week of October 2, 2017

Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter

Week of October 2, 2017

***In Math, we are working on Topic 15, Position and Location of Shapes.  Our new amazing words are: inside, outside, above, below, left, right.  At home, you can continue to practice all colors, shapes, sizes, sorting and grouping objects, and counting as high as you can, as well as numbers 0-10. 

***In Reading, our new story is: Smash, Crash and we will be discussing characters within the story.  Our new amazing word are: signals, proper, perfect, dud, pirates, fabulous.  At home, you can continue to practice all letters and sounds, rhyming pairs, and stretching out words to make all of the sounds (dog stretched to /d/ /o/ /g/).

Handwriting- We continue to go through the capital letters making them with the wood pieces, in the air, on the door with a flashlight, and with dry erase.  In your child’s folder is a guide for letter formations for the capital letters if you would like to practice them at home.  We remind the class to always start the letters at the top as well as hold the pencil correctly and to take their times with the strokes.

***Science and Social Studies- We have worked on Apples and Fall this past week.  We graphed apples according to color, made a graph of apple products, described apples, learned about Johnny Appleseed, used our 5 senses with apples, and did a writing activity with them.  We will be learning about the topic of Science in general and what it means to be a scientist. 

***AR book logs for September will be collected on Monday, October 2 and the new ones will be passed out that day.  Please remember that the goal is at least 15 books per month and there will be monthly incentives as well as prizes given out at the end of the school year for lots of reading done the entire school year.

***Fall Festival Information:  Please also send in the money for the fall festival as soon as possible so that we can purchase the supplies for the day.  We still need your help and participation with sending the money in for the festival, the committee is waiting on it.  Many thanks.

***Reminders:  Please continue to check folders each day and clean them out from that day’s papers and sign and return anything that is stamped.  Please also continue to review sight words and read each night.  If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.  Please also read over all of the new calendars that are coming home for the month of October.

Important Dates:

Monday, October 2- wear blue to prevent bullying, Day 4, NSE PTO meeting 6:30 pm

Thursday, October 5- Kindergarten Fall Festival

Monday, October 9- No School, Teacher In Service