Tuesday, November 27, 2018

week of November 26, 2018


Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (Week of November 26)

Handwriting/Writing:  We will continue to work our way through the lowercase letter formations in order to start copying words, phrases, and sentences in our Handwriting book.  We recently reinforced the concept of staying in between the midline and the bottom line for most of the lowercase letters using our large chalkboards.  Everyone followed along and wrote their best lowercase letters!


Reading: Our new story is: Little Panda and it is non-fiction. We will be comparing and contrasting in this story.  Our amazing words are: weigh, measure, healthy, bamboo, curious, explore.  Our essential question for the story is: How does a panda change in its first year of life?


Math: We will continue our Unit 2, Numbers 11-20 and then move on to Unit 3, Comparing Numbers to 20.  We will work each day reviewing number formations, counting to 100, and working with our buddies in our Spring Math program.  We have also been counting by 10’s and reviewing ones and tens place when writing what day of school it is each day.


Science/Social Studies:  We will be reviewing hibernation in an upcoming Weekly Reader and then be moving into winter characteristics.  We will also be exploring various holidays in December. 



Important dates to remember:

November 26- No School

November 30- Community Involvement Night 7pm High School

Friday, November 9, 2018

week of November 12, 2018


Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (Week of November 12)
Handwriting/Writing:  We have been practicing many of the lowercase letters and they look wonderful.  We are working very hard on the carry over to when we are writing in small groups or writing on papers in centers.  We also did a writing for our bulletin board about what we are thankful for as we prepare for Thanksgiving.  Everyone stayed on topic and did a great job sounding out the words and writing the letters for the sounds that they made!

Reading: Our new story is: Jack and the Beanstalk and it is a fiction. We will be comparing real and make believe plants and talking more about realism vs fantasy.  Our amazing words are: beanstalk, lad, ogre, naughty, lend, magic.  We have a few versions of the story that we can compare and contrast to find the similarities and differences between all of them. 

Math: We have started Unit 2, numbers 11-20.  What we are covering in Unit 2 includes: counting, number sense, write and represent numbers, and putting together and taking apart numbers. We have been taking our time and working with 2 ten frames to make the teens.  We have also been working on our Math skills everyday using the Spring Math program.  We hope that you were able to read over the newsletter sent home this week about the program and if you have any questions about it, feel free to contact us. 

Science/Social Studies:  We have finally finished up our problem solving topic and the class did a great job working together to formulate a plan.  We also reviewed Cause/Effect and that is something that comes up in our Reading lessons a lot, so we will be talking about it throughout the school year. 

Important dates to remember:

November 12- No school for students

November 16- Spartan Dress Down Day ($1 donation)

***Please return the envelopes for the report cards as soon as possible after you have reviewed the report card and signed off on the envelope.

***North Schuylkill will be collecting non-perishable food items and monetary donations for the Feed-A-Friend program.  Donations will be accepted until November 13th.  We thank you for the support.

Monday, November 5, 2018

week of November 5, 2018


Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (Week of November 5)

Handwriting/Writing:  We have been working hard on writing letters that correspond with the sound given.  We have also introduced writing CVC words (consonant, vowel, consonant) like hat.  We also have been stressing that a sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with punctuation so we know when it stops.  We practiced the lowercase alphabet one time in our Handwriting books, but will wait until after we introduce all of the lowercase letters to send home a copy of that one.

Reading: Our new story is: A Bed for The Winter and it is a nonfiction story.  Our weekly essential question is: “What kind of home does an animal need?” We will also be sequencing the story.  Our amazing words are: nest, meadow, stump, tree trunk, hive, den.  We will be able to compare the animals in this story to the animals in last week’s story (Bear Snores On) and see how the animals are different in a fiction story vs. a nonfiction story and also see if there are any similarities. 

Math: We will continue our unit on 2D and 3D shapes.  We have identified and listed the features of plane shapes (triangle, square, rectangle, circle, oval, hexagon, rhombus, and trapezoid) and have moved on to finding 3D shapes in real life (cube, cone, sphere, cylinder, rectangular prism).  We will continue to work on our math skill practice of identifying a number (1-10) and drawing the correct number of circles in order to increase our fluency with this skill.

Science/Social Studies:  We will be problem solving in Science along with touching on November holidays of: Veteran’s Day and Thanksgiving.  We continually review citizenship in school with reinforcement of the SPARTY way. 

Important dates to remember:
November 4- ends Daylight Savings time, no shorts are allowed at NSE

November 5- NSE PTO Meeting, 6:30 pm

November 8- Report Cards sent home
***North Schuylkill will be collecting non-perishable food items and monetary donations for the Feed-A-Friend program.  Donations will be accepted until November 13th.  We thank you for the support.

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