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Week of Oct. 13th-17th, 2015

Thank you for sending your child with their library books, reading logs, and home readers.  You are helping us to grow readers!  This Friday will be the RCE Fall Festival.  We hope to see you at this fun event! J

This week we will explore the following:

Theme: FALL!!

Reading:  We will have fun with Fall stories, focusing on story elements.  We will also sequence and retell, which are two very important reading skills!

Writing:  This week we will make literacy connections to Fall books for our own individual book making/writing! We will learn the routines of Writer’s Workshop.  Our authors will be very busy!  We will write about colors we see, fall, etc.  Hooray!

Word Wall Words:  

REVIEW: I, the, can, see, my, is, like, red, yellow, blue, green, orange, black, brown, white, pink, purple

NEW WORDS FOR THE WEEK:  and, to

Word Study: We will focus on the letter sounds of F and D.

Math: This week we will continue problem solving, focusing on acting out to solve a problem and/or drawing a picture. Using the math workshop approach, our focus this week will be on: ordinal numbers, patterns, and sets to 10.

Science: Light and Heat give us energy!

   

Social Studies:  Map Skills and Fall Traditions

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·       Tuesday: Make a list of F and D words   

·       Wednesday: Write a simple sentence using and and to.  Do you have a capital and a period?  

·       Thursday:  Visit www.raz-kids.com

·       Friday: Read your home reader this weekend.  Return your book bag and your library book/reading log on Monday!

Pumpkin Math

Today we made pumpkins in math and graphed how many shapes we used making the face.  

The Bald Eagle

This week in Social Studies we learned about the bald eagle.  We made one and wrote about what we know as a class.  Tomorrow we will learn about Mount Rushmore.  

A Fun Way to Practice Letter Sounds

"The Letter H Song" by ABCmouse.com

"The Letter C Song" by ABCmouse.com

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Important Dates:

Oct. 14- Our Field Trip to Dewberry Farm…details to come!

Oct. 16- Fall Festival!

Oct. 29- Book Character Parade J

This week we will explore the following:

Theme: We will continue with Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales

Reading:  We will continue to explore the wonderful world of nursery rhymes and fairy tales.  We will identify rhyming words, characters and setting.  We will also sequence and retell, which are two very important reading skills!

Writing:  This week we will make literacy connections to nursery rhymes and fairy while using these familiar texts as a basis for our own individual book making/writing!

Word Wall Words: 

REVIEW: is, my, like, I, the, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black,

NEW WORDS FOR THE WEEK:  can,

see

Word Study: We will focus on the letter sounds of C and H.

Math: This week we will continue estimating and counting objects with one to one correspondence.  We will also work on counting/creating/identifying sets to 10.  We will count forwards and backwards to 20, as well as create number lines to 20.   

Science: We will continue to explore matter, focusing on how matter can change.

Social Studies:  US Symbols and what they mean to us.

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·       Monday:  Make a list of things that start with C & H

·       Tuesday: Take a handful of junk/tiny treasures.  Sort them into sets and describe how you sorted to mom or dad.

·       Wednesday: Write a simple sentence using can and see.  Do you have a capital and a period? 

·       Thursday:  Pick a US Symbol.  Tell Mom or Dad what it means.  Why is it important to us?

·       Friday: Bring back your library books, reading log, and home reader bag!  Remember there is no school on Monday!