This week we will be having a fundraiser to help raise money for two amazing women in our community that have become sick. I sent home a letter last week about it and we will be collecting donations (coins, dollars, anything will help with their medical bills) in our classroom. To make this even more fun for our kiddos, each day we will have a dress up day!
Dress up days:
Monday: Wear your favorite team jersey/shirt (or your teams favorite colors)
Tuesday: Wear PJS
Wednesday: Hat day
Thursday: Bring favorite stuffed animal to school
Friday: Roughneck spirit colors
ON FRIDAY – we will be having our Readers Theater performance in our classroom at 9:30. Please try to make it if you can. The kiddos have been working so hard on this!
This week:
Spelling words: about, how, up, out (Spelling test will be on Thursday due to program on Friday)
Spelling Pattern/Phonics: Review Digraphs: sh, th, wh, ch and adding digraph ph (ph is like wh, the kiddos will have a hard time coming up those words on their own, so to practice just point out words that have that pattern in them.)
Math: Doubles and Doubles plus one. To practice at home: I would make flash cards with the doubles facts on it to practice. I am wanting these facts to be automatic for our kiddos. If they can memorize these facts it will help them so much with our other harder math that will be coming up! Once they memorize the doubles then flash the double and ask what is one more than that. Ex: 3+3 what is one more than this double?, the answer is 7.
Doubles are: 0+0, 1+1, 2+2, 3+3, 4+4, 5+5, 6+6, 7+7, 8+8, 9+9, 10+10
Science/Social Studies: Thanksgiving
Important Dates:
- Friday, November 15th: We get to walk to the high school and watch a production of Cinderella.
- November 22nd: We will have a special performance in our classroom. The students will perform a short readers theater and a few Thanksgiving songs. The kids would love for you to come and watch at 9:30 am! More info will be sent home this week and we hope to see you all there!
- Thanksgiving holiday Nov. 25-29
What we are learning this week:
- Spelling: If, do, will, each
- Spelling pattern/phonics: sh, th, ch, wh
- On the back of the spelling test, the kids will be asked to write which digraph is in each word: For example, there will be a picture of a thumb, the kids will have to write th.
- To Practice:
- Monday: Come up with 3 sh words
- Tuesday: Come up with 3 th words
- Wednesday: Come up with 3 ch words
- Thursday: With your help pick out a few objects that start with wh. (wh is harder for them to come up with words on their own.)
- Reading: We are focusing on reading with expression and fluency.
- Math: Greater than/Less than, ordering numbers
- How you can practice at home:
- Give kiddos two number and ask them which is greater or less than. I am teaching the greater than/less than symbol on Tuesday so after Tuesday you can have them practice writing that. (Example: 67 > 56 )
- We will be learning how to order numbers on Wednesday. You can write 4 numbers on 4 different index cards and have your kiddo put the index cards in order from least to greatest.
- Social Studies/Science: Thanksgiving/ Practice for readers Theater.
It is red ribbon week!
- Monday: Wear red
- Tuesday: Team shirt/jersey (also a half day!)
- Wednesday: Pajama day
- Thursday: Book Character day (if you need help with ideas to help your child be exactly what they want to be let me know! I usually can find a book on anything!)
- Friday: Roughneck Spirit
This Week:
- Math: Place Value
- Spelling: NO SPELLING WORDS THIS WEEK!
- Phonics/word study: sk and sm blends
- Writing: Adjectives
- Science/Social Studies: Pumpkins/ Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
Graded papers will come home Wednesday this week. Also, report cards went home last week, please sign and return. Once I see that you have signed it I will send them back home for you to keep!
Your children will be doing lots of fun activities at the end of the week, so be sure to ask them about the Witch’s Brew, building haunted houses and pumpkin painting! 🙂
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Spelling Words: from, have, for, by
Phonics/Spelling Pattern: Knowing the difference between a long vowel sound and a short Vowel sound. Ex: Cake is Long and Tap is short. To practice say a word and ask if the vowel is a short sound or long sound. (example of words to ask: dice, tip, sip, dime, pop, note, map, make, met, meat) **They do not have to spell them just know if it is short or long sound.
Math: Review word problems/ review addition and subtraction/ figure out all the ways to make 10; Introduce graphs (Monday: Tally Chart, Tuesday: Pictograph, Wednesday: Bar Graph. Thursday: We will see all the ways to make 10!)
Writing: Use a plan to help guide our Writing (Someone, wanted, but, then), Know when to capitalize a letter: Names, I, Days and Months. We will also start practicing editing a paragraph.
Reading: Knowing the difference between fiction and nonfiction. (To practice at home sort books by fiction and nonfiction)
Science/Social Studies: Finish up our unit about inventors: Thomas Edison
Reading folders came home starting Tuesday!! Please have your kiddo read each night and sign. Starting next week there will also be a fluency practice attached to the reading log with instructions on it and this will help us become fluent readers! (While we are getting adjusted to reading groups books might seem either too easy or too hard.)
Spelling words: on, are, as, with
Spelling pattern: -en, -ed, -in, -it, -og, -ot
Writing: Using correct spacing while writing.
Math: Subtraction
Science/Social Studies: Learning about Francis Scott Key, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Benjamin Franklin .
Important Dates:
- Picture day Sept. 19th
- Early release Sept. 25th
- Monster Truck Show October 5th
