Upcoming Events/Mark your calendars:
- Monday, November 11: 9:30am Veteran’s Day Mass
- Tuesday, November 12: 8am Mass
- Thursday, November 14: We will attend the Lyons Township choir performance in church at 9am.
- Friday, November 15: Dental presentation at 10am.
Looking Ahead/mark your calendars: There are some important events coming up and I want to make sure you have these marked down! 🙂
- Thursday, November 21st: Kindergarten blessings feast; students do NOT need to bring a lunch to school on this day. Watch for an email from the room moms about what we need for this event!
- Tuesday, November 26: PT conferences and 11:00am dismissal
- Friday, December 20: This will be our Christmas Kindergarten performance day! Please mark your calendars and plan to attend! 🙂 Here is the plan: Mass will be at 9:30, prepared by the kindergarten and 8th grade. Immediately following the 9:30 Mass, students will get on the altar to present their songs and poems. The Mass and presentation will go until about 11:00. After this, students will return to school for lunch and then have a birthday party for Baby Jesus beginning at 12:45. We will need 5 volunteers for this event, so stay tuned for more information in December. We will ask parents that had a chance to help out at the Halloween party to wait for 1 day before signing up to volunteer at the Christmas party just so we know everyone has a chance to volunteer. 🙂 Don’t forget, this is also an early 2pm dismissal day.
What’s Due:
- FSA is hosting a MRS. FIELDS fundraiser. The goal is for each family to sell 10 items. Yum! This information was in your Wednesday envelope.
- If you choose to do the Pizza Hut reading log, you can turn those in! For those who have participated before, they don’t mail me the certificates to distribute anymore, they’re printable ones. They’re not as official looking, but the good news is they’ll still get you that free pizza! 🙂
- The Halloween candy sort page can be turned in any day ! Choose three candies (reeses, skittles, starburst, etc.), sort, then count and tally, and finally, write the number in the box. Halloween sort
- Boom cards are posted in your SEESAW messages!
Next Week:
Language Arts: In Fundations I have introduced:
- T, top, /t/,
- B , bat, /b/
- F, fun, /f/
- M, man, /m/
- N, nut, /n/
- i, itch, /i/
- u, up, /u/
- c, cat, /c/
- o, octopus, /o/
- a, apple /a/
- g, game /g/
- s, snake /s/
- d, dog /d/
- E, Ed, /e/
- R, rat, /r/.
- p, pan, /p/
- j, jug, /j/.
We will finish up P and J and move on to the following (letter, keyword sound):
l, light /l/
k, kite /k/
h, hat, /h/
High Frequency words: I have introduced: NO, GO, THE, YES, WE, TO, WILL, DO, A, MY, LIKE, AND, HAVE YOU. Next week, I will introduce COLOR WORDS: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, pink, black, brown. Our new NOVEMBER word wall was sent home on Thursday!
Shared writing: We will be finishing up our shared writing stories next week. Students follow along as we fill in in missing words or letters on chart paper to create a story about each child following this format: My name is___, I am __ years old, I like ___, I do not like ____.
Read alouds: We will continue with Thanksgiving read alouds and also Thanksgiving books at the listening center! We will continue to focus on naming the character, setting, problem and solution and work on the skill of retelling stories from the beginning to the middle and end.
Journaling: Journaling is going SO well. Students are working hard to write using lowercase letters, use spaces in between words and also remember a stop sign (punctuation) at the end of their sentences. Right now our writing time is very guided as we focus on the skills mentioned above.
Math: We will finish modules 4-6 next week and will move on to our next workbook, modules 7-9 which is all about:
- Counting to 100 by ones. At home: please practice!
- Counting to 100 by tens (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100). At home: please practice!
- Counting forward from a given number.
- Identifying a greater number of objects (within 10).
- Identifying a lesser number of objects (within 10).
- Comparing groups within ten.
We will also continue to practice:
- tallying, graphing and sorting!
Religion: Every couple of days, we will be adding a feather to our “thankful turkeys.” Each feather will have one thing that we are thankful to God for. Next week, we will also illustrate our new pocket chart song, “the earth below, the sky above, the food we eat, the friends we love, are all gifts from God, all gifts from God!”