Friday, October 25, 2013

October 28-November 1

We have a very exciting week coming up!  Thursday is our Halloween party and parade and Friday is Grandfriends' Day!  Along with those events, we will also continue to create and read words that end in -at and -am.  This is a great activity for home as well! We are also starting to create addition equations in math! Wow!!

Halloween Party Reminder:  We will put costumes on before our party.  Please don't send your  child to school wearing their costume.  Also, please make sure costumes are not bloody/violent and do not send in any type of weapon.  Thanks!

Grandfriends' Day Reminder:  If you haven't turned in your RSVP forms yet, please do so by Monday.  We need these to determine end of the day plans and how many chairs we need.  Also, this event is for Grandparents/Grandfriends only (sorry parents :( We will hopefully film the performance and share that out).

Here's a breakdown of the week:

Reading: Lesson 7
  • Phonological Awareness: review rhyme recognition and production
  • Phonics: word building
  • Reviewing High-Frequency Words: I, a, my, the, go, can, to
  • Introducing and identifying beginning, middle, and end in a story
  • Robust Vocabulary: sly, proceed, apparel, announced, imaginary, precisely
  • Continuing to work on recognizing and writing sentences
  • Continuing with centers: five centers containing an apple art project, a fall tree art project, number writing,  rhyming on the smart board, and a hand tracing/math activity. 
  • Reading The Little School Bus by Carol Roth and Jessica by Kevin Henkes
Math:
  • Unit 2: 
    • 2.5: More Family Math Stories
      • Objectives: establish links between math and the real world, draw 6 objects, write the numeral 6
      • Vocabulary: straight, curved
      • 2.6: Introduction to Repeating Patterns
        • Objectives: Identify and order numbers 1 through 10; count out and make 6 through 10 with 5-groups; identify numbers 5 through 10 from the number word; graph to compare two numbers; develop spatial concepts; identify repeating patterns
        • Vocabulary: repeating pattern, up, down, left, right, more, fewer
      • 2.7: Make Repeating Patterns
        • Objectives: make repeating patterns; write the numerals 1 through 5
        • Vocabulary: pattern
    • Math Homework: 
      • Monday: 2.5
      • Tuesday: 
      • Wednesday: 2.7
      • Thursday: 
      • Friday: 
    Science:
    • Continuing to make tree observations; draw in our tree journals; and discuss what happens to trees during the winter months in Minnesota.
    • We will hopefully get to work on our second Lego Engineering project as well

    Let me know if you have any questions.

    Thanks!
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