There is going to be a lot of excitement this week with
Halloween around the corner! We will be having a Harvest Party on Friday,
October 30th. The children are allowed to wear their costume or part of their
costume during the party. Please have your child bring their costume to school
in a bag marked with their name. Due to the large amount of children who will
be changing, we won't be able to allow the kids to change in the restroom, so
they will need something that can fit over their clothes. There is a school
policy that the kids can't wear masks, face paint, or bring anything that
resembles a weapon. Thank you for your help with this!
Here's a look at what we will be doing in the classroom this
week.
During our reading groups, we will be focusing on the skill
of inferencing and supporting ideas with evidence from the text. This is a
skill that we will be continuing throughout the year with increasing
independence. This week's discussions will involve a lot of teacher modeling of
what it sounds and looks like to infer.
Our writing blocks this week will focus on revising the
personal narrative stories the students wrote last week. Our focus will be on
developing good story leads (first sentence or two of their story) and adding
and changing parts of their stories to make them more clear/descriptive. We
plan to end the week doing some partner sharing of their stories!
The kids will be excited to see the "Work on
Writing" choices for Daily Five. They will have several exciting choices
based on Halloween.
In math, we will begin the week taking the Unit 2 Assessment
and a Cumulative Assessment on Monday and Tuesday. Then we will begin Unit 3 on
Wednesday focusing on more addition fact strategies.
We will also continue our Apple Economics unit this week.
The students will be reading a book titled "From Shoot to Apple" and
will complete a graphic organizer summarizing the important points. We will
also continue to discuss vocabulary (producer, consumer, goods, services,
economics, and community) through various economics plays that the students
will be performing.
I hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween!!!
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