Sunday Funday!

 

Hi Families,

What a rainy weekend!  I Hope we have a beautiful sunny day for the pumpkin patch this Tuesday.  The weather channel says 71 and sunny!  A couple notes before we talk about this week....

-On Friday, we celebrated our writing pieces that the students have worked so hard on during writer’s workshop.  We celebrated with a gallery walk, share time and APPLE JUICE.  The students enjoyed this...pictures to come!

-Tuesday, October 15 we are going to Gaver's Pumpkin Patch.  We will leave the school at 9:30 am and arrive back to school around 2 pm.  

-If your student is packing a lunch please send it in a disposable bag.

-Please dress your students in comfortable, weather appropriate clothes.  Sneakers will be best...we will do a lot of walking. 

-Each student will bring home a medium size pumpkin of their choice!!

-Thank you to the parents that have donated their time and are attending the field trip.  We will have two adults with every group of 4-5 children.  This is wonderful and helps to ensure safety for all students.  If you are a parent chaperone...please send in $7 for your ticket.  This applies to parents who are meeting us at the pumpkin patch too.  We can only take 4 parents on the bus.  We appreciate your understanding in this matter.  

-If you have extra plastic grocery bags could you please send them to school.  We will use grocery bags for each student to carry their pumpkin home. 

-We will have a book exchange tomorrow (Monday).  Please send your students to school with their library book.  Also, can you please be on the lookout for Put me in the zoo, one of my students is missing this book.  Thank you!

-Tomorrow I will be at school but we will have a substitute for the majority of the day.  I will be pulling students to complete quarter 1 assessments during this time.  Thank you for your understanding!  Assessing is much easier when it is done one-on-one.  

-Please remember to send student reading baggies to school each day.  The little books, word rings and any other puzzle/activity is needed during reading group time. Thank you!  Also, be on the lookout for an extra word ring.  One of my students is missing a sight word ring.

-We are working on ordering more durable bags for reading group.  In the meantime, we will use gallon size bags.  

-Thank you for working with your students on homework and reading baggie activities.  I have been so impressed with the work that is coming back to school in student journals!

-I sent homework journals home on Friday this week because I had them ready!  Thank you to my Friday parent volunteer!

 Morning meeting:

• Poem: I'm a Little Pumpkin 
• choral read the poem
• identify rhyming words
• identify sight words

•  Poem: I'm a Little Acorn Brown 
• Identify rhyming words
• Identify and define new vocabulary
• act out poem
• identify sight words
• identify beginning sounds
• identify number of syllables

• Weekly sight words: we, my, you

Math: 

Standards - 

Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.  

Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length, or weight.  Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.  

Ask your student about the "One More Game".

Ask your student about describing the measurable attributes of a pumpkin.

Ask your student about the shake and spill game. 

Science: 

This week the students will have Science with Ms. House

Essential Questions-

Where is the strongest part of a magnet?

How can an object become a temporary magnet?

How can we tell and object is magnetic, just by touching it?

Writing: 

Students will learn how to stretch a small moment story over a sequence of pages.  We will look at examples from our favorite authors.  We will discuss how this makes our moment feel more important and interesting. 

We will write about our favorite thing we did at the pumpkin patch. 

We will participate in an ELA (English Language Experience).  We will cut open a pumpkin and explore the pulp and seeds inside.  We will describe and write about how the pumpkin feels. 

Reading:

Students will respond to questions about text by speaking, dramatizing, or writing. 

Questions: 

-What is the problem in the story?

-How did the character try to solve the problem?

-What was the solution?

-Beginning, middle, end?

-What do you think the most important part of the story is?     Why?

-What did the author mean by these words_______?

-What lesson do you think the author wants us to learn? 

Books we will read: 

The Lion and the Mouse

Lily's Purple Plastic Purse

Owen 

If you have questions about individualized reading groups please call or email me.  

Pictures to follow!  Have a great week!