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!

In Our Class This Week...

Can you believe our first month of school has come and gone?! October is going to be filled with lots of learning and fun activities, just like the month of September. October is also the month we begin Kindergarten leveled rotations and school wide rotations for ELD, RTI and second language. Students last week were sent home with a letter stating where they will be going. If you have any questions please feel free to email me.

Lets begin with some school news:

Bring Your Own Technology Meeting: Monday, October 13 @ 5:30PM

Also, coming soon to REACH:

This Week:

Language Arts:

Math:

Finish up Chapter 2 and test

Numbers 0-9 (write and compare numbers)

We pushed back the date to accommodate the leveled rotations starting this week

Begin Chapter 3
Students will order objects by size.
Students will use comparing words and pair up sets of objects.
Students will order objects by length

Social Studies:

Christopher Columbus

Science:

Boats:
How are different kinds of boats made
What makes boats float?

Experiment (FRIDAY)
Students will make their own boats out of straws, tape, aluminum paper, styrofoam plates, Popsicle sticks

*If you are able to donate any of these items please feel free to email me :)

Leadership:

Leading by example

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me or stop by my classroom.

Johnny Appleseed Celebration

Friday, September 26th was a day for the books! The students got to taste different (delicious) apple products- from apple juice, apple slices, an apple muffin, apple pie, and applesauce. They even got to watch apples being pressed into juice (and taste real apple juice) thanks to Mrs. Votruba. Here are a few pictures from our celebration:

A special thank you to those parents who volunteered and those who donated. THANK YOU!

In Our Class This Week...

What a fun week we had in class! We learned all about apples in different ways. We wrote about the parts of an apple, we tasted apple goodies and of course we learned that apples float (science experiment of the week)! Thank you to all the families that were able to donate items towards our apple celebration, the kids had so much fun! Celebrations like this would not be the same without YOUR support, THANK YOU!

Classroom news:
1. PLEASE sign and return the last page of the Student Handbook to me ASAP.
2. New scholastic flier for the month of October will be going home next week. Flier is already available online.
3. LUNCH order form for the month of October went home Thursday. Be sure to fill it out and turn it in ASAP (especially if your child receives free or reduced lunch). Ms. Judi will be submitting the lunch requests prior to October starting.

OUR WEEK AT A GLANCE

Language Arts:




Math:

Continue with Chapter 2
Students will be able to use 0 to 9 to tell the number of objects
Students will be able to pair up sets of objects with other sets of the same quantity.
Students will pair up sets of objects one-to-one with other sets of the same quantity.

Science:
Continue with Chapter 2
Students will be able to identify a problem and a design and materials for solving it.
Students will note that one can draw and plan, create and test solution.
Students will explain that solutions can be shared in different ways.
Test: Chapter 2

Social Studies:

Unit 3: Lesson 1-What jobs do people do?

Student will match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts

Leadership:

What is leadership? What do leaders do?

As always, feel free to email me or stop by the classroom if you have any questions or concerns. Have a great weekend!

In Our Class This Week...

Good morning! I hope you all had a great week. We had a very busy week in our class. Learned so much but had fun doing it! Please continue to speak with your children about proper restroom use and please remind them to use the restroom before school, during recesses and after school. Thank you!

Lets get started with school news:
9/22 REACH School Board Meeting at 7:00 pm
9/23 First Emergency Drill of the Year:
Please talk to your children about following directions on events like this and how to behave. You may also talk to them about the duck and cover process and another other information you feel your child may need to stay calm on this date and future drills. Thank you.
9/25 Awards Assembly (*those students receiving an award in my class will receive a note home on Monday):
Tk/K 8:00-8:45 am
1st/2nd 8:45-9:30 am
3rd/4th 9:30-10:15 am
Lunch
Our school will now have children input their lunch numbers on a key pad when receiving breakfast or hot lunch. Please practice with your child at home. I will be sending home a copy of the keypad with their lunch numbers in next week's homework packet. Please keep at home to practice daily (this will help lines go by faster). Thank you!
PTO 

More information will be in student's homework this week

Peek at our week:

Language Arts
**I will be sending home a notification letter this week with your user name and password to access our Language Arts curriculum. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

Unit 1-Week 3-"Plaidypus Lost"
Content Knowledge: Families Living, Working, and Playing Together
Phonemic Awareness: Initial Sounds
Letter Recognition: Oo
Comprehension Skill: Sequence
Handwriting: O and o
Listening and Speaking: Rhyme and Rhythm
High Frequency Words: the, little
Words to talk about (amazing words): platypus, around, lost, found, market and groceries

Test: Comprehension-sequence 

Math

Chapter 2-Numbers 0-9
Students will be able to count from 1 to 6.
Students will be able to count from 1 to 7
Students will be able to count from 1 to 8
Students will be able to use 0 to 9 to tell the number of objects
Students will be able to pair up sets of objects with other sets of the same quantity.

Science
Chapter 2: Solve problems
Students will be able to identify a problem and a design and materials for solving it.
Students will note that one can draw and plan, create and test solution
Students will explain that solutions can be shared in different ways
Students will see different items sink or float and will make a prediction about apples and graph it
Test: on Chapter 2

We will also be learning about apples throughout the week in honor of our apple day celebration on Friday. If you would like to donate any apple goodies for Friday please let me know. There is also a sign up sheet on the classroom door. Thank you to all those parents that have already signed up! I can't wait for our fun educational celebration.

Social Studies
Unit 1-Lesson 3: What can we learn from stories?
Student will know beliefs and related behaviors of characters in stories from times past and understand the consequences of the characters' actions
Leadership: Complete and turn in all of your work

**This week's science project involved listening and following directions. 

After making our special Jitter Juice, we used our 5 senses to describe it.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. Enjoy the weekend! :)

LEGO Donations

As some of you might know I will be in charge of the LEGO Engineering program at REACH. I am excited to get this program started because I have seen just how beneficial this program can be for 21st century thinkers and the integration of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Although we have awesome kits, the kits are to be used for all the classes at REACH. I was hoping some of you would be able to donate LEGO pieces for our own classroom use during Math and Friday Fun Centers. Please just pack them with your student so we can start using them as soon as possible!

Thank you in advance for any donation you can make to our classroom.

PS. Yard sales are a great place to find LEGO pieces/kits!

Johnny Appleseed Day

Friday, September 26th is Johnny Appleseed Day. I would love for my kiddos to join in the celebration and learn all about Mr. Johnny Appleseed and apples!

What better way to learn about apples then by using our five senses! If you are able to donate any apple goodies (apple pie, apple muffins, apple juice, applesauce and red and green apples) to our classroom PLEASE let me know. There are 26 students in our class.

Thank you for helping our class learn in fun ways!