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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Today a poster came home with our first Star Student! Each week I will send a poster home with a different child on Friday. The poster is to be completed over the weekend and sent back to school on Monday. We will learn about the Star Student throughout the week and then write a book about that child on Friday. This is a special time for the children. Every child will have the opportunity to be the Star Student!

There is a lot going on next week. Please take a look below to make sure you are aware of all the due dates and no school days for next week.

Upcoming Events

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:  I assessed the children on sight word list one. Please continue to work with your child on these words. A list of these words came home in their folder with a check mark next to the words they were able to read and highlighted if they could not read the word. List two will be the next list that is assessed on November 16. Please review these words as well as the words on list one with your child.

We worked on recognizing and writing the letter H and the letter S. 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 continue to work on our writing and reviewed that the beginning of a sentence starts with an uppercase (capital letter), there are finger spaces between words, and we end 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:

We reviewed nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

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.

Math: We practiced recognizing, writing and representing numbers 17 and 18. We continued working with 2D and 3D shapes. We are still working on counting by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s. Please practice these skills with your children at home and use the videos below to support their learning.

We continue 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:

Science: We began our unit about weather. The children are learning about different types of weather this month. We will focus on sun, rain, and clouds. We talked about how to dress for different kinds of weather and learned lots of weather words. We will be learning about weather for the next few months and the children will have the opportunity to do some hands-on experiments!

Social Studies: We are moving into our needs and wants unit. The children talked with one another about items they think are things they need and items they think are wants. We will continue talking more about this topic and participate in different activities next week.

The children had a great day on Halloween. Our party was a big success and the parade was so much fun! Here are a few pictures to enjoy from the day:

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!