Don't rain on our parade! Yay! The rain stopped on Friday in time for our parade and the sun actually peeked out as much as it could on our Fall Festival. The kids were adorable, spooky, scary, and a little bit kooky! Everyone had a great time! Enjoy the pictures! Luckily, I think today's rain is ending in time for everyone to enjoy trick-or-treating tonight! I know the children are very excited! I LOVE seeing all the trick-or-treaters in their costumes. It's one of my favorite nights of the year!
With all of this excitement, we will still be working hard in room 1-4. Here's a look at what we will be doing at school this week.
Reading/Language Arts: This week's spelling focus is on the r-controlled vowel /or/ spelled or and ore. The wall words are animals, cold, fish, from, their, under, and very. I hope you have noticed the website links on the right hand side of this blog. Spelling City is a great site for spelling practice. I have the various week's spelling lists on the site. Look for week 11 for this week's words. There are some great games and activities to help your child practice the spelling words each week. The robust vocabulary introduced through literature this week includes nuzzled, pranced, raging, adapt, intriguing, and inhabit. Our genre focus will be on nonfiction. We will work on the comprehension concepts of comparing and contrasting and learning to make inferences when looking for facts, or true information, in what we read. When your child reads nonfiction at home, ask him/her to think about what they already know about those facts to help them understand new information. During workshop time, the children are practicing noticing patterns and pattern changes and realizing that once they can read the pattern in a book, they can focus more on the tricky words. They also are asking themselves does that look right? sound right? make sense?
Writing Workshop: We will continue to work on close-in endings, and begin revising and editing with partners.
Math: This week we'll be exploring domino-dot patterns and practicing all of the basic addition facts through domino addition. We will complete unit 3 this week. We will either take the assessment on Friday or next Monday, depending how the week goes.
Science: We will finish up our study of the human body this week. Their "pocket" books should be coming home the end of the week. Please celebrate with your child all that we have learned and all of the hard work! It's been a fun unit!
Things to remember:
- PLEASE practice the word card words daily with your child and help your child remember to bring it back to school on Thursdays.
- Field Trip to the SPCA is Thursday! We will leave school about 10:45 and and return about 1:30. If you have any last minute donations for our bin, please send them in by tomorrow! Parents are welcome to join us!
- Homecoming Pep Rally in the athletic center on Friday afternoon.
- There is no school for students next Monday, November 7, due to a Professional Development Day for teachers.
- The Book Fair is next week. We will be browsing at 8:45 Tuesday morning and your child may be bringing home a list of books he/she is interested in! You may come shop with your child before or after school or during recess next week.
- Poetry in the Park is next Friday, November 11. It begins at 8:30. Bring your chairs or blankets and enjoy a delightful morning of poetry! Come prepared to laugh, smile, and say awww! Please keep practicing our poem with your child!
- Holiday Gift Drive begins November 28 and runs through December 9.
- Tuesday - Art - 12:00 - Kimberly Burke
- Wednesday - Math Game - 1:00 - Natalie Ames
- Thursday - Library Check-out - 8:05 - Kimberly Burke and Susannah Malison
- Friday - PARENT READER CANCELLED DUE TO PEP RALLY
Have a great week!
Susan
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