The week of Oct. 8-11.

Apple Day was a huge success!  Thank you parents for contributing your time and donating the apples.  The kids had so much fun!  We will have Farm Day May 3.  It is similar to Apple Day with the stations.  Look for the Apple Day pics below!  The apple frames your children made will be handed out later this week with their pictures that were taken.

Picture Day is tomorrow!  It will be individual and class pictures, so hopefully all will be here for the class picture!  There are retakes later if you do not like the pictures from tomorrow.

Permission forms!  I received several today!  Keep them coming!  Please make sure to paper clip or staple the check to the form so it isn't dropped.  This will be helpful all the rest of your days your child is in school.  I would suggest always putting cash in an envelope and paper clipping it to the note, so that if it falls out of the folder, it is not taken.  There will be many times you send money or checks to school throughout the years!

Lunch on Thursday is Manager's choice.  Lunch A will be Chicken Quesadilla, Lunch B is still Popcorn Chicken.

Friday and Monday are Inservice and 1/2 workday for teachers to work on grade cards.  No school for kids.

This week in Reading--
We read The Little Red Hen today.  We talked about kindness and being helpful.  We will be retelling the major events in the story using our Five Finger Retell, and looking for nouns and verbs.
Science
We are also reading various stories about leaves and the seasons.  We will use the leaves brought from home to learn about etching.  They will make a colorful picture using the leaves!  We will also read a story called, From Seed to Pumpkin, then we will put pictures of a growing pumpkin in sequential order.

Letter of the week:  Nn (We shake our heads no saying the /Nn/ sound.)

sight words:  be, my, black
Color of the week:  black (Robleh has the black snack!)

Handwriting:  Using big and short lines, we will write H and K.

Math this week:  We will take our Topic 3 math test tomorrow (Tuesday) and begin Topic 4-Comparing and Ordering Numbers to 10.

If your child missed naming any numbers to 10 on their progress report, please work on this with your child.  Also, have your child count to 20 and make sure he/she isn't skipping any numbers.  Does he/she know his letters and sounds for Mm, Aa (long and short), Ss, Tt, Nn?
My helper will be testing them over this again if they missed it on their progress report.

Lastly, I have introduced all of the 1st quarter sight words now.  Be and my are the last ones.  Are you working on these at home?  They will be tested again tomorrow.  Please don't let your child get too far behind.  It is hard to catch up!  We will start on 2nd quarter sight words next week!  5-10 min. review each night will go far!

Istation--The recording week for Istation minutes begins on Sundays and goes through Saturdays.  A few kids thought they should get a certificate for their minutes yesterday, but they will get it next Monday.

Coming up!

Oct. 9        School pictures today!

Oct. 11      End of 1st quarter.  Black Day.  Robbie has the black snack

Oct. 12      No School  Inservice/workday for grade cards.  

Oct. 15      No School   Inservice all day

Oct. 18       Wear white today!  Zachary has the white snack.

Oct. 19      Gradecards posted on Skyward

Oct.  25     Wear pink today!  Chloe has the pink snack.

Oct. 31      Halloween Party!  Parade at 2:30 and party following until 3:15. 

Apple Day Fun!

Building numbers with linking cubes!