Weekly News October 14-18

The 2nd Veteran's Day NDLC concert is approaching (Nov. 7)! If you and your loved ones plan on attending and/or want to celebrate a Veteran in your family, please send back the form by Monday, October 21.  This was an amazing event last year and we are so proud to be able to hold it again!

Important Dates and Reminders:

October 14: Packer Wear or favorite sports wear day
October 15 &17: Conferences-- held in our classroom
October 22: Family Night
October 28-31 Red Ribbon Week (dress up days below)
10/28: Teaming Up Against Drugs is NO SWEAT! Wear Your Favorite Sweats and/or Team Apparel! 10/29: SOCK IT To Drugs! Wear Crazy Socks 10/30: RED DAY! Be United Against Drugs! Deck Yourself Out in Red Apparel
10/31: Wear Orange and Black November 1: NO SCHOOL Math:  At the end of the week, students will take the unit 1 assessment. As a culmination of this unit's big ideas, mathematicians will be rotating through centers based on adding and subtracting, subitizing, number order, and number identification. Here are some pictures of what the centers will look like 
This bingo game support subitizing. Click here to download

A great way to practice number identification.
Click here to download

Reading: As we wrap up our "Old Favorite" books unit, students will be acting out the books that they know and love! We will start the week off by creating puppets and thinking carefully about how those characters look, act, and feel. Then, we will think about where the story takes place and create settings. Readers are encouraged to think about the problem in the story and how it is resolved in the end when acting out. Acting out stories is a great way for early readers to develop comprehension skills.  Near the end of the week we will also be reviewing how to read ALL of the types of books we have in our classroom and will do some book shopping and get books in our very own book bins!

Writing: Writing this week will focus mainly on sentence writing!  Writers will learn that sentences are a way to share more information than labels.  We will be using the high frequency (or as we call them snap) words to create sentences in patterns across pages.  The snap words we have learned so far are: a, I, is, go, me, to, the.  These are words that your child can practice at home by writing them or finding them in books.

Researcher's Workshop:  The students love interviewing our school helpers! It is great to visit the different offices in the school to learn about what our school helpers do.  After introducing the new social studies centers, students will have a chance to work in each center this week. Students will create building block structures of where our school community helpers work. We will create webs that describe the work of the school community helpers. Finally, students will look at an assortment of pictures, determine the problem, and decide which community helper(s) could be called to fix the problem.