**BIG REMINDER--Our walking field trip to MAZE BRANCH LIBRARY is MONDAY, OCTOBER 6th. We will eat lunch in our classroom and be on our way at 12:40 pm. K.Meier, B. Howell and T. Treadway have volunteered to walk with us. We will be back at school by 1:50 pm.
**Wednesday, October is WALK TO SCHOOL DAY. All students who walk to school will receive a hand stamp and gym shoe that they will color. Mr. Hancock will display all colored gym shoes in the gym. If you cannot walk to school on Wednesday......no worries.....At lunch, we can walk around the playground to get our stamp and shoe.
**Don't forget to send back your confirmation for Parent/Teacher Conferences. Conferences are Monday, October 20th, Tuesday, October 21st and Wednesday, October 22nd. Don't forget that on Thursday and Friday (October 23rd and 24th) school is in session in the morning only. Dismissal is at 11:00 am. District School Bus, Hephzibah and Magical Minds will also pick up at that time.
**SEASONAL BABIES PROJECT. Please send in a baby picture of your child for our Seasonal Babies Project. It can be any size. We will do the project on October 14th.
**The students were all smiles for their class and individual pictures last Tuesday. The weather did not cooperate for us so our class picture was taken inside in the auditorium. Thanks to K.Meier (Jeremy's mom) for her help!
**Route to Reading is off to a great start! You should have received notification of the skill your child is working on and the teacher who is teaching it.. Please email me if you did not receive it.
**The students have earned many EAGLE SLIPS! In celebration, the students in grades K-2 will have music playing during their outside lunch recess on Monday. Job well done!!!!
**Our GREEN TEAM reps--Atessa and Evan are working on their first project of the year. They are bringing an old shirt to their next meeting on Tuesday, October 7th and making rags.'
**Our STUDENT COUNCIL reps--Ethan and Lily will attend their first Student Council Meeting on Tuesday, October 7th during their lunch recess. They will report back to us.
**Sign up for FAMILY MATH NIGHT. Let's Rock Around the Clock!! It's Thursday, October 16th from 6:30-8:00 pm You and your child solve the math problems......I will make the root beer floats in the lunchroom soda shop!!!
**There is still time to sigh up for TRIVIA NIGHT--sponsored by PTO. Great grown up fun!!!
**Don't forget to sign up your child for the FUN RUN FUNDRAISER--PTO'S BIGGEST FUNDRAISER OF THE YEAR. The event is Wednesday, October 22nd. Kindergarten will "run" from 8:15-8:30 am around the turf. Help raise money for our school!!!
**Scholastic Book Order for October is due October 14th. You can also order on line by clicking the book on the left side of my blog.
**In Friendship Club this week, Ms. Bell Bey continued discussion and activities on the Zones of Regulation. You will find a copy in your child's homework folder. Next week, she will start a unit on friendship.
**In Mr. Packer Problem Solving this week--Mr. Packer began reading the book, "Tomorrow's Alphabet." It is a really cool book about ABC's and what items become in the future. This book is the catalyst for an upcoming project.
**NO SCHOOL on Friday, October 10th--Teacher's Institute Day.
**NO SCHOOL on Monday, October 13th in observance of Columbus Day.
**FUTURE FIELD TRIP--BROOKFIELD ZOO on November 25th from 9:00-1:30 pm More info is forthcoming. I will need at least 4 volunteers.
This week:
The students are working hard on their daily curriculum. They continue to respond to our Eagle Essential Guidelines and our class 1..2..3. They are now very much a part of shaping their own behavior! We are all learning a lot from each other. The students continue to work on fostering positive peer relationships both in and out of the classroom. We had our second meeting with our Book Buddies on Friday. The "little" kids selected a book and "big" Book Buddy read it to them and then they discussed the story elements --Characters, Setting and Story Events--Fiction/Nonfiction. Afterwards they illustrated their favorite part of the story. We have amazing 5th grade Book Buddies!!! They work so well with our precious kindergarten students! We will begin our next cross curricular theme: Apples, Pumpkins and Autumn next week.
Reading/Language Arts: The students completed Unit 1 Families in the Treasures Reading Series. The students discussed how families can change. Family members move away or move in. Children get older. I read the trade book, "Peter's Chair." It's the story about a boy who has a change in his family on a few different levels. We worked on story structure--a way in which things in the story happen. Stories have a beginning, middle and an end. The students made predictions about story content using the title and cover picture. After the second reading, the students matched pictures to a text that I read to them. They worked on retelling the story to a partner. They also work on reviewing sight word vocabulary and "walking" and writing their words. Robust Vocabulary for this week included CHANGE, RELATIVES, EAGER, OCCASION, CELEBRATE. Students reviewed rhyming patterns and sound blending 2 sound words. During our read aloud time, the students read "Can We?" Students caught on to the story structure...question....answer. Tracking skills are becoming more consistent. Workstations this week included completing sentence starters...I am.....I can.....with illustrations, picture sort by initial sound, before and after writing and illustration about how you have changed, rhyming word families AD and AT--nonsense or real words using the app Word Wizard, leveled readers/comprehension/story elements, shared reading with partners. Students continue to enjoy playing "Working on Syllables" and Rock. Paper, Scissors--upper/lowercase match. We were fortunate this week to be guided thru our Haggerty Blue Book exercises by Mr. Squirrel the puppet on loan to us from Evan!
Math: The students continue to work on counting quantities 0-15, recognizing numbers 0-15 and writing numbers. They used their number cards in a variety of games including the partner game Top It, where each partner draws a number and the partner with the greater number get the cards, Got It--number recognition where you roll the dice and color in the number on your recording sheet, Heads or Tails where you flip a penny and use tally marks to keep your score and number puzzles-matching number to quantity. The student worked on recognizing pattern block shapes and basic flat shapes. On our ten frames, students worked on "Slide and Say" and "Show Me" number. The students are beginning to recognize number more consistently using the reckenrek.
Writing: The students worked on activities from our hand and finger strengthening box. Holding an eraser with the ring and pinkie fingers of their writing hand, they practiced using their tri pod grasp to pick up objects, turn gears, search for pennies and beads, stamp in clay. Students continued to work on Frog Jump letters F, E, D, P. They practiced on their mini boards and also used Wet, Dry, Try method. They applied what they learned in their Orange Practice Books. In Writer's Workshop this week, the students worked on a writing project using the story, "The Day the Crayons Quit." They worked on forming their own opinion of what was their favorite color. The students are creating a class book with writing and illustrations about their favorite color. When it is completed, we will share it with you!
Technology: Students are using the iPad as a tool to enhance and reinforce skills taught. In student small groups used the apps Word Wizard to work on rhyming word families, ABC Magic to reinforce sound/symbol, I Write Words for letter formation, My ABC for letter matching, letter/sound relationship, upper/lowercase match and Sound Sort for sound/object match. In math small groups students used the apps Easy Match, Intro to Math and Geoboard to reinforce counting, number recognition, shape recognition and design.
Literature: "I See Patterns," "We Share Everything," "The Quiet Book," "The Cactus Hotel," "It's Okay to Make Mistakes," "The Playground Problem," "Pete the Cat Too Cool for School," "Me and My Family Tree," "The Day the Crayons Quit," "Peter's Chair," "If Your Were a Capital Letter," "The Rabbit and the Coyote."
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