What a fun week with celebrating Halloween right in the middle! We made a class book about Halloween 2012 so look for it to travel to your home soon. Thanks to all of you who made our Halloween so special. Our party was a blast.

Math: We will work in Chapter 9 this week and also talk about fact families for the rest of the month.
Continue with your daily at home flash card work as it is really helping the kids know their facts faster!

Language Arts: We will enjoy two great stories this week with the strategy focus being evaluation and comparing and contrasting. We will also learn how to write in a different language! We will focus on the short e sound this week so you could also do that in your nightly reading.

Our word wall words for this week are: know, them, about, each, then

Our phonograms for this week are: oo, ng, or, oa, oe. It is fun to watch the kids find phonograms in the words they read and see how much it helps them with their spelling.

Science: We will continue our study of plants and seeds.

Social Studies: We will start our unit on times now and long ago. Thank you for sending in your child's baby picture to participate in the Everybody Changes activity. It is a fun to see how every has changed and it also helps us remember how important details are in our writing!