Upcoming Dates
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter H
* Sunday, November 8th: November Scholastic Books Due
Please try to order your books online. Our class earns free books with online purchases. Thank you!
1. Go to: www.scholastic.com/bookclubs
2. Class User Name: Beebear
3. Password: MrsYu (no spaces or periods)
4. Browse books and place order using your credit card (no need to send money to school)
5. About 2 weeks after I receive all the orders, your books will be delivered to school!
* Monday, November 9th: Turkey Feathers Due
On Monday, you received a large posterboard with a drawing of a large feather. Please read the directions that were attached to the posterboard and decorate the feather as a family project. Please do not use any food! You may use any other types of material – try to be creative! We will combine all the feathers and attach them to our class turkey bulletin board for Thanksgiving! Please return them by Monday, November 9th. Thank you!
* Wednesday, November 11th: NO SCHOOL – Veterans Day
This is a strange day off in the middle of the week! Mark your calendars! If you are a Wednesday sharer, please share on Tuesday or Thursday next week!
* Wednesday, November 25th to Friday, November 27th: NO SCHOOL
Have a wonderful five-day weekend to celebrate Thanksgiving. Gobble gobble!
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Dear Families,
I’ve been updating the website every week with our weekly newsletters, random thoughts, computer lab classwork, and photos. If you haven’t been already, please take a look at our website from time to time and check out our latest news! I added “Photos” from our classroom from the month of October, as well as “Classwork” from our letter dictionaries and computer lab projects. Star of the Week is also updated weekly under “Classwork.” Enjoy!
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts:
o Star of the Week: Edison
o Letter of the Week: N
o Story of the Week: Lunch
o Phonemic Awareness: Blending and Segmenting Letters, Rhymes
o Strategy Focus: Evaluate, Summarize
o Comprehension: Story Structure: Characters / Setting, Drawing Conclusions
o High-Frequency Word: my, like
o Concepts of Print: Capitalize First Word in Sentence, End Punctuation, Return Sweep
• Writing: In our journals this week, we wrote about things we like in our classroom. We used the high-frequency words we have been learning to help us write our sentences, and we made sure to have good capital letters, spaces, and punctuation in our sentences. This week, we also did a writing activity from a turkey’s point of view. We described ourselves as turkeys and wrote our names, our age, what we liked to eat, play, and the colors of our feathers. Afterwards, we illustrated our turkeys!
• Science: We have been continuing to talk about the seasons. We used fall colors to make a pattern around our November quilt squares. We also are learning about trees and how the trees and leaves are changing.
• Math: We are continuing to work on our numbers from 0 to 5. We reviewed the terms: more than, less than, and equal, and also made ABCD patterns for our quilt squares.
• Computer Lab: We started our November Kidpix pictures this week by learning a poem called, “Here is a Turkey.” Today we worked on the first part of our picture by making the turkey. We talked about the details we have to add to a turkey’s body and a turkey’s face, and we made rainbow feathers.
• Social Studies: During the month of November, we are talking about the meaning of Thanksgiving. We read a story called, “Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks.” It gave different examples of things we should be thankful for everyday. This week, we each took turns to share something that we are thankful for in our lives. We talked about how we take certain things for granted, such as that one day where we had no power at school! We learned how we are actually very lucky to have the simple things in life!
• Assembly: We had an assembly today by the Zun Zun Presenters. They celebrate the environment and culture through music. The topic for today was “Watershed Watch” and we learned about how polluted water is traveling through our drains and to the Bay.
• Library: Remember to turn in your Homework folders every Friday with the library book and journal inside! Students cannot check out a new book if they did not bring their old books back! Thank you!
• Art: We have been reading many stories about scarecrows this week. We took a picture making our scariest face, and then we made our own scarecrows using wallpaper and newspaper. These turned out great!
We are trying to improve our Traffic situation in the Suisun Bus Circle due to a recent accident in our community. All parents need to either park their cars on the street and walk their child on the sidewalk, or drop off your child in the bus circle. If you are walking, please use the sidewalk and do not cross through the middle of the parking lot. If you are driving, please do not leave a parked car or leave your car unattended in the bus circle at any time (this is specifically for AM kids who get picked up at 12:20pm). If you have a child that gets picked up by an after-school program, please pass along this message as well. They cannot park their car in the bus circle because it stops the flow of traffic. Thank you for your help!
Have a wonderful weekend!
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