We wrote another book this week.  This is book number 14 so far this year!

All students should be able to write and read “We can go in the _______.”  I used this week’s words we   in  .  The other words they’ve had and should know how to write and read them.  Reading left to right, spaces between words, capital letter at the beginning of sentences, punctuation at the end, and stretching through words…lots of skills being taught in writing the book.

Stay tuned for next week’s literary creation.  I would like this week’s book to stay for a few days in their book box but they always want to take home the books to read to you.  Have a listen…they are proud of their accomplishment.

Many of my kids are cutting those 6 year molars and find chewing/sucking their fingers a convenient source of comfort.  However, we have many germs in here and, while I am constantly sending them to wash their hands or to keep their hands/fingers out of their mouth, words often fall on deaf ears. Their fingers go from their nose or mouth to the carpet, etc.  A word of reminder from home would be appreciated.   Thanks!!

Surprise!!!! Snow greeted us this morning!  I told my husband that I knew of 24 very excited little Kindergarteners this morning!  I can only imagine the squeals in your houses this morning.

Here’s what’s coming up next week…

READING/WRITING THEME-Harvest and Thanksgiving

LETTERS-R  r     E  e   Make sure that your child can make the sounds of the letters, as well as read and write the letters.  Sounds are VERY important to reading and writing.

WORDS-It  it       Is  is    (Following on last week’s word in)  Your child should know the i  sound, since we  had that letter/sound the week of 10/22.  “Make the i sound.  Now make the t sound. Slide the sounds together.  Do the same for is. ”  These words should be very easy for them.  Add these word cards to their word card bank.  Spread the cards out on the floor.  Make a sentence with the words.

WRITING-Informational about TURKEYS.

PHONICS/WRITING- Final Sounds.

MATH-Geometry  Naming shapes, describing the shapes  (“A rectangle has 4 sides, 2 long sides and 2 short sides, and 4 corners.”)

Describe a triangle, circle.

We will also work with Positional words.

SCIENCE-Seasons

Tuesday & Thursday are Evening Conferences  Reminder notes were sent home last week. Last evening I met with 8 families and I enjoyed sharing their child’s successes with their parents.

Wednesday is LIBRARY DAY.

Remember the Weekly Book Bags.  The kids are doing a great job with their home reading.  I am pleased with their reading and they are moving up in their reading levels.  They are each working on different strategies and applying them to reading.  I can tell when they read at home.  Thank you for your support at home.  It shows.  Now I know why my private flute teacher could always tell when I had practiced a lot during the week and when I wasn’t as faithful with daily practice!

WEATHER INFORMATION:

With the snowy weather upon us, students need to wear boots to school and carry their shoes in their backpack. I told them that it it their responsibility to put their shoes in the backpack at night.  (Parents often get blamed for “not putting my shoes in my backpack.”) They will take off their wet boots in the hall and change into their shoes.  If they wear wet shoes into the room, they track in wet snow on their shoes, and then sit in the wetness on the carpet.  Wet shoes on 24 kids creates a very wet carpet on which to sit!  YUK!  Even if there is only a little bit of snow on the pavement, students are to still wear their boots into school.  Several mentioned today that they did not have boots that fit.  I told them that they could go out this weekend and get a pair…perfect time.  It’s also a perfect time to practice tying shoes!

Enjoy the snow and all of the wonder it brings.

Mrs. Smith

Here are my October Students of the Month

Ali Boomrod and Mohamed Rhebi

Continue making those good choices and being an upstanding person!

Since we have NO SCHOOL TOMORROW, I told the students that they have homework tonight.

1.  Be able to tell me on Wednesday morning what our letters and words are for this week.  (Go on my blog to find out the answer.)
2.  Give me a sentence using “We can go in the ___________.” Complete the sentence with a place that a nocturnal animal  would live.  We did this in class today.  We created a word web about where nocturnal animals would go.  Then I had them each write their own sentence.  Each week I am building on the previous week’s words.  Please have your child create and write a sentence or two.

Thank you.

Change in Science topic…SEASONS (not weather)

Welcome November!  How did you get here so fast?

Here’s what next week looks like…

LETTERS-  G g   U  u

WORDS- We   we   in

WRITING- Narrative Writing  (telling/writing a story)  We will also focus on ending sounds for reading and writing.

Use the writing words to practice creating sentences.  For example,

We can go in the ___________.

(choose a spot where Nocturnal animals would go)

We can go in the cave.

We can go in the tree.

Make word cards and lay the cards out on the floor.   Make a sentence with the words.

Read the sentence.  Now go write the sentence.  Go back and check the cards on the floor to see if the words are all spelled correctly.

Try another sentence.  Practice makes perfect.  Keep practicing.

READING COMPREHENSION- Information about Nocturnal Animals.

MATH-We will begin a new unit…GEOMETRY.

Monday-Flat Triangles

Tuesday-NO SCHOOL   Voting day  (PD for teachers)

Wednesday-Rectangles and Squares  Describe them.  What attibutes do they have in common?  How are they different?

Thursday-Hexagons and Circles

Friday-Positional Words with Shapes   above, below, beside, in front of, next to, behind

SCIENCE-Weather

Reminder…Thursday evening begins Parent/Teacher Conferences.  I will be sending home reminder notes.

Enjoy your weekend.

“Be grateful for every second

you get to spend

with people you love.

LIFE IS SO PRECIOUS.”

Mrs. Smith

Today we tried something new…PARTNER WRITING!

Since we already know the sight words I can go to the

we created our own partner sentences using those words.

We enjoyed staying focused on the assignment and creating good sentences.

Here’s a peek…

I couldn’t get all of the partners because they were finishing up their sentences so quickly!  Sorry 🙁