Happy Halloween!

Thank you so much to the room parents that planned and helped out to make our Halloween party a great one!  Can you guess who is behind the masks???

Flying Through October!!!

Parent Updates

• Be sure to send homework and the signed homework sheet back to school on Fridays
• Please send your child's halloween costume to school on Monday.  All makeup should be done at home.
• Memorial's Halloween Parade is scheduled for 9:30 on Halloween

Literacy Updates

• Continued learning to "tap to read" and "tap to spell" with CVC words
• Continued framing our sentences with capitals and end marks
• Learned how digraphs are two consonants that work to make one sound.  We learned wh, ch, th, sh & ck
• Focused on trick words.  Remember students need to be able to read and spell these words accurately.  They will come home on a list of other words.  Keep these and practice these words. (a, the, and, his, is, as, has, in & into)
• Learned how to make our small moment stories come to life by making our characters move and talk
• Finished Elmer and the Dragon.  Began The Dragons of Blueland.

Math

• Continued solving story problems
• Learned how to solve compare problems
• Continued learning addition strategies:  doubles, doubles plus 1 and addends in any order
• Here is an explanation of doubles 

                                                                                        

                                                               

 Social Studies

• Continued with Scholastic News
• Read several stories about Christopher Columbus
• Wrote facts about Christopher Columbus
• Talked about "calming down" strategies in Open Circle

Going Strong!

Parent Updates

• Don't forget to return poem notebooks to school
• Please send the red home/school folder to school everyday
• No school October 10th:  Columbus Day
• No school October 12th:  Yom Kippur

Language Arts

• Continued learning different centers:  listening center, word work center and many more
• Completed reviewing the consonants with v, x, y & z
• Began learning how to "tap to read" & "tap to spell" with short vowel (CVC) words
• Learned how to "frame our thought" with a capital and end mark
• Continued writing small moment stories; learned to write "seed stories" not "watermelon stories"
• Learned how writing partners can help plan and revise our stories
  
                        
• Finished "My Father's Dragon" and began "Elmer and the Dragon"

Math

• Continued working on "Add To", "Put Together" and "Both Addend Unknown" story problems
• Began working with "Take From" story problems
• Continued to work on ways to show our thinking
• Began focusing on strategies for solving addition problems.  Our first strategy is counting on; using numbers and number lines
• Used legos to show counting on                 
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Social Studies

• Talked about "expected" and "unexpected" behaviors and how it makes people around us feel
• Read scholastic news magazines on "friends" and author "Kevin Henkes"