Thank you all for your help making our Halloween party a success. We were able to dress up, join the parade, decorate and eat snacks, and play a game while both having fun and keeping our “engines” at a nice, gentle hum. Perfect!
Please welcome our new student, Clark, who has recently returned from England. We are so excited to have him join us!
We are beginning our social studies unit in which we learn, write, and share about our families. To get out thinking started, please send in a family photo to be displayed in the classroom as we talk about our “family trees”. You can choose one photo, or a compilation of a few to display together. We will share these photos with the class, and then display them in the room. The photos will be returned to you at the end of the unit.
If you are looking for some extra math practice to try at home, your child can be practicing rote counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s up to and past 100, as well as counting backwards starting at numbers past 20. It is always a good idea to continue practicing addition and subtraction facts to 12. There are fun math games available on the following website
If you are in the building, stop by and check out our animal research posters and books. The children each picked an animal to focus on at the zoo, and returned to write and draw what they learned. We also researched animals using classroom books, with follow up research done in the computer lab using “Pebble Go”. The students did a great job gathering, organizing and presenting their information.
All of our animal research this week gave us an opportunity to learn about nonfiction text features. We have learned about captions, labels, maps, and glossaries. We even had an opportunity to apply our knowledge of labels while doing our scientific drawing this yesterday.
Book order forms are coming home today. I will close the order on the 16th, in order to be sure to get them home by the holidays. Also, if you ordered last time, I apparently send home$3.00 coupons with your orders that are only for teacher use. If you still have it and would like to send it back, I’ll order some more books for the classroom.
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