In Our Class This Week...

Let's take a took at some REACH news:

Great California Shake Out
October 16th at 10:16am

Our Week in the Classroom

Language Arts:

Unit 1-Week 6 

Unit 1 test

Student will be taking their first unit test this week

The test will cover most of the skills learned these past 6 weeks:

Letters sounds
Sight words (I, am , the, little, a, to)
Comprehension skills (character, setting, sequence, classify and categorize)

Math:

Finish up chapter 3 and test

Students will order objects by size, length or weight

Begin Chapter 4

Composing and decomposing numbers (5)

Science:

Staying healthy

With the Jog-a-thon around the corner I thought it would be great to teach the kiddos ways to stay healthy:

Exercise
Staying clean: brushing teeth, washing hands, coughing/sneezing on arm
Food: healthy vs. junk food

Foody-Fun-Friday

For this week's activity students will be creating a fun healthy snack with a halloween twist!

***Please let me know if you can donate any of the following items: red apple slices, vanilla wafers, lite cool whip, instant vanilla pudding mix, small cans of pumpkin

Next week we will start our pumpkin unit so please let me know if you can donate small pumpkins (one for each student), 1 medium and 1 large pumpkin

Social Studies:

Celebrate Christopher Columbus Day: make hats

Leadership:

Listening to others
Keeping our hands to ourselves
Being great friends

Classroom News:

Please continue to talk to your student about the importance of school behavior: using kind words, sharing, using the bathroom at the appropriate times, and following our school rules:

1. Listen while the teacher is talking

2. Follow directions quickly

3. Respect others, respect yourself, respect your school

4. Raise your hand to speak or stand

5. Keep your hands to yourself

6. Keep your dear teacher happy

As always, please feel free to send me an email or stop by the room with any questions or concerns. Have a great weekend!