Nov 6-10

I am anxious to meet with all of you at conferences starting this week!  It will be so exciting to show you the growth your son or daughter has made and to talk about next steps in their learning!

Also, just a reminder that canned/packaged food for the food drive can be sent in until November 9th.  This is a district wide event coordinated by the Kaukauna High School NHS.

This month New Directions is showing how to BE Thankful!  As a way to bring us together as a school community we are going to have an "Appreciation Station" set up for students and families to use at conferences.  At this station you will be able to write a note to someone you are thankful for in your lives. It can be someone from the school or someone from somewhere else in your lives.  Please look for the station outside the cafeteria by the 4K classroom and stop by to let someone know you are thankful for them!

Here is the November newsletter for our school.

Also, the Eagle Graphics online store is open for school apparel sales until November 19.  Use this link.

Important Dates and Reminders:

11/6:  Packer Day
11/8: Dress Like Your Parents Day
11/9: Conferences 4:00-7:15pm
11/10: Wear Red, White and Blue for our Veterans
11/14: Conferences 4:00-7:15pm
11/17: 11:30 dismissal (no lunch served)
11/20: Badger Day
11/22-11/24: NO SCHOOL

Here is a peek at our week:

Math:We are continuing to focus on the equal and not equal signs and how to use them appropriately.  We will also working with a counting mat to notice that as numbers grow sequentially what we are doing is adding 1.  We will explore and discuss number order and even try to write some +1 equations (5=4+1).  Additionally we will be looking at the attributes of a triangle and learning some position words: above, below, beside, behind and in front of.

Reading:This week in reading we will be shopping for books at our "just right" reading level.  I will be able to explain to you exactly what reading skills your child can be working on when we meet at conferences.  Your child will also bring home a book or two nightly.  Please enjoy reading each night with your child and praise the hard work s/he is doing as a reader.  This week we will continue to learn about and practice our reading powers. So far we have learned: pointer power, reread power, partner power and picture power.  This week we will focus on sound power and persistence power!

Writing: We are coming to the end of our "Writing Like Scientists" unit.  This week we will revise our writing to make sure it includes zoomed in pictures, labels and sentences.  We will also be editing to make sure our writing has spaces, snap words, punctuation and that was used as many sounds as we could when stretching out words.  We will co-create and use checklists to make one piece our best to be shared with you at conferences.   

Science: This week we will begin our very first science unit on the sky.  This week we will be doing some knowledge building around what is in the sky and will do some reading of informational books to come up with some questions we would like answered about the sky.  We will wrap up the week by studying and writing about some photographs of various things in the sky (sun, moon, clouds, planets).