NEED TO KNOW:

• Our class Halloween party is Friday, October from 2:15-3:25 in room 102. The parade will be starting at 2.  Please make sure your child has their costumes in bags.  They will put their costumes on after lunch.
• There is no school on Tuesday, November 3^rd due to voting day. There is a ½ day on Friday, November 6^th for records day.
• We are coming to the end of our Social Studies unit, “How Do We Learn About the Past?”
• The DuVall pledge is at the end of the blog if you would like to practice it with your child.

SPELLING:  We are working on the “ar” chunk!  The words for the week are: car, are, art, far, star, yard

WRITING:  We just completed our “past, present, future” writing.  These stories will be hung in the hallway outside our classroom.  We will begin a short writing piece about things that we are thankful to have in our lives.

READING:  All students should be bringing their book bag home every day and the book bag needs to come back to school the next day.  Every child needs to read the books in their bag at home, even if they have read it before.  Rereading books helps with a child’s fluency. During our reading lessons we are learning:  how to read for punctuation and how to pay attention to interesting words.  We are also using our strategies that we have learned to help ourselves when we read.  Please do not stop your child every time he/she makes an error.  We want the students to monitor their own reading.  After the reading is finished, you can ask your child to go back to the page where he/she made a mistake.  Tell them that they got “tricked” and will need to reread carefully.  If they continue to make an error, direct them to look at the letters in the word, check the picture, reread and try the word out.  We want the students to use the visual information in the words along with the meaning of the story in the pictures to decode unknown words.  The rereading helps them to remember what the story is about.

MATH:  We will be working on story problems as well as using the number line for addition.  The students have also taken their first timed fluency test this week.  They had to complete 30 addition problems in 5 minutes.  We will continue these tests so that the students become fluent in basic math facts from zero to ten.

SCIENCE:   We are beginning to study Matter and Magnets.

SOCIAL STUDIES:  We are wrapping up our first unit, “How Do We Learn About the Past?”

Here is the DuVall Pledge:

I am a DuVall Student

I am honest and courteous.

I respect myself and others.

I am responsible, I do my work every day.

I have integrity, I make the right choices.

I value diversity and I am a peacemaker.

I am a good citizen and I am a lifelong learner.

HOORAY FOR ME!

HOORAY FOR DUVALL!

I AM A BUCKET FILLER!