Welcome November and Welcome to our new student, Hassen Beydoun!  We now have 26 Kindergarteners.

READING-We will finish Unit 2 What Is A Friend?

STRATEGY-Asking Questions

WRITING-Since we have a short week, we will be writing our Prewrite on Monday, Edit on Wednesday, and Publish/Share on Thursday.

WORDS-Week 3 of each unit is the review of weeks 1 & 2.  So, our words are like  A  a

LETTERS-Again, review week of the past 2 weeks.  So, our letters are S s   P p .

Please add these letters and words to your home list of letters and words that your child should know.

MATH-Estimation and Number Stories (addition stories)

This week…

Tuesday-NO STUDENTS (PD for teachers)

Wednesday-Library Book Due

Friday-AM Students   11:45 Dismissal           PM- NO STUDENTS

Mrs. Smith

“Time is like a river.  You cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again.  Enjoy every moment of your life.”

What a wonderful day today!  The students enjoyed dressing up and walking in the parade.  Following the parade we enjoyed treats in our classroom.  Thank you to Mrs. Eberwein (Jonah’s mom) and Mrs. Fracassa (Alina’s mom) for organizing the food and craft. Here are some pictures of our day.                                                                          

Happy Halloween!   Be safe.

Mrs. Smith

Can you spot your scientist?

Parents,

Here’s the plan for tomorrow…

11:15-Students may either have lunch here or be picked up to go home for lunch/change into costume.               Students need to be back at school by 11:55.  We need to be in ART Class by 12:00.

Students who remain here for lunch-I will help dress them after lunch.

An All-School Parade will be at 1:30 around the track.  All are welcome to watch the parade.  Bring your cameras!  We’re pretty cute!!  The parade usually lasts 20-25 minutes.  I will then take my students into my room for the rest of the day.  Dismissal is the usual time.

Enjoy Saturday night with your excited little ones!

Mrs. Smith

P.S.  No rain, right??

“Time is like a river.

You cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again.

Enjoy every moment of your life.”

Can you believe it’s the last week of October already!! Here we go…

READING-We will continue on with our unit on FRIENDS.  What Is A Friend? 

STRATEGIES-Characters and Setting

WRITING-We’ll focus on writing with spaces between words.

WORD-A  a   (pronounced “ahh,” not a)

LETTER-P  p

MATH-Adding 1 to any given number

SCIENCE-Predicting, Observing, & Conclusions  all with pumpkins!!  We are still missing many “Lab Coats.” -an big T-Shirt, an old one of Dad’s, Grandpa’s, Uncle’s will do.       Here is Scientist Nabil in his “Lab Coat.”

Friday will be our Halloween Parade and Party.  Students may bring a costume to school and we will change into the costumes after lunch.  You also may take your child home at lunch (11:15) to eat and dress.  Please have your child back at school by 12:00 noon.  (This is a time change from last week’s post as they now have ART at 12:00.)

Parade is at 1:30 around the track.  Pray for good weather!

My Homeroom Parents have things organized for the party.  I know that they have asked for a monetary donation to help cover the parties.  If you have not sent in the money, please send it in on Monday.  Thank you.

Another fun week coming up!!

Mrs. Smith

Each month teachers select 1 or 2 students who exhibit good character, on task, and are invested in their own learning.  These students will have their picture on the school TV monitors.  I am pleased to show you my selections for my October Students of the Month.

Congratulations Jacob Smith and Emily Montierth!

Working with our Math Unit of Patterns All Around Us, please have your child find a picture in a magazine or newspaper of a pattern.  A tie, carpet pattern, etc.  Have them cut out the pattern and bring it in tomorrow.  Have your child put the picture in their backpack (responsibility) and they will know that they have their “homework.”

REMINDER-tomorrow is LIBRARY DAY.  Again, have your child put their Library Book in their backpack.

Today we read a story about 2 friends liking different things.  I made a diagram with them, comparing that the girl liked, the boy liked, and what they both liked.  Take a look…

This week we start a new unit in Reading-MAKING FRIENDS is our theme.

READING-Our unit title is LEARNING ABOUT FRIENDS.

We’ll talk about how friends can be friends and yet still like or do different things.

WRITING-We’ll be writing sentences!  A sentence

-has a complete thought,

-starts with a capital letter

-has spaces between the words

-punctuation at the end  (. ? ! )

WORD- like

LETTER-S  s

• As you go out for a ride, walk, or around the house, find some things that start with s.
• Practice writing our words in different colors of crayons and markers.
• Write the words on 3×5 cards and play a Memory Game.  (Write 2 sets of the words in crayons instead of markers.  Markers leak through and you can see the word from the back side.)
• Using the 3×5 cards, make a sentence.
• Can you switch around the words and make a question?

Words are I   am   Am   Can  can  We  we  The  the  like  A   a  

MATH and SCIENCE-We’ll be exploring Attributes.  Size, Shape, Color, Thickness

We’ll also be working with Patterns All Around Us.

Mrs. Smith

Today your child is bringing home a paper with 2 trees on it.  They also have a little bear.  We used the bear to place on the paper by using positional words.

Place the bear on the tree, between the trees, above the trees, near the moon, etc.

Positional Words are good descriptive vocabulary and help with MATH (Geometry) and SPACIAL RELATIONS.

Have them try it at home with their hands.

“Put your hands on you shoulders, between your legs, next to you legs, behind your back, under your legs, etc.

Have fun using Positional Words.

Mrs. Smith

I’m a little behind in posting these Birthday Students.  Here are our September and October birthday students.

Zachary-September 16                      Hussein-September 29

Jordan-October 5                             Joelle-October 13