It was so wonderful having the chance to talk with you all at conferences this past week. I swear I could talk to you for hours. 20 minutes is just too short of a time. I am so humbled by the trust you put in me. It’s an honor to work alongside you all as we work to continue helping your child grow into the best person they can be. I often wonder what sort of amazing things each kid will do as the year progresses with the strengths that are really starting to show in each of them.
Reminders
RED FOLDER: RED Folders are due tomorrow. The folder should only take about 20-30 minutes a night. Students should be doing about 5-10 minutes of Math IXL, 10 minutes of word practice (they can choose from the nonsense words, poem worksheet, spelling words, sight words, or sight word sentences) and 10-15 minutes of reading with you or another person.
HALLOWEEN: Our school policy is we do not wear Halloween costumes to school. We have planned fun activities to do with your kid next Monday, but please don’t send them to school in costumes. There will also be a fall festival at our school on Friday October 28 from 6-8 PM where your child can wear their Halloween costume. Please join us for trick-or-treating throughout the building, a spooky dance in the gym, and Halloween games in the cafeteria.
Running club: K-2 Running Club is up and running. If your kid is in running club and it is cancelled, look for an e-mail letting you know. I will also message you through class dojo. If I don’t hear otherwise, I will assume your child is doing running club after school.
Here’s What We’re Learning Next Week
Reading
- Comprehension
- Genre: Expository
- Strategy: summarize
- Skill: Main idea and details
- High-Frequency Words
- out, many, live, place
- Oral Vocabulary
- amazed, frequently, service, useful, variety
- Fluency
- Expression
- Phonemic Awareness
- Phoneme blending (putting sounds in words together), phoneme isolation (what’s the middle sound in cat?), Phoneme segmentation (breaking sounds apart)
- Phonics
- S Blends (spin) and r Blends (grab)
Writing
- Grammar:
- Irregular plural nouns
- Sentence punctuation
- Expository- We are working on writing 5 sentences paragraphs that start with introducing a topic, writing 3 facts about our topic and closing it out with an opinion about our topic. Students are learning to use webs to plan out their ideas.
- Spelling words:
- Phonics words: spill, spin, grab, grass, drip, drop
- Challenge words: out, many, live, place
- Extra Challenge Vocabulary: amazed, frequently, service, useful, variety
Math
- Students will practice representing two-digit numbers with words and numeral expanders (62 is also sixty-two or 6 tens and 2 ones).
- Students will work with ten as a group.
- Students will practice using dimes as an abstract representation the develop the idea of ten as a unit.
- Students will learn about telling time to the hour on an analog clock.
- IXL Skills next week: S.2, S.3, S.5, S.7, S.9, O.3, A.6
Science:
- We’re starting a new unit all about soils.