***Please wear Patriotic colors this Thursday, Nov. 7th
and next Monday,
Nov. 11th to honor our Veterans***
***BOOK FAIR this
Wednesday through Friday***
We welcomed Halloween with open arms and had a
fantastic time celebrating! Now, our
thoughts focus on being thankful and embracing this wonderful time of year.
Writing
We have been working on Informational writing,
beginning with “How To” books. We are
experts at many things, so we’re excited to continue writing “All About” books
revolving around topics we know well, as well as topics which we will research. (Many of us have been doing this already
during our extension block as a special interest!)
Reading
Our reading also takes us to non-fiction
topics. We continue working on
strategies for tricky words, but we’re also paying attention to non-fiction
features and how we can learn so much more than we imagined by really paying
close attention!
Math
2-D and 3-D shapes have been our recent focus,
and we’ve made some cool creations with pattern blocks (geoblocks). We’re also adding to our vocabulary, as we
learn about quadrilaterals, measuring the area of a rectangle (by pretending
it’s a chocolate bar!), the difference between rows and columns, and much
more! We are moving on to more
sophisticated work and explaining our thinking with adding “strings” of
numbers, breaking apart bigger numbers to add and subtract, and using real-life
story problems to help us understand and think through these concepts.
Social
Studies, Science,
and
other News
We have begun our Time for Kids issues and love
learning about some important current events (and ways to understand magazines
and other non-fiction text.)
Our
recent science enrichment program was fantastic, with many experiments with
force and motion. We learn more about
composting soon! Spanish is also muy bien! There’s so much going on!
NOVEMBER
BIRTHDAYS
Wed,
Nov. 20: Gregory Garabet
Fri.,
Nov. 22: Bo Vrooman
Sat.,
Nov. 30: Sofia Schimmeck
REMINDERS
Tues., Nov. 5:
Election Day,
No School for
Students; Staff Dev.
Wed. – Fri., Nov. 6-8: Book Fair
Thurs., Nov. 7:
Veterans Day Program
Fri., Nov. 15:
Scholastic Orders due (just in case you didn’t find anything at the Book
Fair!)
Wed., Nov. 27: Progress
Reports Home; Early Dismissal
Thurs. – Fri., Nov. 28 – 29: Thanksgiving Break, no school
SPECIAL
NOTES
- Thank you, Everyone,
for participating in Fall for Math last month!
- Thank you for helping
with the Soldier Care Packages, Unicef collection, and Unicef Boograms!
·
Thank you, Families, for your help in making
our Halloween celebration a success!
- Continued
thanks to our Room Moms, Jane Glassmeyer and Elizabeth Svedlund!
- Continued
thanks to all volunteers and for all the work you do with your children at
home!
- Scholastic
Book Clubs: There are many other wonderful book choices listed in
specialty catalogs, in addition to the usual 2 or 3 catalogs which are
sent home in the children’s school mail.
If any catalogs for which you are searching do not appear as the
top recommended, they are still available by selecting the “Shop By Flyer”
option at the top of the Parent’s page next to your child’s name. (For example, if you’d like to order an
older catalog, you can still do so.)
- Dreambox
Info is attached from Central Office
