week of October 28, 2019

Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (week of October 28, 2019)

Handwriting:  We will continue with letters k, y, j, that are familiar from the capital letters.  We will be focusing on careful line placement and size. We are trying to keep our letters with the middle line and bottom line (unless they have a line that goes above or below the lines) so that we practice staying within a boundary. We have also been writing single words in our Handwriting book after every couple of lessons to reinforce the taught letters. 

Math:  We are moving into our next unit, Unit 2, numbers 11-20.  We will be working on: counting, cardinality, subitizing, number sense, write/represent numbers, and composing/decomposing numbers.  We have been practicing our teens when we do the calendar and when we were counting our days of school as well. We are still working on missing numbers in our Spring Math skill.  We have been practicing with a number line for what comes before and what comes after a number as well as practicing our number writing.

Reading:  We will be reading more informational text and making connections to our own experiences or other books.  We have been talking about what we know about different living things. We have been talking about main ideas and supporting details as well as asking and answering questions.  We are also working on initial, medial, and final sounds in words.  We have been practicing every letter and every sound as well.

Science/Social Studies:  We have done a science spin on nocturnal animals.  We briefly learned about them when reading our back to school book, “The Kissing Hand”.  We are also going to have some fun Halloween books next week and have been so lucky to work on some Halloween centers to improve our fine motor skills.

Reminders:

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

Please remember to practice your sight words each night and read each night and log it on the sheet in the folder. 

Important Dates:

Monday, October 28- Day 4

Tuesday, October 29- End of the 1^st Marking Period

Trunk or Treat 6-7 om

Thursday, October 31- Fall Celebration (please refer to the note previously sent home for all of the guidelines)