Mid-October News

Upcoming Dates

* Thursday, October 26th: Picture Day
Picture envelopes will be coming home next Wednesday. Please return them Thursday morning if you are interested in purchasing Fall pictures.

* Sunday, October 29th: Daylight Savings Time
Change your clocks one hour back!

* Tuesday, October 31st: Halloween
Send your child’s Halloween costume to school in a bag. Students will change after lunch and we will have the school parade at 1:30pm. Parents are welcome to attend the parade or help children change at 1:15pm.

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Dear Families,

Thank you to all the volunteers who went to Happy Hollow with us today! We are lucky to have so many parents supporting our class activities and field trips.

Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: First Book
Song of the Week: Vowels
Kindness is … using good manners.
Story of the Week: The Earth and I
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 3
Word Wall Words: father, here, jump, mother, not, too
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular Sharing – Halloween decorations
(4 complete sentences and bring decoration to show).

• Language Arts: Theme 1 All Together Now – Week 2
• Stories: Nan and Fan and We Can!
• Word Families: –an (can, fan, ran, man, tan, etc)
• Sounds: n, f, p, and short a
• Grammar: beginning sentences with capital letters.

• Math: We finished Chapter 3 this week on addition and subtraction facts up to 12. Also, we worked more on fact families during computer lab this week. We have been reviewing math vocabulary such as: addition, subtraction, addends, sum, double facts, difference, and more/less. We also started Chapter 4 on data and graphing. This chapter will require students to make graphs and answer word problems about them.

• Writing: Our kindness journals this week were on using good manners. We talked about appropriate times to say kind words such as, “Good morning,” “Please,” “Excuse Me,” “Sorry,” “You’re welcome,” etc. We also wrote an acrostic poem about Witches together.

• Art: We finished our Mexican paintings and started drawing pictures of flowers this week with Mrs. Blakeslee. We looked at real flowers and learned how to draw petals using pointillism (many little dots).

• Music: This week we celebrated with some Halloween songs such as black cats, Frankenstein, and played a monster game too. We also used many different instruments this week including drums, maracas, and triangles, to sing our songs.

• Science: We continued our science unit this week by learning about solids and mixtures – or solids mixed together. We learned that we can separate mixtures using screens. We also started observing different properties of liquids such as: transparent, translucent, colored, viscous, foamy, and bubbly.

• PE: This week we worked on small ball skills such as throwing and catching with Mrs. Bachelor.

• Social Studies: This week we had circuits with Mrs. Barelli. We talked about where we live and our place in the Earth including our home, our school, our city, our country, and our continent.

In today’s Friday Folder, you will find the parent conference notes we discussed. Also, on Monday we will be adding a new student to our class. His name is Jonathan and he came from the Evergreen School District. Please welcome him and his family to Eaton! Enjoy your weekend!