News from the Jungle
November 1, 2019
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
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. Next week we will begin learning how to write opinion pieces.
List #2 came home and 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 Hh and Ss, 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: For the rest of the year we will continue counting, counting on from any given number, one-to-one correspondence, using number bonds, and addition. The focus for the next few weeks is going to be 2D and 3D shapes.
Science: We finished up our unit on force and motion! Next week we will begin our unit on weather!
Social Studies: We will continue citizenship all year and working on being a good friend and student. Next week we will begin our unit on needs and wants.
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
