Friday, September 30, 2011

October 3-7

Happy October!

Looking ahead in Science next week, we will continue discussing Fall and all its splendor. Stop by the classroom and see our fall trees. We will make fall rakes to help us with all the falling leaves! We will also continue our study of the 5 food groups. I hope you heard all about the milk group last week and took the time to count how many time you ate something from that group.

In Language Arts, we will continue to enjoy the story Jasper as we learn all about sequencing stories. We will take a few days and write our own sequel to the story focusing on story structure, beginning, middle and end.

Here is a list of the word wall words that we have on our Word Wall so far....
are, a, and, at, as, all, an, be, by, can, did, do, for, from, friend, find, go, he, has, here, have, him, had, his, it, I is, if, like, my, me, more, made, make, not, no, nice, of, on, our, play, so, school, see, some, she, said, saw, them, time, to, they, this, the, that, up, very, what, where, went, we, with, will, was, you

Our word wall words for this week are...find, has, had, just, in

In math, we will work in Chapter 26, Positions and Figures. Please use the workbook pages that correspond to that chapter at home. Also continue daily review of addition facts to ten. We discussed the many different strategies students use when adding; using fingers, drawing a picture, counting on, memorizing and more. So please discuss with your child what works for him/her when adding. All students should have the goal of memorizing addition facts through 20 by the year's end.

Many thanks for the wonderful birthday! You were so generous with the gifts, treats, and surprises! I can't wait to go shopping with my gift cards! I loved celebrating with you and thank you for making me feel so special!