Weekly News October 21-25

Thank you to all of the parent volunteers who braved the elements to join us on our first field trip!  We packed a lot of learning into one afternoon and we couldn't have pulled it off without you!!

Important Dates and Reminders:
October 21: Veteran's Day RSVPs due!!!!
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: Mathematicians will learn all about numbers 6-10 and how using a five group can help us to see and build those numbers quickly! We will use different tools to build these numbers and make equations to match. Mathematicians will also explore equal and not equal by comparing both digits to objects and objects to objects.

Reading: This week we will continue to explore and practice reading different types of books and how reading them will look, sound and feel.  We will even start to explore unfamiliar books and how we can use the pictures and words to do so. One thing readers will learn to do is take a picture walk by checking the cover and then looking at all the pictures to get an idea of how the book might go.  We will also pay attention to how many words are on a page and then try to match what we say to that (ex. if there are four words on the page, try to say four words).

Writing: This week we will continue to strengthen our sentence writing by leaving spaces between words and using punctuation at the end.  We will also work on making endings for our books and will start to fancy them up to share with the 4K students next week.

Researcher's Workshop:Students will finish our centers to dig even deeper and apply the knowledge they gained about our school helpers and school community. Later in the week, we will read about maps to figure out what they are and why we use them. Finally, groups of students will illustrate one room of our school and we will put them together to create a large map.