November Begins

We celebrated the end of October with a visit to the pumpkin patch.  It was fun to watch the students pick the perfect pumpkins.  We begin to welcome November and the fun it brings.

NOTE:  I created a slide show of our perfect pumpkins but it is not posting so I will check with my blog expert and try and get it posted soon.  Thanks for being patient with me as I learn to blog.

In reading this week we will study the letter "Cc" as in "cow on a cab".  The word wall words are we, she, ten, funny.  Please make sure that you are doing the reading homework each night.  When a review sheet 4 comes home that means more than likely your child will have an unit review the next day.

In math we are focusing on concepts of ten.  I'm establishing a number sense for your child.  Just because your child can count up to (or past) ten, does not mean  that your child understands the whole-part-part relationship of a number.  We are focusing on numbers. For example:  I'm working with the students to learn that 7 can be made from 4 and 3, 5 and 2, 6 and 1, and 7 and 0.

Our poem this week deals with multiple meaning words.  It will help you get into the mood for Thanksgiving.  Poetry notebooks come home every Friday and need to be returned on Monday.

We spend a lot of time listening to books and learning how good readers comprehend stories.  We are learning how to make connections when we read.  We are learning how to make a text to self connection and text to text connections.  A text to self connection is when something in the story makes us think of our own lives.  A text to text connection is when something happens in a story that makes us think of another story we read.  To make connections we have to use our schema.  Hopefully you are all caught up with the reading lingo that we use in Room 115.

There will be no library this week due to the book fair.  Instead, when your child is finished reading the library book, send the book to school and I will allow time during the day to check out a new book.  The book fair ends Wednesday.  Please label all money for the book fair.

Don't forget that school photo proofs are due on Monday, November 1.  The pick up date for the chicken fundraiser is Wednesday at the park across the street.  Information about the chicken went home in folders last Friday..