I do hope you are enjoying this GORGEOUS weather-WOW!!!!Golfers delight.

A short week next week.  I will combine Weeks 2 & 3 into the following week, since that’s our review week anyway.

READING-Traveling Near and Far is out Theme.

COMPREHENSION STRATEGY-Recognizing Text Structure

COMPREHENSION SKILL-Classify and Categorize

LETTER-I  i

WORD-Go  go

WRITING-making a chart about vehicles that travel On land, On Water, In the Air

MATH-Probability

Please take this weekend opportunity to make sure your child has mastered all of the Sight Words that we have had so far.  They should know how to spell and read the words.  Check my previous blogs for the words.  Also check for LETTERS that we have done.  They should be able to create new words, using the letters that we know.  For example…

With the new letter I i  we can spell and write it  is (because we’ve already had s)

tip  sit  pit  etc.

Make letter/word cards and use those cards to create new words.  Words then become sentences and sentences become stories/paragraphs

Keep a running list of the words on the refrigerator and have your child read the list every time they pass by the list. Add on the new words from your family.  Watch the confidence, Accuracy, and Fluency increase!

Thank you again for sharing your children with me.  They are such precious gifts.  Today they had a sub in GYM class and she told me the students were the BEST class she has ever had!  (Remember how young my kids are too.)

Enjoy your weekend.

Mrs. Smith

“Challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what’s happening.

That’s where your power lies.”

FYI… Strep throat is visiting our classroom.  3 of my little ones have it.

If your kids make Math Number sentences with their food, here might be the reason…

I will try to get a more formal post out to you sometime later today.  For now, 2 quick messages about tomorrow…

WEDNESDAY- Picture retakes and LATE START   Whenever we have a LATE START I have to order the lunches the day before (for those buying lunch).  So, if your child is buying tomorrow, Wednesday, first choice will be Cheese and Crackers, yogurt, etc. have a chat with them to find out what they’d like to have for lunch. Second choice will be Cheese Pocket Sandwich.

Conferences tomorrow and Thursday evenings.

OK, I’ll try a to hit the top items for this week…

READING- We are starting a new unit Transportation.  This week’s theme is “Getting Around Town.”

How do we get around out town?

LETTER- T  t

WORD-See  see

WRITING- We will begin Informational Writing.

SCIENCE-We will continue with Sink or Float and use our Scientific Processes of Observing, Predicting, Conducting, Concluding, Recording.    I’m pushing them to use Higher Level thinking and reasoning.  Ask them “Why” when talking when them about things.

MATH-Number Stories (aka Story Problems 🙂  )

Have a lovely week.  did you catch that Super Moon?? WOW??

Mrs. Smith

We had quite a science lesson today (or should I say lessonS)!

Ask them…

“Does a pumpkin sink or float?”  (We didn’t get to the WHY part yet.)

“How many lines does a pumpkin have?  Do all pumpkins have the same number of lines?  Is the number ODD, EVEN, or BOTH?”  Told you we got in to lots of elements of thinking today.  I even through in the ODD/EVEN thing.  I was giving them lots of numbers and they could tell me right away if the number was ODD or EVEN.  I told them the trick to doing this 3rd grade math!

Check out my little Scientists…

Oh my goodness…could they be ANY cuter?!!  Wait till you see your child.

Also, Library Book exchange day will be Thursday this week (due to No School tomorrow, Tuesday, our usual Book Exchange Day)

Parents,

Reminders:

we have gym class on Mondays and Fridays (beginning and end of the week).  Please make sure your child wears their gym shoes to school on those days

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW- (Teachers have Professional Development)

-Voting day

Thank you

School districts in Wayne County have placed a proposal on the November 8^th ballot to provide added funding for our schools. It is the “Regional Enhancement Millage Proposal.”

If approved by the entire county, the 2 mil proposal will generate approximately $6.2 million from Dearborn but the District will receive $7.8 million in additional funding for our schools.  Money would go to local schools starting this year and the millage expires after six years.  Read the rest of this entry

School districts in Wayne County have placed a proposal on the November 8^th ballot to provide added funding for our schools. It is the “Regional Enhancement Millage Proposal.”

If approved by the entire county, the 2 mil proposal will generate approximately $6.2 million from Dearborn but the District will receive $7.8 million in additional funding for our schools.  Money would go to local schools starting this year and the millage expires after six years.  Read the rest of this entry

Welcome November with your beautiful weather and warm temperatures!

READING-We are on to Week 3 of Unit 2 (FRIENDS)

Theme-Getting Along

COMPREHENSION STRATEGY-Ask Questions

Parents, before you read a book, have your child do a few things.  First, check out the cover.  Who is on the cover?  What is the setting?  What do you think this story is going to be about?

Next, generate some questions abou the book BEFORE you begin reading.  For example, today I read The Very Stuffed Turkey.  After discussing the things on the cover, I asked them, “What questions can we think of about this story BEFORE we read it.  (This will focus in their reading.  This skill can be used at any grade and will serve them well when they take tests.  Notice that I said questions, not tell me what you think the story is about.  Some of their questions were:

“What stuffed the turkey?”  “Who stuffed the turkey?”  “Why is the turkey stuffed?”  Is a stuffed turkey a bad thing?”  “Will the turkey be stuffed at the end of the story?” When did the turkey get stuffed?”  I have highlighted words that begin questions.  Enjoy these techniques when reading with your child.  Watch them light up when one of their story questions gets answered. Now that’s focusing in their reading!

COMPREHENSION SKILL-Identify Characters   I’m combining 2 areas of COMPREHENSION, Identifying Characters and asking questions.

WORDS- Review like  a  can  we  am  the  I  (Your child should know how to read, write, and spell all of these words.)

LETTERS-S  s   P  p

WRITING-We will finish Opinion Writing.  Next week…Informational Writing

We will focus on beginning, middle, and end of a story.  Practice this at home with your child after you have read a book.  “What happened in the beginning of the story?  “…the middle”  “…the end”  Have them give you one short sentence for each part.  Watch out for them to retell the whole story.  NOT retelling…just beginning, middle, and end of the story.

MATH-We’ll be working with Number Stories ( aka Story Problems)  Make some up on your own.  Stick with addition from 0-20.

SCIENCE-The Scientists will be investigating, predicting, creating an hypothesis, gathering data, observing, and recording findings with………PUMPKINS!  (of course 🙂  )

REMINDER:Tuesday, Nov. 8 NO SCHOOL  Voting Day

I will be having Conferences these next 2 weeks in the evenings.  If you have not already done so, please return your Conference slip.

Since I was out at a meeting yesterday, I did not get to switch out the books in their BOOK BAGS.  I will do so on Monday.   Also, remember that Mondays and Fridays are GYM days and students need to wear their gym shoes on those days so they can participate in gym class.

I had a lovely start to my day this morning…as you will see this year, I am not one to be absent very often.  I do not like to have other people teach my students.  However, there are times when I do need to be out and yesterday was one of those days.  When I got to my desk this morning there was a note from my sub, acknowledging my plans and her completion of the plans.  then she added

“Dear Mrs. Smith,

I had the most wonderful day with your Kindergarten friends!  You have such an AMAZING group of students!  I will come back and sub for you any day and I can’t wait to come back!”  Thank you to you Parents for sharing your AMAZING kids with me this year!

Enjoy the weekend and Good Luck to Mila as she competes in an ice skating competition in Ohio.  Go MILA!

Mrs. Smith

‘Smiles are contagious.  Kindness is free.”