News for the Week of November 5th

I hope you are all staying warm this weekend!  I am enjoying the colder weather and hope it sticks around for a while.  Thank you all so much for taking the time to work  with your child on the feather for our class turkey.  It looks fantastic!  I will post a picture of it on next week's blog.  Come and see it in our hallway near the library.  

In math this week, we worked on comparing numbers and sets of objects.  We made sets of objects for a given number and then we made other sets that were one more or two more.  We then worked on making sets of objects that were one fewer or two fewer.  The students caught on and did pretty well when working with me during guided math.  Knowing what number comes before and after a given number can be a difficult concept for some students to grasp at their age.  We will work with number lines a lot next week to help us order numbers and more easily see what numbers are fewer than or more than a given number.

In language arts, we read the poem, I Go, which focused on the sight word "go."  We wrote the word "go" several times, looked for rhyming words in our poem and then colored the illustrations.  We read a fun turkey book called, A Plump and Perky Turkey, by Teresa Bateman, and we brainstormed what we could eat for Thanksgiving besides turkey.  We then completed the sentence stem, "Save a turkey!  Eat more _______."  We made cute turkeys out of construction paper and they are hanging in our hallway now.  We then began a unit on informational/expository text.  The students helped to create a class chart comparing fiction and nonfiction.  We read nonfiction text about turkeys and learned a lot of new information.  We watched videos about turkeys and watched a slideshow.  We then labeled a picture of a turkey, wrote facts about turkeys, made a "can, have, are" chart about turkeys and drew a picture of something we learned about turkeys and added a caption.  We will finish our nonfiction work on turkeys this week.  We will then learn about the culture and traditions surrounding Thanksgiving and learn about the first Thanksgiving.   During our word study, we worked more with identifying beginning sounds of words and producing words that begin with particular sounds.  We continued our work in our handwriting book by forming the letters k, y and a few words.

In science, we continued to focus on patterns of movement and will review and take an assessment next week.  We will then begin a new science unit on rocks, soil and water.

The Monkeys enjoyed learning about our superstar student, Ethan!  We were able to learn all about his life and interests.

We look forward to learning all about our next superstar student, Victoria!

It's Book Fair time! Our book fair brings kids the books they want to read and raises funds for library programs such as author visits. Students will be bringing home wish lists Fri, Nov. 9,  and we will be open for shopping all next week. 

• To SHOP ONLINE, click here! Books will be sent to school and delivered to student (or if they are gifts, we can hold them in the library - contact the library to let us know:).
• To VOLUNTEER, click here!  We need you!

IN-LIBRARY shopping hours:

Monday, November 12 7:20 am – 3:30 pm
Tuesday, November 13 7:20 am – 5:45 pm (LATER HOURS)
Wednesday, November 14, 7:20 am – 3:30 pm
Thursday, November 15, 7:20 am – 4: 40 pm (LATER HOURS)
Friday, November 16, 7”20 – NOON (CLOSING EARLY)

Reminders

If you have not yet signed and returned the report card envelope, please do so and send it to school with your child.  You can keep the white report card inside of the envelope.  We only need the signed envelopes back.

Our Thanksgiving lunch is on Wednesday, November 14th at 11:00-11:30 in the cafeteria.  Please join your child for this special lunch if possible.  If you did not reserve a lunch for yourself on the rsvp forms that were sent home a while back, please feel free to bring a lunch for yourself.

Please join us for the Kindergarten Thanksgiving musical performance at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, November 16th in the cafeteria.  Make sure to arrive a bit early to sign in with a valid ID or driver's license and get a badge.  The kindergarten students and Mrs. Martin have been working very hard to prepare for their performance.  You may also view your child's artwork in the hallway near the cafeteria that they worked hard on in Mrs. Weir's art class.

Please be sure to check out the "Dates to Remember" below. 

Upcoming Dates to Remember: 

Nov. 12-16  Book Fair
Nov. 13       PTA Meeting, 5:45 p.m.
Nov. 14       Thanksgiving Lunch, 11 a.m. (for our class)
Nov. 16       Kindergarten Music Performance, 8 a.m.
Nov. 16       Kona Ice, after school
Nov. 19-23  Thanksgiving Break, NO SCHOOL
Nov. 28th    Coffee Chat, 7:45 a.m.
Nov. 29th    Picture Retakes
Dec. 5th     Bush's Spirit Night
Dec. 7th     Field Trip-Zach Scott Theater

Superstars & Birthdays:

Morris Superstar:

Victoria!

Morris November Birthdays:

None