week of Oct. 21, 2019

Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (week of October 21, 2019)

Handwriting:  We will be moving onto the rest of the vowels: u, I, e and letters k, y, j, are familiar from the capital letters.  We will be focusing on careful line placement and size.  We are also going to work on our numbers 7-10 to coincide with our Math Unit.

Math:  We have been working with our numbers to 10.  Our writing numbers 1-6 has really improved this past week and we will be working on numbers 7-10 shortly.  We also talked about a number line and what number comes before and after a given number.  That is going hand in hand with our Spring Math skill of Missing Number.  We are working on numbers 0-11 and are given a set of 3 numbers, but one is missing and we have to write in the missing number.  Here is an example:

3 ___ 5 (the students would write 4)

Reading:  We will be starting a brand new Unit, Unit 2, “Living Together” and our unit essential question is “What do living things need?”.  We have been talking about what plants need to thrive (sun, water, soil) when talking about our apple trees and pumpkin patches.  We will now be looking at animals as well.  We will be finding out why some animals eat, move, and live like they do.  We have been exposed to informational text in our everyday read alouds as well as our past reading unit, but we will have many more this unit. 

Science/Social Studies:  We have been talking about Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins!!!  We talked about how they grow, what they look and feel like, what you can do with a pumpkin, and the parts of a pumpkin.  We will also be exploring some bats and spiders leading up to Halloween.  We have been practicing our “thinking eyes” which means we are looking at the person talking or focusing on the task at hand and reinforcing our “Whole Body Listening”.

Reminders:

Party Money is due as soon as possible, thank you!

Please check the folders for important information regarding Halloween and Red Ribbon Week, thank you!

Important Dates:

Week of October 21- Red Ribbon Week (see handout for activities)

Monday, October 21- Day 7