Monday, October 29, 2018

week of October 29, 2018


Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (Week of October 29)

Handwriting/Writing:  We also have finished all of our numbers to 10 and they look really gorgeous!  We will need those numbers when we start practicing the teens.  We are also sending home a clean copy of all of the capital letters so that they can be used as practice for at home.  When we get into more of the lowercase formations, we will send a copy of those home as well. Keep up the great work!

Reading: Our new story is: Bear Snores On and it is an animal fantasy story.  Our weekly essential question is: “What unique thing does a bear do in winter?” We will also be listening for setting along with comparing/contrasting realism vs. fantasy.  Our amazing words are: sleep, winter, cave, woods, storm, blustery.  ***Along with the weekly newsletter, we have enclosed an article on emerging writing from a site called “Reading Rockets”.  We hope that you found the one on phonemes useful and will keep our eye out for articles that pertain to early reading/writing skills.

Math: We will still be continuing our shape unit but we have moved onto our next math skill.  After practicing the skill of counting objects/pictures and finding the correct number (0-10) we are able to move on to drawing the correct number of circles ourselves (0-10) when given a number at random.  We will continue to sharpen our math skills with this daily practice and watch as we make progress each time.

Science/Social Studies:  We have been using our observation skills to compare the big carving pumpkin that we have in our room to the variety of tiny pumpkins and gourds.  We noticed the different sizes, shapes, and colors.  We will also be getting into problem solving in our next science topic that we will be starting.

Important dates to remember:

October 29 and October 30- continuation of Red Ribbon week (please see school calendar for more information)

October 31- Fall Celebration (please review the informational sheet about the costume guidelines as well as the parade information that was previously sent home.)

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