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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