I forgot to include…

LETTER- “T  t”

WORD-“See   see

We celebrate another beautiful, warm week of Fall!  WOW!

We will begin a new Unit in Reading.

READING-TRANSPORTATION is our theme for the next 3 weeks.

Unit 1-“Getting Around Town”  We’ll talk about different vehicles.

READING STRATEGY-Recognizing story structure

READING SKILL-Making and Confirming Predictions

WRITING-Writing a List (of vehicles that we see around town)

MATH-Number Line 🙂   Students will be moving along a giant Number Line, discovering numbers that are greater than or less than a given number.  For example,

0__1__2__3__4__5__6__7__8__9__10__11__12__13__14__15__16__17__18__19__20

“Tell me a number that is < 15.”  “Tell me a number that is > 4.”

SOCIAL STUDIES-We’ll be talking about Needs and Wants.

Looking ahead…

Wednesday-LIBRARY DAY

Thursday-THURSDAY BOOK BAGS ARE DUE

Friday-FRIDAY BOOK BAGS ARE DUE

(Next week I will be sending home Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday Book Bags.)

Enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Smith

Here is the schedule for the Book Bags.  Bags will come home on the day indicated below.  Keep the book for the week and return it on the day indicated.  For example, Book bag goes home on Monday, return the bag the following Monday.

Monday-Sarah  Eman  Mahdi  Noor  Lana

Tuesday-Adriana  Jonah  Ameer  Alina  Mia

Wednesday-Juliette  Kareem  Jordan  Derek  Emily

Thursday-Khalil  Keelan  Joelle  Lily  Nabil

Friday-Zahra  Avalina  Jacob  Hussein  Zachary  Hassen

Enjoy the books.  Let your child read to you.  Find our sight words.  Look for letters of the week.  Easy books to create some confidence and success.

Mrs. Smith

Parents,

I will be sending home a book bag with one or two books for your child to read with you.  The bag will have a schedule for the bag to return to school.  We will start slowly with the book levels.  We’re focusing on Comprehension, Fluency of reading the text and Accuracy of the words.   Enjoy listening to your child read!

We have a “Pete the Cat’s Shoe Tying Club!”  Look who can tie shoes!  Adriana, Mia, Sarah, Emily, and Lana.  Practice tying shoes at home so you too can join Pete’s Club!

Conference notes with times/dates are coming home today.  Please check if the date and time are satisfactory for you.  Then sign and return the bottom part to me.

Thank you

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