November is Here!
Halloween Party
Monday is the big day!!!
Parade is at 1:40 and the classroom parties start at 2:00.
Monday is the big day!!!
Parade is at 1:40 and the classroom parties start at 2:00.
Reading
We will read the story Exploring Parks with Ranger Dockett. Ranger Dockett is an urban park ranger who teaches people about exploring nature in a city park.
The phonics lessons will emphasize consonant clusters with r, l, and s. We will learn about the two sounds for c. We will also review the long vowel sounds of o, u, and e.
The vocabulary words for the week are: exploring, habitat, protect, ranger, tours, and urban.
Our grammar lessons will focus on command sentences.
Descriptive Stories
The children wrote stories describing their Halloween costumes. As I mentioned before, we will focus on the traits of good writing this year. In writing descriptive stories the children were encouraged to think about word choice. When we explore word choice in the classroom, we focus on the parts of speech that writers use to convey meaning. It's about selecting words carefully to craft fluent sentences and create a lasting image in the reader's mind.
The stories were very good.
Reading Logs
The October logs are due Tuesday, November 1st. The children will receive their November logs at that time. The prize the children worked for in October was lunch in the room with a movie.
Pledge
Our pledge people this week were, Anabella, Nora, Patrick, Tom, Ashanti, Gretchen, Keaton, Nathan, Paolo, and Jenna. They did an awesome job!
Math
The Chapter 5 test was Friday. We will begin Chapter 6 on Monday. In Chapter 6 will continue to work on two digit addition with regrouping.
We also took the timed fact tests during the week, looks like we need to get back to practicing.
Student of the Week
Nathan was our special student this week. Nathan has one older sister. A few of Nathan's favorite things are the color orange, dolphins, bananas, I Spy books and football. At school he likes gym best and at home he likes to play. Nathan has a black belt in karate. When he grows up he would like to be a video game designer.
Nathan was our special student this week. Nathan has one older sister. A few of Nathan's favorite things are the color orange, dolphins, bananas, I Spy books and football. At school he likes gym best and at home he likes to play. Nathan has a black belt in karate. When he grows up he would like to be a video game designer.
Elizabeth Ide Movie Night
Ide movie night is November 4th.
