Weekly News October 28-November 1

This Friday will be ORANGE & BLACK day!  Student will also participate in a fall scoot.  They will rotate to three different classrooms and have fun dancing to fall songs, learning some cool science info about pumpkins and playing fall BINGO.  We will end the day with a special snack!

Important Dates and Reminders:

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
November 5: Picture Retake day-- send picture packages back to school with your child if you wish to have them retaken
November 7:  Red, White and Blue Day-Veteran's Day Program 6:00 pm

November Lunch Menu

Math: This week our math focus will switch to story problems.  Mathematicians will learn that listening to and solving story problems is a lot like the writing process.  We will use the chart below to help us!!  We will also do lots of acting out to really see and understand what is happening in each problem we listen to.


Reading:This week is the beginning of our most EXCITING reading unit yet: Super Readers! Students will learn that readers are like super heroes because they can use super reader powers. After getting their very own book bins, they will learn about their super powers! For example, Super Readers can use pointer power to point at each word while reading a book.

Writing:This week we will be learning to write true stories! This means we will be taking an event from our lives, telling that story and then working to show it in pictures and words across three pages. We will practice this work as a class by writing a few class “true stories” together.  As true story writers we will need to do ALOT of story telling to help us say what happened first, next and last.  We will also use our writing folders to help us generate ideas for our true stories.  We will also work  on showing details in our drawings and will be pushing ourselves to write many letters in words we stretch out and use snap words to continue to write sentences.

Researcher's Workshop: Kindergartners will dig into a new unit exploring animals and their survival needs. Our first lesson was called, “Why does a woodpecker peck wood?” We will learn how every animal has the need to find food. When we see animals in the wild, very often they are looking for food. We will practice being different animals and learn about how they search for food,

Snap words:  The new snap words introduced this week will be: like, in, on, so