Friday Newsletter, 10-7-16

News and Information

Field Trip

Our field trip to the Plymouth apple orchard will be Wednesday, October 12th.  Please remember to watch the weather and dress your child appropriately.  Please also pack a “brown bag” lunch with no glass containers.

Reading Logs

October reading logs were sent home on Monday.  Our monthly goal was printed on the top.  If your student reaches his/her goal by the end of the month they will earn a certificate for a personal pizza from Pizza Hut (their “Book It” program).

Calendar

Friday, October 14th – half-day of school.  School is dismissed at 11:45 a.m.

Friday, October 28th – Lindbergh’s Haunted School

Halloween

Yes, we will be having a classroom Halloween celebration and costume parade.  More information to come!

What We Did This Week

Our Alpha-Friend was” Reggie Rooster”, Letter R

We worked in our poem books

We introduced “Read to Self” a component of Daily Five (our Literacy program)

We continued to read Mercer Meyer books (he is the author of the Little Critter books)

We worked on drawing Mat Man using basic handwriting shapes from our Handwriting Without Tears program

In math we worked on number recognition and simple patterns

We continued our study on the season of Fall and read about how apples and pumpkins grow (preparing for the orchard field trip)

We wrote in our journals

We attended a school assembly

We attended a school reward party for good behavior

 

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