Dates to Remember:
Monday, October 30 – Pumpkin Raffle. Howard teachers and staff have decorated pumpkins and will raffle them off on Monday and Tuesday this week. Tickets will be sold on Monday and Tuesday in the morning. Each ticket is $1.00. Send money in an envelope or baggie labeled with your child’s name. If you win a pumpkin, you will need to pick it up on Halloween at Howard by 4pm.
On Monday, at 3:45 we will have a short informational meeting about the new Leveled Literacy Intervention reading program. The meeting will be in Mrs. Smith’s Kindergarten classroom. This meeting is for parents and students in the LLI reading program. If you received a note in your child’s blue folder last week, your child is in the LLI reading program. Please consider attending, we would like to answer any questions you may have.
Tuesday, October 31 – Halloween parade at 1:30 pm. Costumes must be school appropriate and should fit over clothing. Masks, weapons, fake blood or violent themes are not allowed. Students will report to school wearing regular clothing. Costumes should come to school in a bag labeled with your child’s name. Children will be changing into their costumes when they return from lunch at 11:55 pm to get ready for the parade. After the parade students will change out of their costumes.
Thursday, November 2 – Library check in and check-out.
Friday, November 3 – Half day of school. Students report to school in morning and dismissal is at 11:45 am.
Peek at the Week:
Letters of the Week – Hh and Ii. Sight word – go
Writing – Narrative writing about favorite places we like to visit. Students worked on a narrative booklet on their visit to the zoo last week. They did an amazing job writing sentences and drawing illustrations to match.
Math – I am finishing up on math assessments this week for report cards. Number i.d., writing numbers 1-20, understanding greater than and less than with number comparison, counting by ones, tens and counting objects in groups.
Daily Five – I am finishing up on reading assessments for report cards this week. So, I will start up reading groups after assessments are finished. I will be assessing students for letter i.d., sounds, sight word fluency and leveled reading.
Science – We will finish up on physical science – Forces and Motion. Relationship between energy and forces.
Social Studies – We will finish up on the unit – How we Get along with Others.
If you did not get a chance to sign-up for parent teacher conferences on Open House night; I will be scheduling conference times later in the week. Parent – teacher conferences are scheduled for Thursday, November 9, Wednesday, November 15 and Thursday, November 16. I look forward to meeting with all of you and discussing your child’s progress.
Have a great day!
Mrs. Polgar