Dear Families,
I hope this week went well with the substitute. I am sad to have missed the Halloween parade and party today. I asked the substitute to take lots of pictures, so hopefully I will get to see all of the cute costumes!
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts: We had our literacy centers on Tuesday this week, and our letter of the week was B. You can see our computer center illustrations for the letter B in our website, under “Classwork.” The story of the week was called The Spooky Wheels on The Bus. We hand fun singing to this song, which is similar to “The Wheels on the Bus.” We also read and colored a mini book called, “Orange Pumpkin, What Do You See?”
• Social Studies: Congratulations to Sainik, who was chosen as our eighth Star of the Week! You can read about him in the “Classwork” section of our website, and click under “Star of the Week.”
• Math: This week’s chapter was all about the numbers from 1-3. We practiced writing and counting objects. Please remember to start on the top line when we write numbers and letters. We usually write from top to bottom, left to right. These are skills that help overall when we are reading books. Also, we practiced reading picture graphs and answering questions about graphs, such as, which set has more animals? Which set has less animals? In addition, we practiced making our own graphs and collecting our own data.
• Computer Lab: We had exploration time this week on the website, www.starfall.com. This is a website that I recommended during Back to School night. This week we read some of the holiday stories, including “Pumpkin,” and also read different alphabet books.
• Red Ribbon Week: This week we celebrated red ribbon week and the theme was, “Making Healthy Choices.” Red ribbon week is about educating children to stay healthy be eating well, exercising, and staying away from negative influences such as drugs, alcohol, or smoking. For the Kindergarteners, we focus on healthy eating and how we can take care of our bodies. We made a poster about our healthy choices and also the PTO organized little activities for us to do each day this week!
• Art: This week we saw Mrs. Abada on Thursday and she read a story about Shapes to us. Then we made prints using foam shapes and paint.
• Assembly: Today we had a presentation by the Wildlife Associates. They always bring in real animals that have been injured and need extra care. They teach us lots of great facts about the animals. Ask your child about today’s assembly!
• Halloween Party: Today the students drew a self portrait of themselves in their costumes and the substitute also took individual photos of the students! In the afternoon, we had our snack and then met our fourth grade buddies for the school parade. Afterwards, we made Halloween necklaces!
Thank you for many of you who have been asking about my twin nieces. It’s actually been a tough 2 weeks for my family. My sister started getting an on-and-off fever 2 weeks ago, and she ended up going to the ER last Friday for extremely high white blood count and extremely low blood pressure. They discovered that she had some complications from her C-section 4 weeks ago, and had to get 2 surgeries done last Saturday. After that, her fever still continued to exist and her white blood count continued to rise. So she is still in the hospital this week, and they are trying to give her all sorts of antibiotics to fight the infection. Since she and my brother-in-law have been in the hospital, my mom and I have been on full-time duty taking care of the twins. They are doing great and have gained almost 2 pounds in the last month, but I am just worried for my sister. Please send some positive thoughts and prayers for my sister’s health… thank you.
Have a safe time trick-or-treating on Sunday. Happy Halloween!
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