Friday Note

FRIDAY NOTE (10/03/14)

Events of the Week:  It’s hard to believe, but October is here!  Our focus this week was on color review.  We focused on the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear.  We read and practiced retelling this story using our story wheels.  We also made our own “Brown Bear Reader” to add to our Independent Reading Boxes.  We did several color mixing activities this week.  Our sight word was “see”.  It popped up a lot as we were reading books this week! Our letters for the week were “Ff” and “Dd”.  Don’t forget to practice letter and sound identification at home with your child.  In math, we started a new math topic over numbers 1-5.  Please practice writing these numbers with your child at home.   

Important Dates:

·        Oct. 2 ~ Cox Care Mobile    

·        Oct. 13 ~ Fall Break-No School

·        Oct. 20-21 ~ Parent/Teacher Conferences

·        October 20-24 ~ School Bus Safety Week

·        October 22 ~ School Pictures

·        Oct. 27-31 ~ Red Ribbon Week

·         Oct. 31 - Halloween Party 11:45-12:30

Sight Words

Your child should be able to recognize these words within 3 seconds.  It is very important that you practice them at home with your child, as we will be adding new ones each week.   

I     the  a   like     is   my    see  

1st Quarter Assessments

Next week we will begin assessing over 1^st Quarter skills.  Some of the skills we will be assessing over are letter identification, sight words, counting to 25, measurement, sorting, and address, birthday and phone number.  If your child has already scored “Proficient” in an area, he/she will not be assessed over that skill again this quarter.  Please be sure to practice at home!

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Parent-Teacher conferences will be held October 20^th and 21^st.  All parents are expected to schedule a conference time.  You may sign-up online at: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/20F0D4AACAE2BA6F58-parentteacher/  (A link is also posted on our classroom blog).  I look forward to meeting with you. 

Halloween Party  Our Halloween Party will be October 31st.  We will begin changing into costumes at 11:30.  Parents are welcome to help at that time.  Parents may also start setting up for the party at this time.  At 11:45 we will parade through the school in our costumes.  The party will begin after the parade, at approximately 12:00 and last until 12:30.  Please remember to send your child’s costume to school that morning!  Do not bring it with you—you never know when you might be delayed unexpectedly. **Your child may opt out of lunch that day if you would like since we are having a snack at the party. *Special note about costumes—NO weapons of any kind allowed, please keep blood and gore to a minimum!

Box Top Challenge!!!  Box Top Challenge!!

Please turn in your Box Tops, Labels for Education, and your Best Choice labels.  The classroom with the most submissions by October 31^st will receive a classroom party!  Send them in with teacher name and grade and PTA will do the rest.

Thanks for the many that have been sent in already!!

Reading Challenge!

Don’t forget to be completing the reading challenge logs!  We have had four kids earn their home run sticker!  Way to go!! In order for your child to earn a home run sticker they must return all four reading logs by October 10^th. 

Next Week:

·       Our theme will be Fall.  We will learn about informational books.

·       We will begin 1^st quarter assessments.

·       In math, we will continue our unit on numbers 1-5.

·       Our sight word will be “it”.

·       Our letters for the week will be “Ll” and “Kk”. 

Have a Great Weekend!!

MRs. Wenger