News and Information:

Tuesday, October 2nd:  PTA meeting, 6:00

Monday, October 8th:  Field Trip to the Apple Orchard

Wednesday, October 17th:  Late Start

What We Did This Week:

ELA: 

• Our letters of the week were Aa, Dd
• Our sight words were come, at (we will add these to our ring of words Monday).
• We read stories with rhyming words, we talked about “the characters” of our stories and the beginning, middle and end of our stories.
• Our Poem this week was “Look!”
• We rotated through Daily 5 (read to self, work on writing and word work).  We are beginning to meet in small groups.
• In Writer’s Workshop students wrote in their journals after participating in a “shared writing” with me.  They are helping to record the sounds they here in words.

Math:

• We had 4 lessons this week on forming numbers 4 and 5, number sentences and breaking apart numbers.

Leader in Me/ Social Studies:

• We are developing our mission statement.
• We discussed the needs for rules in our community (our classroom) and we talked about how to get along.

Science:

• We introduced pushes and pulls

We visited Gym, Art, Music and Media.

We checked out our first book from the library.

We played during Free Choice Time.

• Alphabet Books were due Thursday (Letter A and Letter D page).  I will return them on Monday.
• Nightly Literacy Homework for September can be turned in Monday.  October sheets will be sent home on Monday.

**Please remember to pack an afternoon snack separate from the lunch box.

**Please remember to eat a good breakfast every morning.  We do not have morning snack.

**Field Trip Permission slips are due by Friday, October 5th.

Have a great weekend!