We had a perfect time at Lanark / the Alabama Nature Center. The weather was amazing and the children had so much fun being outside. The Alabama Nature Center is open to the public on the third weekend of every month. I encourage you to take your family and enjoy this Alabama treasure. Thanks to the parents that came to help out. Check out the center's website: Alabama Nature Center
Information for the next field trip will come home in Monday's binder. There is NO limit on the number of parents that can chaperone on our Tuesday, October 30 field trip to Dream Field's Pumpkin Patch. If you did not turn in a background check form earlier then please ask for one and I will send it home. Background checks have to be completed and approved before a parent can attend a field trip. The field trip price includes the bus ride, a pumpkin, a picnic lunch and all the activities at Dream Field's. Contact me if you have any questions about our next field trip once you get the paper work.
Thursday is individual school picture day. The children DO NOT have to dress in uniform but they most adhere to dress code standards (no spaghetti straps, no sandals).
We participated in Walk to School Day. With the location of our school it is almost impossible to walk to school but that didn't keep us from celebrating. Movement is great stimulation for the brain so we participated with great excitement.
This is fire prevention week. We will be discussing fire safety and doing a few related activities. Use this opportunity to discuss fire safety in the home.
This is a review week for letter sounds and word wall words. Practice your child's weak areas. I will begin assessing word wall words on Wednesday. To get full credit, the word wall words need to be read instantly and accurately, I will email you by Friday night with the results of your child's word wall word assessment.
I'm going to use this review week to introduce some new thinking strategies for good readers. You might hear your child start to use the word schema. Schema is everything you know in your head to be true (your background / previous knowledge). Schema helps you to understand what you read/hear. I'm sure you will hear the word schema by the end of the week so I wanted you to be prepared to carry on the conversation with your child once the word becomes part of the vocabulary.
In math, we are representing and comparing numbers up to ten. In the next few weeks, we will be using the words: pair (set of two), greater, less, match (one to one correspondence) and the number 10. Since 10 is the foundation of our number system, we are going to be spending a lot of time on activities that allows the children to be able to picture 10 and relate it to other numbers to 10.
Nancy's Ice is Monday for $1.00. If you are having a difficult time remembering Monday is Italian Ice, you can prepay for several weeks at a time. I will let you know when you are running low on Italian Ice money. Return library books and poetry journals on Monday too.
Our poem last week was a perfect way to introduce fall and the leaves falling off trees one by one. We made our own fall leaves with the trick of no scissors being allowed. The only way to make our trees were to tear with our fingers. Tearing little pieces of paper is great for strengthening fingers and improving fine motor skills.
Our poem this week is a tongue twister. Tongue twisters, poems and songs are wonderful ways to help your beginning reader. In the teacher world, we call these activities oral language development. At this age, you want your child to be talking! Talking allows your child to manipulate our English language. Talking allows them to make sense of how words are put together, learn about correct verb tenses and improves vocabulary. So encourage talking, rhyming, singing, silly words and reading out loud to your child. Look at the silliness we had last week, acting out the Itsy Bitsy Spider with a simple puppet. Enjoy this time of incredible learning opportunities with your child.
Information came out last week from the room parents about Room 115's first "Crafternoon" of the year on Friday, October 26. Our theme is centered around the book "Miss Spider's Tea Party" by David Kirk. I hope you can assist the room mothers as we put together a fun way to spend the last hour of the day on Friday, October 26. If you did not get the email or a flyer then please contact the room parents. We want to make sure our system of communication is reaching you.
Upcoming Events
10.10 Room 115 Word Wall Words assessment
10.11 Fall Picture Day
10:11 Early Bird wristband sales end for the Blount Fall Festival
10.11 Spirit Night at Flip's
10.18 Blount Fall Festival 4:30 pm-7:30 pm (rain date is October 25)
10.26 Rooom 115's Crafternoon 1:45-3:00
10.29 Chappy's Spirit Night
10.30 Kindergarten field trip to the pumpkin patch
11.1 Just Give campaign ends
The Just Give campaign is in full force! You can continue to send in money until November 1. Thank you for supporting our school!
Contact me with any questions or concerns. Thanks for sharing your treasure with me so that Room 115 can be one of the happiest places I know!
Information for the next field trip will come home in Monday's binder. There is NO limit on the number of parents that can chaperone on our Tuesday, October 30 field trip to Dream Field's Pumpkin Patch. If you did not turn in a background check form earlier then please ask for one and I will send it home. Background checks have to be completed and approved before a parent can attend a field trip. The field trip price includes the bus ride, a pumpkin, a picnic lunch and all the activities at Dream Field's. Contact me if you have any questions about our next field trip once you get the paper work.
Thursday is individual school picture day. The children DO NOT have to dress in uniform but they most adhere to dress code standards (no spaghetti straps, no sandals).
We participated in Walk to School Day. With the location of our school it is almost impossible to walk to school but that didn't keep us from celebrating. Movement is great stimulation for the brain so we participated with great excitement.
This is fire prevention week. We will be discussing fire safety and doing a few related activities. Use this opportunity to discuss fire safety in the home.
This is a review week for letter sounds and word wall words. Practice your child's weak areas. I will begin assessing word wall words on Wednesday. To get full credit, the word wall words need to be read instantly and accurately, I will email you by Friday night with the results of your child's word wall word assessment.
I'm going to use this review week to introduce some new thinking strategies for good readers. You might hear your child start to use the word schema. Schema is everything you know in your head to be true (your background / previous knowledge). Schema helps you to understand what you read/hear. I'm sure you will hear the word schema by the end of the week so I wanted you to be prepared to carry on the conversation with your child once the word becomes part of the vocabulary.
In math, we are representing and comparing numbers up to ten. In the next few weeks, we will be using the words: pair (set of two), greater, less, match (one to one correspondence) and the number 10. Since 10 is the foundation of our number system, we are going to be spending a lot of time on activities that allows the children to be able to picture 10 and relate it to other numbers to 10.
Nancy's Ice is Monday for $1.00. If you are having a difficult time remembering Monday is Italian Ice, you can prepay for several weeks at a time. I will let you know when you are running low on Italian Ice money. Return library books and poetry journals on Monday too.
Our poem last week was a perfect way to introduce fall and the leaves falling off trees one by one. We made our own fall leaves with the trick of no scissors being allowed. The only way to make our trees were to tear with our fingers. Tearing little pieces of paper is great for strengthening fingers and improving fine motor skills.
Information came out last week from the room parents about Room 115's first "Crafternoon" of the year on Friday, October 26. Our theme is centered around the book "Miss Spider's Tea Party" by David Kirk. I hope you can assist the room mothers as we put together a fun way to spend the last hour of the day on Friday, October 26. If you did not get the email or a flyer then please contact the room parents. We want to make sure our system of communication is reaching you.
Upcoming Events
10.10 Room 115 Word Wall Words assessment
10.11 Fall Picture Day
10:11 Early Bird wristband sales end for the Blount Fall Festival
10.11 Spirit Night at Flip's
10.18 Blount Fall Festival 4:30 pm-7:30 pm (rain date is October 25)
10.26 Rooom 115's Crafternoon 1:45-3:00
10.29 Chappy's Spirit Night
10.30 Kindergarten field trip to the pumpkin patch
11.1 Just Give campaign ends
The Just Give campaign is in full force! You can continue to send in money until November 1. Thank you for supporting our school!
Contact me with any questions or concerns. Thanks for sharing your treasure with me so that Room 115 can be one of the happiest places I know!
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