News From The Jungle

Reminder on outdoor recess and winter apparel:

The children will go outside for recess when the temperatures allow. It is very important that you have your child practice putting on and taking off their snow pants, snow boots, mittens/gloves, hats/ear muffs, scarves, etc. There is no way that we can help all of the students in the class zip, tie, on, off, etc and still have time to take them outside. Please help me by teaching your child how to independently put on and take off their winter apparel. Thank you for helping us make the most of our recess time!

Upcoming Events

11/26 PBIS – Turkey Bowling

11/27 – 11/29 No School! Happy Thanksgiving!

12/6 Scholastic Book Order Due (this way the books will be delivered before we leave for winter break!)

12/13 Gingerbread Activity! (sign-up genius TBD)

12/19 PBIS – Movie Theater

12/19 Winter Party (sign-up genius TBD)

12/20 Pajamas, Polar Express, and Pancakes! (sign-up genius TBD)

12/21 – 1/5 NO SCHOOL!!! Winter Break!

Agenda for the Week

Reading & Writing:  This week I reassessed some of the children with their reading levels and changed their reading groups in class. I also went back in and adjusted their Raz-Kids reading levels as well. Some of the children are really picking up sight words and decoding and are growing rapidly with their reading skills. I try to continually make sure I am keeping up with their growth and updating their levels in order to provide them with instruction at their individual reading level. Thank you for your support at home!

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.

List #3 will be assessed on 12/18. As a reminder the words are: find, from, but, this, came, on, will, into, be, your, that.

The blog post below gives more information about sight words lists and upcoming spelling tests as well as includes Jack Hartmann’s sight word videos for list #3:

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 Kk and Pp 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 onto 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: We continue discussing 2D and 3D shapes. The children are using tangrams to familiarize themselves with shapes and to use shapes to build biggers shapes and pictures. The children also used geoboards to explore shapes.

Science: We continued talking about different types of weather and discussing the different seasons. The children have been playing with different puzzles which build scenes of each season.

Social Studies:  We continued discussing the difference between a need and a want and identifying which is which.

Housekeeping Items:

Indoor Lineup

Indoor lineup is now at the 5th grade doors. Remember, even during indoor lineup, no parents are allowed in the building unless you have signed in at the front office.

Winter Apparel

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!

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