Week of 10/28-11/1

Good evening parents and guardians,

This week is going to be an exciting one! I have lots of things planned for the kiddos to do that still involve all their academic skills, BUT with a Halloween twist.

During morning routine this week we will be discussing pumpkins and learning about adjectives. We started the process today by uses our senses to describe a pumpkin. During language arts and math centers students will be working on a safety book, rolling the dice to color in the numbers on a spider and much more (including making a tens frame pumpkin!).

For Language Arts this week, we will be covering the unit 2, week 3 lesson:

• Story of week: "Animal Babies in Grasslands"

• Content Knowledge: Looking at Animals in the Grasslands
• Phonemic Awareness: Initial /p/
• Phonics: /p/ Spelled Pp
• Comprehension Skill: Main Idea
• Conventions: Adjectives for Colors
• Handwriting: P and p

** This week for language arts the students will also be taking their mid unit assessment, which consists of sight words and reading basic CVC words. These two skills the students will be tested on are reviewed daily, but should also be studied at home (this is also usually part of the home work)

This week in Math:

• Students will be tested on numbers 1-10
• We will begin Unit 4
• Working with numbers 1-10
• Recognizing these number is order
• Being able to count from 1-10 and 10-1

Science: 

• Finish up and test on Unit 3- Living and Non-living things

School announcements:

• Fall Carnival will be this Thursday, my class as well as the other Kindergarten classes will attend from 12:00-1:00 pm. I believe the PTO still needs help with many items, if you area able to donate anything, it would be greatly appreciated :)
• Book drive: This will be the last week for the book drive. The winning class will be reviving a Popsicle party! A graph has been set up in the gym to show each class' progress, for now we still don't have a pumpkin (since the graph begins at 25 and continues in 25 book increments)
• Family Friday: Why wait in line to get lunch on this day, when you can purchase a meal ticket ahead of time for just $5.00 from Charley's Grilled Subs (they are super yummy if I do say so myself). For $5.00 you will get a sandwich (Philly cheese steak or California Chicken) a drink and oreos. The proceeds from the sales will go to REACH, which can then be used for extracurricular activities, like field trips!! This is awesome, a great meal PLUS the money goes back to your child education and a chance to create more memories.

Before I sign off, I want to give a huge THANK YOU to one of my room parents, Latrese, for helping organize last weeks events during Red Ribbon Week. The kids enjoys everything as did I.

As always, if there is anything I may assist you in or if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me.

Have a great evening, 

Miss. Maciel

PS. Just one more thing, I have the BEST students and parents a first year teacher could ask for. 

This year so far has been amazing and definitely memorable, THANK YOU all from the bottom of my heart :)