In Our Class This Week...

School News:
10/19: First WACKY WEDNESDAY of the school year
11:30am-1:00pm
If you would like to volunteer please let me know
Please sign up for donations outside the classroom (feel free to double up on items)

10/21: Family Friday Lunch @ 11am

10/24-10/28: Red Ribbon Week/Book Fair
Monday: wear red
Tuesday: Backwards free dress
Wednesday: Wear favorite team's sport shirt/jersey
Thursday: Dress in western wear
Friday: Crazy dress/hair day

10/31: Fall Classroom Party

Here is a look into our week

October Family Project ideas:

Language Arts: Unit 2 Week 1: "Flowers"

Letter of the week: A
Letter A song ABC Mouse

Letter A song Have Fun Teaching

Letter A song Storybots

Home activities: 

Look for the letter A (in all kinds of fonts)
Say words that begin with the /a/ sound and have the /a/ sound in the middle
Draw pictures that begin with the /a/ sound

Weekly reading comprehension test: Every Friday (Based on the comprehension skill of the week)

This week's focus: compare and contrast

High Frequency Words (HFW-also known as Sight words : Same set of words last for two weeks. These words are meant to be read just by seeing them.
This week's words: have, is

Sight Word Sundaes: (HFW word list): Every time your child passes a word list, they will be given the next list to practice and will be given a part of their Sundae. Please color, cut out at home and return back to me. I will be hanging these up in the classroom.

Math: Unit 2-numbers to 10 Lessons 3.3 to 3.7
Unit 3 Numbers to 10
Students will be able to count and say up to 10
Count and cross items out

Science: Pumpkins

Students will be able to state facts about pumpkins

Social Studies: Halloween Around the World

Students will be able to state facts about Halloween around the world

Writing: The Handwriting House
Write first letter sound identification

Please feel free to stop by with any questions or concerns. If you are unable to, you may always email me or text back via my reminders.