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 13^th.  We thank you for the support.