parent Teacher Conferences

11/17 No School for Kindergarten

11/21 Up, Up, and Away Assembly

11/22 – 11/26 NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING BREAK

11/30 PBIS Celebration – Turkey Bowling

Agenda for the Week

Reading and Writing:  We worked on recognizing and writing the letter G and the letter T. We learned the sound of each letter and practiced identifying objects that begin with each letter sound. Please continue to help your child correctly hold a pencil and form each letter.

We completed a retelling of The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything. The children loved this story and were able to sequence the events which took place. Ask your child to retell this story to you, using the sequence map they brought home on Wednesday.

We worked on our writing this week and focused on beginning the sentence with an uppercase (capital letter), having finger spaces between words, and ending the sentence with a period. We have also been working to identify periods, question marks, and exclamation marks (excited mark) while reading. Here is a fun video about parts of a sentence:

I began teaching the children about verbs this week. We practiced all week long. The children learned that an verb is an action word. We completed several worksheets and practiced identifying verbs within sentences. Here is the verb video we use to help support our learning:

We also reviewed that an adjective is a describing word. Here is our adjective video:

We also reviewed that a noun is a person, place, thing, or animal. Here is our noun video:

The link to  create name tracers is also great for creating sight word tracers for your child.

If you would like to create tracing pages for your child, visit the website below:

https://www.handwritingworksheets.com/flash/printdots/singleword/index.html

Directions: Scroll down until you see a gray rectangle which says, “Step 1: Enter student name, then type your child’s name in the first box and the second one which says, “word” OR type in sight words. Choose the size you would like, size 2 or size 3 are best. Then click print.

Here are some videos we use in class to help with letter recognition and letter sound identification:

Math: We practiced recognizing, writing and representing numbers 15 and 16. We continued working with 2D and 3D shapes. We will do a quick assessment next week on these shapes where the students will have to cut and sort 2D and 3D shapes.

We have been working on subitizing. This is the ability to recognize a number or quantity at first sight. It might be fingers, tally marks, dots in a ten frame, or different objects to represent a number. Here are a few videos we use in class:

We also practiced counting by 5’s we have been working on this little by little when we make tally marks on our morning work and during math workshop. Below find a video to help your child learn how to count by 5’s:

Here are a few videos we use in class:

Science: We did a little experiment with push and pull. The children enjoyed making predictions about things we push and pull and how fast a toy car could go on a flat service, smooth elevated surface, and bumpy surfaces. We also used a pendulum and “pulled” it to set it in motion and discovered different objects it could knock over. The children also participated in a simple magnet experiment. These hands on activities were a big hit!

Social Studies: We continue learning how to be a good friend and student. We review our rules and procedures daily. We are wrapping up our citizenship unit and will be moving on to needs and wants.

We are still working hard at trying to win the lunchroom challenge. The children must stay in their seat, raise their hand if they need help, and clean up after themselves. After talking with the lunch moms, they said our group is struggling with cleaning up after themselves. Please reinforce this skill at home and help them become independent with cleaning up their own messes!

Thank you PTA for our lovely pumpkins!

Housekeeping Items:

I know these items have been repeated for a few weeks, but I still need your help in implementing the items below:

Change of Clothes

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send in a change of clothes for your child. We will keep it in their locker and then if they have a bathroom accident or fall in mud or get wet from the playground, they will have clothes they can change into and we can take care of all that right here at school without having to disturb you at home or at work. Put an extra change of clothes (pants, underwear, shirt, socks, and maybe even an extra pair of shoes) in a bag, labeled with their name on it.

Snack Time

**** Due to a peanut allergy in our room, please do not send in any snacks that contain nuts.*****

Folders

Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Remember to initial the communication log and feel free to add any notes to me!