Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Homework
1.  Read 

2.  Spelling - Quiz - Thursday
3.  Speaking - presentations tomorrow Danika, Julianna, Jordyn, Emma, Avalon,

                           and Hailey :-)

                           Don't forget to bring in your HOME READING logs on speaking days.  

4.  Scholastic Book Orders: due Tuesday, October 13

SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB

Each month, students have an option to purchase reasonably priced books through the Scholastic Book Club. This is an option that your family may choose to participate in.  If you have items that you wish to purchase as gifts, please let me know with your order.  I will be happy to make sure these items are passed directly to you.   Please make cheques payable to Scholastic Book Clubs.  Thank you!!

Oct. 21 & 22 - PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS & EARLY DISMISSAL 

October 21 and 22 afternoons. Sign-up boards are by the front office.  I look forward to meeting with you :-).  Please let me know if you need an alternate time to meet.  

WHAT ARE WE LEARNING?

Students have been working hard!  Some focus areas that we have been working on and will continue to work on in Core Learning areas include:

Reading: 

-3 ways to read a book

-picking 'just right' books

-building reading stamina 

-identifying genre:  non-fiction (fact/information books) vs fiction (stories)

- reading for comprehension (understanding and being able to summarize what we have read = retelling)

-text features:  author, illustrator, publication date, table of content & glossaries (non-fiction)

Writing:

-Proper Nouns - specific people, places, and things - please encourage your child to always use a capital for their first and last name

-Ideas - being able to pick and develop a narrow topic (one idea)

-Super Sentences - using adjectives to describe nouns and prepositional phrases - sentences tell: who, did what, where and when

Math:

-Counting On Strategies focusing on numbers 0-100 -  adding strategy

-Number Properties:  odd/even, tally marks, describing numbers

-Story/Word Problems with a specific focus on skills of  Logical Reasoning & Organized Lists

Thank you for supporting these skills at home whenever possible as well!!   :-)  

Reminders:
1.  Oct. 12 - No School - Thanksgiving

2.  Oct. 13 - Family Math Night - 6 pm

3.  Oct. 15 - Individual Photo Day 

                      Family Math Night -  6pm

4.  Oct. 16 - Hot Dog Day

5.  Oct. 19 - Assembly - all welcome :-)

6.  Oct. 21 & 22 - PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS & EARLY DISMISSAL 

7.  Oct. 21 - Family Math - 6 pm

8.  Oct. 22 - Halloween Family Dance

9.  Oct. 23 - No School - Teacher Professional Development Day

10. Oct. 28. - PAC Hot Lunch

Have a great week!