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Upcoming Dates

* Monday, October 15th to Tuesday, October 16th: Parent Conferences
We have two more days of conferences. DISMISSAL IS AT 1:30PM! Thank you for coming this past week to talk about your child’s progress!

* Wednesday, October 17th: Book Orders Due
Attached is the October Scholastic Book Orders. If you are interested in purchasing books, please return the order forms with ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs by Wednesday. The books should arrive by the end of the month.

* Friday, October 19th: Walk-a-Thon 1:30-3:05pm
If you did not turn in your pledge form, please do so on MONDAY. Even if you did not collect pledges, you need to sign the envelope in order to give your child permission to participate! Parents may come and watch or volunteer during the event. However, please make sure you encourage your child to keep walking to raise money for the school. You may not pull your child out to feed them with extra snacks. There will be plenty of water available for them to get themselves.

* Wednesday, October 31st: Halloween
We will be having our Halloween parade after lunch on Wednesday. Please send your child’s costume to school in their backpack and they will change after lunch. More information will come later.


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Dear Families,

Thank you for coming to parent conferences this week. I will be sending home copies of our conference notes in the Friday folder. Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Our World
Song of the Week: Hello Around the World
Story of the Week: Here Are My Hands
Kindness is … drawing a picture for someone
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 2
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something liquid (4 clues and bring the
object or picture hidden in a bag)

• Language Arts: We finished our last Prince this week! Remember to read about our classmates on our website under “Classwork.” This week we started our language arts textbooks and will be focusing on specific stories, sounds, and skills each week. We also will be having high frequency words added to our word wall each week. I expect students to be able to read and spell these words correctly in their writing.
o Theme 1: All Together Now – Week 1
o Story Selection: The Cat Sat and The Mat
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Predict/Infer and Sequence
o High Frequency Words: go, the, on
o Word Families: -at
o Phonemic Awareness: blending
o Sounds: m, s, c, t, short a
o Grammar: Capital and lowercase letters

• Math: We are continuing in Chapter 3 with more addition and subtraction facts up to 12. Here are some of our “magic words” to help us with word problems: (+) in all, altogether, join (-) how many more, left, still, away

• Computer Lab: We had a short session this week because of our parent conference schedule. We drew pictures for someone special as part of our Kindness Journal activity for the week.

• Science: We did not have science circuits Tuesday because of the parent conference schedule, however, we spent time observing our mealworms this week in class. We saw one of our mealworms change into the final adult stage! Ask your children what they mealworms turn into!

• Assembly: We had a first grade assembly today called “Otto the Auto.”

• PE: This week we had Mrs. Burgess and she taught us some skills with hula hoops. Also we played a game called Dead Bug tag.

• Art: Thank you to those of you who donated the plastic lids for our art teacher. We saw Mrs. Blakeslee this week and we finished our paintings on abstract lines and shapes using paint.

Don’t forget next Friday is the Walk-a-Thon! It will be lots of fun! We made a poster this week to represent our classroom, and we decorated shoes. On the shoes were shoelaces, and I discovered that MOST of our students do not know how to tie their shoes! Please teach them this skill when you get the chance! I taught them the two bunny ears method, but you can definitely use whichever method is easiest for your child!

Have a wonderful weekend! Rain, rain, go away!