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!

My apologies.  I’m so sorry.

I had my dates mixed up!  Please ignore the previous post.

Picture day is Thursday the 27th.

Apple Orchard field trip permission slips went home today.

Remember in order to chaperone you must have a completed I-chat background check on file with the school.

Cash payment only.

Thank you!

Please be sure that your student’s ring of sight words is kept in their reading bag so that when we meet in small group we can add our new words.

When turning in Alphabet Books (this week on Thursday because we have no school Friday) please be sure to send them in the red folders.

Hope this clarification helps!

Thanks!

Letters of the Week:  A, D (complete alphabet book and hand in Friday).

Words of the Week:  look, at (review sight word flashcards in student reading bag).

Math practice book:  lessons 13-16

First library book check out today.

No school Friday for Kindergarten and Y5 students.

Have a good week!

Save the date!

Our first field trip will take place October 8th to the Plymouth Apple Orchard.

If you plan to chaperone you must have the completed background check on file.

News and Information:

No School for Kindergarten, Friday, September 28th

What We Did This Week:

The students continued to learn school rules and classroom procedures.

ELA: 

• Our letters of the week were Tt, Nn
• Our sight words were like, to
• We read stories with rhyming words.
• Our Poem this week was “I Like to Go to School”
• We rotated through Daily 5 (read to self, work on writing and word work).
• We wrote in our journals during Writer’s Workshop.  Students are being encouraged to add lots of detail to their drawings.
• Sight word flashcards have been added to student reading bags

Math:

• We had 4 lessons this week on adding and number formation.  Feel free to complete the practice pages at home through lesson 13.

Leader in Me/ Social Studies:

• We talked about characteristics of a leader.
• We are developing our mission statement.

Science:

• We discussed the tools scientist use to observe.

We visited Gym, Art, Music and Media.

Library Book check our will begin Monday.

We played during Free Choice Time.

• Alphabet Books were due today (Letter T and Letter N page).  I will return them on Monday.
• Nightly Literacy Homework continues for the month.  These can be turned in every Monday to show progress.

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

Have a great weekend!

Our first popcorn day will be this Friday.  25 cents a bag…..limit 4 bags.  Please send a quarter with your student to school Friday (we’ll enjoy the special treat during quiet time).

Some students do well carrying the quarter into class in their pocket or you can tape it into the red folder.

Raffle Tickets (Lindbergh’s biggest fundraiser) went home this week.  Below is a message from the PTA:

There was a mistake with the payout amount for the prizes on the letter that was sent home. The raffle tickets have the correct amount.

1st – $500
2nd – $250
3rd – $250

We will also give a $50 gift card to the family that sells the most tickets

Thanks so much!!!

I am re-posting…..

Some of the families communicated they could not see the work for the week.

Alphabet Books:  Letter T and N

New sight words: like and to (sight word flash cards in the student’s reading bag).

Continue Nightly Literacy homework.

Math lessons 9-12 for the at home practice book.

Hope this helps.