The week of Oct. 24-28

I hope you all enjoyed a nice weekend with your family!  I read about some fun things in your child's journal today!

We are enjoying Halloween books and activities this week!  We read "Spookley the Square Pumpkin" and made our own Spookley.  Other fun Halloween books we are reading are "Big Pumpkin" and then making a witch our of our hand prints.  "Room on the Broom", then retelling the story by adding the characters in order on a broom and writing about what we would take on a broom with us. 

Friday the Firefighters are coming to visit about their important job!  It got rescheduled from earlier in the week.  

Phonics:

r blends:  br, cr, dr, fr, gr, 

The class does a great job thinking of words beginning with blends and spelling them.

Decodable books:  Please have your child read these 2-3 times until they are reading fluently without needing help!  Then, make sure to save them in a safe place (folder?) to pull out and reread to practice.

sight words:  said, when, there, where

These are "heart" words meaning we have to memorize them by heart as they are not easy to sound out.  

Said -the /s/ and /d/ can be sounded out, but we have to memorize the /ai/ since it sounds like a short e.

when-This one we can sound out.

there- we know /th/, but have to memorize /ere/.

where-we know /wh/ but have to memorize /ere/.

Math

We began chapter 3 on Addition to strategies to 20.

This kids did well on their chapter 2 math tests.  I will send them home on Friday with their Grade card skills report.

Gradecards:

These will be found on Skyward on Friday, Oct. 28.  I will send home a packet Friday with the 1st quarter skills, along with an explanation of the grade card.  Any highlighted areas are skills your child needs to work on.  I also made notes and comments at the end to help you understand where your child is at.  If you have any questions, please let me know!

Halloween--The parade begins at 9:05.  We will follow the 5th grade!  Please have your child wear their costume to school!  If it is not over their clothes, please send some clothes as he/she may not want to wear it all day.  

We will be doing fun Halloween activities throughout the day!  Our 4th grade buddies will join us for an activity too!

Coming up!

Oct. 28      Grades Posted

Oct. 29.     Trunk or Treat at CCE

Oct. 31       Halloween parade-Your child may wear their costume to school.  It's really helpful if the costume slips on over their clothing and can be taken off easily.  See the outdoor parade route in the Parent Smore!