Weekly News Oct 2-6

We ended our week with a reading parade!!  The boys and girls came together with Mrs. Lenzner's class as a group of readers and proudly paraded through the hallway holding their "trophies" (books they are proud to be able to READ).  It was such a fun way to celebrate their accomplishments during our first reading unit!

Click here to watch the parade!

Important Dates and Reminders:

10/8: Ride to Read
10/17: Heckrodt Field Trip
10/17: Goodies and Grandparents Family Night 6-7pm
10/23-10/25: Red Ribbon Week (dress up days below)
10/23: Sweats and team apparel
10/24: Neon day
10/25: Red day
10/26 & 10/27- NO SCHOOL
10/31: Orange and Black day

Here is the October lunch menu.  Here is the October school newsletter.

Here's a peek at our week:

Math: We will focus our work this week on ordering numbers 1-10 and also showing number quantity up to 10.  We will pay special attention to seeing/creating a group of 5 when showing numbers 6-10 using math tools.  We will also be working with the concepts of addition and subtraction and will be introduced to how to solve addition and subtraction problems using our fingers. We will also work to tell math story problems to help us practice our addition and subtraction.

Reading: We will now launch into a new unit that will continue to focus on reading emergent story books but will delve deeper into focusing on character feelings and actions.  Students will also start to build comfort with conventionally reading familiar texts that they know well--like their Star Name books, songs, and rhymes we been reading regularly in class together.

Writing: This week will be our last week of writing true stories.  We will work hard this week to add more details to our pictures and to also add more sounds and words to our writing.  We will get ready to celebrate by picking our favorite story to revise AND edit!  We will use a checklist to make sure our story shows something that happened, who was there and how they felt.

Social Studies: Now that we are settling into the normal routines of school and have built the foundation for our classroom community, we will be kicking off our first social studies unit.  This unit is a School Study.  This week we will build some background on our school study and list all the different jobs that people in our school do.  We will formulate interview questions and the boys and girls will do  interview Mrs. Mitchell, our admin assistant and Mrs. Geoffrey, our EA in the health room.  In the coming weeks we will take many tours and conduct interviews of these people to learn all about our school.

FUNdations: Fundations is a new phonics program adapted by our school this year.  Fundations lays the groundwork for the skills students need to be proficient readers and writers.  We have been using this program daily since the first day of school.
So far we have been reviewing letter names and sounds and learning and practicing lower case letter formation.  Please look for a writing grid to come home for your child to practice letter formation on.  I will also include a sheet with letter formation cues for you to guide your child.  A thin dry erase marker would work great for this.
Other skills we have been and will continue to cover are:

• Print awareness
• Word awareness
• Story re-telling and comprehension
• Rhyming 
• Phonemic awareness skills to identify beginning and ending sounds in words