The week of Nov. 5-9.

Whew!  What a crazy week of fun!  I'm ready to get back to a "normal" school week!  See pics below from Halloween and our field trip.  There's lots of them!

We are learning about the globe and flat map of the world this week.  Today we learned about the 7 continents and 4 oceans.  Ask your child what continent we live on to review.  We are zoning in on where we live each day. Tomorrow, we will learn that we live in the U.S.A.  Wednesday we will learn about Kansas, Thursday we will learn about Johnson County, and Friday, we will learn about Shawnee and write our address.

The map of your child's bedroom is due next Monday.  Please make sure to help them but not do the whole map for them.  Don't forget to show them how to add N, E, S, W on the compass.

We are already 5 days in November.  Please make sure to fill out the Book-it calendar for Nov. The most important part of the calendar is making it a routine of reading each day with your child.  I know busy nights occur which is why we are looking for 20 out of 30 days.  Treasure these days that your child wants you to sit with them as they enjoy listening to you or you enjoy listening to them read!  I sure miss it!  Hopefully you have found a safe place that works for you for the calendar!

Istation--We tested on Istation last Thursday, so your child may have moved up a level or may be working on the same level depending on how they did on the test.  Please try to make this a priority over games.  Sit with your child at times and see how they are doing on Istation.  If they aren't understanding a concept, it might be good to work on it separate from Istation.

Reading this week!
This week we are reading two short stories and retelling them to practice our comprehension.  We are also making predictions about what we think the title tells us about what's going to happen in the story.  Transition words will be introduced--first, next, last

Our letter is short and long "o".
Our sight words are: on, he, love
Our color is:  rainbow  colors--Mrs. Scott has the rainbow snack!
The kids can wear as many bright colors as they can find on Thursday.

Social Studies:  Veteran's Day will be our topic this week as we read stories about it. 

Math this week!  
Our topic is over 11-20.  Today we learned how to count, read, and write 13, 14, 15.  On our assignment we are circling a ten, writing one down for a ten, then counting the ones or left overs and writing them down to make our number.

Help at home--I am sending home a note with 2 ten frames attached for you to practice filling in the ten frames and writing the number.  The sheet is not laminated so you will want to use and object from home like cheerios to fill in the ten frame.  They can write the number on something else.  This is just for practice at home.  Place value-tens and ones, is a difficult concept and several do not know the numbers 11-20.  Let me know if you have any questions please.

Coming up!

Nov. 8       Rainbow  snack--Mrs. Scott

Nov. 16     Happy Bear presentation

Nov. 21-25   Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 1        Winter Wonderlans
Dec. 14      Job Day--info. coming home soon
Dec. 10     Last day before Christmas Vacation

Orange Day

Halloween Pictures

Field Trip