Hello Families,
A few reminders:
1. There is no school on Monday; it is a teacher in-service day.
2. Black Book Bags will go home this Friday. Thank you for your patience! They will be due on Wednesday.
3. Our Kindergarten Halloween Parade will be on Friday, October 30th shortly after drop-off. If your child would like to participate, he/she should wear his/her costume to school. We will be having a Halloween Craft morning from 9-10am. A sign-up is posted in our classroom!
- Please make sure you SELL the Pony Plop tickets that went home with your child last week. If you are able to sell more, please do! You can get additional tickets in the school office. Invite family, friends, and neighbors!
- Please sign up to VOLUNTEER at the Fall Fun Fest! We need you! This is a great way to meet other parents and have fun while helping our school. Sign up HERE!
10/12 Monday- No School; teacher in-service day
10/13 Tuesday- Mrs. Glasgo will be out today; there will be a sub, Music (11:00-11:30), Snack:Bryn
10/14 Wednesday- Homework Packet Due, Library Book Due, Snack:Charlotte
10/15 Thursday- Emergency Drill, Snack:Donovan
10/16 Friday- Visit School Library (9:00-9:30), Computer Lab (10:45-11:25), Snack:Gabby
What We're Learning
- Math: ID 2D & 3D shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, hexagon, sphere, cylinder, cube, cone), ID colors, days of the week, ABAB patterns, days in school/beginning place value. We are practicing sorting by color, shape, and size, counting 0-5 objects, writing numbers 0-5, counting to 30, counting by 10's.
- Science: We will be studying BATS this week.
- We will learn that bats are mammals; they are warm blooded, have fur, and nurse their babies with milk.
- Bats are the only mammals that can fly.
- Bats have a thumb and four fingers, just like humans.
- Some bats drink blood. Other bats eat fruit, insects, frogs, and small animals.
- Bats are nocturnal; they sleep during the day and hunt for food at night.
- Bats hang upside down when they sleep.
- Bats smell, hear, taste, feel, and see just like people do. Most bats use echolocation; they make rapid, high-pitched squeaks through their mouth or nose, and if the sounds hit something, they bounce back and let the bat know how far away the object is.
- Bats have the best hearing of all land mammals.
- Language Arts:
- Our letter/sound of the week is B. Optional- Your child can bring something for sharing on his/her sharing day that begins with the letter B. We will be doing a bat craft this week!
- Your child should be able to read, write, and spell the following sight words that we have studied over the past few weeks: a, the, I, see, my, go, to, like. This week we are learning the sight word: can. Please practice reading, writing, and spelling these sight words at home! One of my favorite home spelling activities is back tracing! Take turns writing one letter at a time on a partners back and have them say each letter as you go...and then guess the word.
- In Writers Workshop we are starting to sound out words phonetically in our stories. At this time, some children may only hear the beginning and ending sounds in words. That is okay. Please do not tell your child how to correctly spell the word. Instead, encourage them to "say it like a snail, stretch it like a snake, write down the sounds you hear." Your child may want to practice writing stories at home too...attach them to your homework for extra credit! Writing is meant to be a fun activity so keep it positive! Please join us in praising your child for all his/her attempts!
- In Reading this week, we will focus on characters in stories.
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