News From The Jungle

Please practice putting on and taking off coats, boots, shoes, scarves, gloves, etc. As well as buttoning/zipping coats and tying their own shoes. Your child should be able to do all of these things independently!

Upcoming Events

10/29 PBIS Party – Cider and Donuts

10/31 School Costume Parade/Class Halloween Party

11/1 Half Day – Dismissal at 11:40am

11/5 No School

11/7 Conferences – If you signed up for this date, reminders of the time you signed up for will come home a week prior!

11/8 50th Day of School Glow Party! (A sign-up genius will be posted next week for donations to make this day a success for the children!)

11/11 Book Fair in Library (2:30 -3:00)

11/12 Conferences – If you signed up for this date, reminders of the time you signed up for will come home a week prior!

Agenda for the Week

Reading & Writing:  Please continue to have your child practice writing sentences at home by pretending they are holding an imaginary rubberband and stretching it as they slowly say the word they are trying to spell. They may be trying to write the sentence, “The gray elephant is eating peanuts.” and it may look like this, “G lft E P.” Or it could look like this if they know their sight words, “The gra elifnt is etng pnts.” We work on phonetic spelling at this point in the year and use our letter sounds to spell words. I do not expect all of the words to be spelled correctly, but I do look for their to be some letter sound correspondence.

We continued learning sight words this week. The children took their assessment on Wednesday and I am so proud of all of their efforts! Many of the children were able to read and write most, if not all, of the words! List #2 came home on Wednesday as well. The assessment for this list will be on 11/20. As a reminder the words are: my, you, what, are, now, is, of, so, how, many, where.

All children are receiving one-on-one tutor time on the sight words using flash cards, magnetic letters, dry-erase white boards, and much more! If your child already knows the words on the list, we are working on having them write them! They have not truly mastered the word until they can read it and use it in their writing as well!

This week we worked on the letters Gg and Tt, as well as the sounds these letters make. We learned how to write each letter and where each letter should be written on the line.

Please utilize RazKids, Readingeggs, and Mathseeds at home. These are all wonderful resources to progress your child’s skills. When your child first logs on to Readingeggs and Mathseeds, it will ask them to take an assessment. This assesses their skill set and places them at the lesson that is best suited for them. Some of your children may start on lesson one or some may start on lesson nine. I love these programs because they place the kids at their own learning level!

Math: This week we continued counting, counting on from any given number, one-to-one correspondence, using number bonds, and addition. The focus this week was counting and adding “one more”, then counting again to see how many “all together.” This is the beginning concept of addition by 1s (1+1, 2+1, 3+1….).

Science: This week we continued learning about force and motion! We are focusing on push and pull. The children discussed things they can push and things they can pull.

Social Studies:  We continue focusing on identifying our feelings and using our words to express how we feel rather than using actions. We are fortunate to have the social worker pushing in to our room on Monday mornings to help us further our understanding of our feelings, identify them, and use them to express how we feel and what we want. We learned sentence stems this week to use our words to work through problems such as “I don’t like it when…” “It made me feel…” “Next time, please…” “I am sorry for…” and “I am sorry I made you feel…” This has been a great time of learning for the children and a great way for them to express themselves. I am happy the children feel comfortable to share their feelings in class and glad we are taking the time to focus instruction on the social-emotional needs of our children!

Housekeeping Items:

Folders

Please make sure to empty the folder 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. Please be sure to send the folder to school each day. It is a big part of our arrival and dismissal routines and the folders help the children keep all of their papers organized