Happy Halloween

Math

In math students are working on:

• Place Value Patterns Within Numbers
• Skip Counting by 5, 10, 100, and 1,000
• Comparing Numbers Using Place Value
• Comparing Numbers Using a Number Line
  

Upcoming Dates

Monday, Nov. 8th- Teacher Workshop Day, No School

Tuesday, Nov. 9th- 2 Hour Late Start, Wear an Irish Shirt

Thursday, Nov. 11th- Book Orders Due

Spelling Words

Week Of:

Nov. 1-5

One-Syllable Words

1. bright

2. pie

3. sigh

4. high

5. flight

6. lie

Two-Syllable Words

7. brightly

8. lightning

9. tighten

 

Good Readers...

This week during Daily Five our class revisited some CAFE strategies to help students become even better readers such as:

• Good readers use pictures, graphs, and charts to figure out unknown words.
• Good readers reread.
• Good readers look for known chunks within words.
• Good readers make predictions before, during, and after reading a text.
  

Writing

This week in writing your child started working on the steps needed to write a Personal Narrative. A Personal Narrative is a true story about something that has happened in life. The main focus this week was brainstorming a list of topics and then narrowing down those topics to one idea to write about.

Monday Lunch Menu Change

 On Monday the lunch menu will be pancakes instead of french toast sticks.

Upcoming Dates

Monday & Tuesday, Oct. 18 & 19th- Evening Conferences

Tuesday, Oct. 19th- Students may buy at the Book Fair

Wednesday, Oct. 20th- All Day Conferences, No School for Elementary Students 

Thursday & Friday, Oct. 21 & 22nd- No School

 

Fall Celebration

We will be having a Fall Celebration in our classroom on Friday, Oct. 29th. If students choose they may bring a costume along to school to change into in the afternoon. Costumes are optional. Some students have asked about bringing a treat to school that day to share with the class. Students may bring treats to school to share with the class as long as the treats are store bought. We have 17 students in our classroom.

Spelling Words

No spelling words for the week of  Oct. 18-19. Students will be tested on the words below on Friday, Oct. 29th.
One-Syllable Words

1. dream

2. feel

3. yield

4. cream

5. wheel

6. field

Two-Syllable Words

7. greedy

8. increase

9. relief

 

Irish Store

This week your child got the opportunity to go to our new Irish Store. Students had a tough decision to make; use their shamrock tickets now for a prize on Tier 1 or save their shamrock tickets to add onto next months total to get a bigger prize from Tier 2, 3, and 4. Great lessons were learned this week on how sometimes we need to keep saving in order to get something bigger that we may want. Ask your child what he/she might be saving up for!

Warm Clothes

The weather changed quickly this week. Please make sure your child is bringing sweatshirts and jackets to school for those chillier days.

Phonics

In phonics your child worked with words that had the long o sound within them as in boat, show, and toe. We spent a lot of time focusing on the letter patterns oa, oe, and ow within words.

 

Book Orders

Please be patient as we patiently await for our Scholastic Book order box to arrive. Like everything right now, Scholastic is experiencing shipping delays. Hopefully the books will arrive soon!

Upcoming Dates

Tuesday, Oct. 12th- 2 Hour Late Start, Wear an Irish Shirt

Friday, October 15th- Wear Orange

Spelling Words

Oct. 11-15

One-Syllable Words

1. float

2. doe

3. grown

4. boat

5. shown

6. toe

Two-Syllable Words

7. below

8. yellow

9. toenail

 

Planners

 Thank you for looking at and signing your child's planner every night. This is a great way for home/school communication. If there is ever a time that you would like to ask me something or you think I should know about something, write it in your child’s planner. I check everyone's planner each morning.

 

Bookbags

Bookbags are just starting to come home this week. We are still practicing what it looks like to sign, read, and return bookbags daily so your child may have the same book in his/her bookbag for several days. If this happens have your child read the same book again to work on fluency or choose a book from home to have your child read. Once I get through all reading groups bookbags should be coming home almost every other day with a new book in it to read. Please make sure to sign your child's yellow reading sheet daily and also have your child do some type of math each night and write it on the yellow reading sheet as well. Some math ideas include: Prodigy, Sumdog, flashcards, shake dice, play a math game, do a math sheet, etc.

App Practice

In class your child has been using the following apps to help them practice additional math skills and their spelling words. Your child is able to get to these apps through Clever which is taped inside their planner. The apps your child have been working with are:

• Prodigy
• Sumdog
• Spelling City