A Peek at the Week! October 31st

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Important Dates and Information:

October 31st- Students can wear Halloween accessories to school with their PE uniform (bracelet, socks,  necklace, headband or hair tie) No costumes or masks.

November 4th- Early Dismissal 12:00

Thanksgiving Prayer Service is Nov. 15 at 1:30 in the church.  All are invited.  Students will wear their Sunday best-no shorts, jeans, or flip flops.  Every student will have a part in the Prayer Service.  If you know ahead of time that your child will not be present that day please let us know ASAP.

I’ve updated my school links to make it easier to get to our Journeys weekly reader and resources without having to log into Think Central. I’ve also added spelling city to practice our weekly spelling words.
Looking forward to a wonderful week!Language Arts:

Journeys weekly story: Dr. Seuss

Spelling: Short o vowel sound     Phonics: S-Blends    Grammar: singular & plural nouns   Vocabulary: Antonyms

Words:  yes, let, red, ten, bed, get, Meg, fed, beg, led

High Frequency Words/Sight Words:

after, read, draw, was, pictures, write

Math:  Lessons 43-46

Lesson 43:  Counting by 10’s to 100

Lesson 44:  Subtraction Facts: Subtracting 1

Lesson 45.1:  Subtraction Facts: Subtracting 1

Lesson 45.2:  Written Assessment 8

Lesson 46: Counting dimes

Religion:

We will  continue Chapter 4 in our Religion books and celebrate All Saints Day Mass

Science/Social Studies: We will finish our study about pumpkins and learn about Election Day

Enrichment: No enrichment this week due to early dismissal on Friday

Homework:

Homework packet is due on Friday!

Reading: Read your book in your book buddy bag. Complete Reading Log

Workbook pages will come home in the binder on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Math: written practice is sent home nightly, except for days we complete an assessment. Please complete side B and return the next day.

Looking Ahead to October 24th

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Important Dates and Information:

Scholastic Book Orders are due by Tuesday, Oct. 25th

I’ve updated my school links to make it easier to get to our Journeys weekly reader and resources without having to log into Think Central. I’ve also added spelling city to practice our weekly spelling words.
Looking forward to a wonderful week!

Language Arts:

Journeys weekly story: A Musical Day

Spelling: Short o vowel sound     Phonics: L-Blends    Grammar: statements

Words: on, got, fox, pop, not, hop, tot, mop, box, dot

High Frequency Words/Sight Words:

her, she, now, today, our, would

Math:  Lessons 39-42

Lesson 39:  Weighing objects using nonstandard units

Lesson 40-1:  Finding a sum by counting on

Lesson 40.2:  Written Assessment 7

Lesson 41:  Addition Facts: Adding 0

Lesson 42: Covering a design in different ways

Religion:

We will  continue Chapter 4 in our Religion books

Science/Social Studies: We will finish up our study on bats and learn about the life cycle of a pumpkin

Enrichment: Discuss and label parts of a pumpkin, carve our classroom pumpkin and estimate and count the seeds

Homework:

Homework packet is due on Friday!

Reading: Read your book in your book buddy bag. Complete Reading Log

Workbook pages will come home in the binder on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Math: written practice is sent home nightly, except for days we complete an assessment. Please complete side B and return the next day.

Looking Ahead to October 17th!

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Important Dates:

Hurricane Make Up Day is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 17.

Pep Rally is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 21st * Students may wear jeans or PE shorts with a gold/blue shirt

Looking forward to a wonderful week!

Language Arts:

Journeys weekly story: How Animals Communicate

Spelling: Short i vowel sound     Phonics: R-Blends    Grammar: commas in a series

Words: pick, in, will, did, sit, six, big, dill, rig, pig

High Frequency Words/Sight Words:

animal, how, of, some, make , why

Math:  Lessons 35.1- 38

Lesson 35-1:  Identifying morning, afternoon, evening and night

Lesson 35-2:  Estimating and measuring length using nonstandard units, written assessment 2

Lesson 36:  Addition Facts: Adding 1

Lesson 37:  Addition Facts: Adding 1

Lesson 38: Sorting items and create a graph

Religion:

We will  continue Chapter 4 in our Religion books

Science/Social Studies: We will continue our study on the Five Senses and learn about spiders/bats

Enrichment: No enrichment on Friday due to the pep rally

Homework:

Homework packet is due on Friday!

Reading: Read your book in your book buddy bag. Complete Reading Log

Workbook pages will come home in the binder on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Math: written practice is sent home nightly, except for days we complete an assessment. Please complete side B and return the next day.

A Peek at the Week! October 10th

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This week we will continue our story in our Journeys reading series from last week. I will continue to send the book buddy bag home nightly. Please return the book buddy bag daily. This week we will also attend mass on Thursday for The Living Rosary and the pep rally will be rescheduled.

Important Dates:

Wednesday, October 12th will be the last day to turn in Cow Chip Bingo tickets

Living Rosary is on Thursday, Oct. 13th at 1:45

Hurricane Make Up Day is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 17.

Harvest Festival is on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 5-8 p.m

Looking forward to a wonderful week!

Language Arts:

Journeys weekly story:  Jack and the Wolf

Spelling: Short a vowel sound

Words: an, bad,can, had, cat, ran, mat, sad, pan, pat

High Frequency Words/Sight Words:

away, every, call, hear, come, said

Math:  Lessons 30.2-34 

Lesson 30.2:  Written Assessment 5

Lesson 31:  Covering a design with pattern blocks

Lesson 32:  Ordering numbers to 20

Lesson 33: Writing number sentences for some, some more, some, some went away, creating subtraction problem solutions

Lesson 34: Counting backward from 10-1, adding 1 to a number

Religion:

We will  start Chapter 4 and will go to mass on Thursday for The Living Rosary

Science/Social Studies: We will continue our study on the Five Senses and learn about Christopher Columbus

Enrichment: 5 senses activities

Homework:

Homework packet will continue from last week. Please turn in on Friday!

Reading: Read your book in your book buddy bag. Complete Reading Log

Practice reading the weekly story: Jack and the Wolf

Spelling Words: practice writing your spelling words nightly and reading high frequency words

Reading/Spelling Homework needs to be returned every Friday.

Math: written practice is sent home nightly, except for days we complete an assessment. Please complete side B and return the next day.

Journey’s Reader Notebook: a spelling page will come home every Tuesday and Thursday

Reminders: Please return the book buddy bag nightly and return the Thursday folder back to school every Friday!

Looking Ahead to October 3rd

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This week we will start Unit 2 in our Journeys Reading series. I will continue to send the book buddy bag home nightly. Please return the book buddy bag daily. This week we will also attend mass on Thursday for The Living Rosary and enjoy a pep rally Friday afternoon. The students are also enjoying the snacks that were donated in the beginning of the year:) We are starting to run low, so if you’re interested please feel free to donate a healthy snack to our classroom (pretzels, goldfish, animal crackers, etc…). Thanks so much for all your donations and support. Looking forward to a wonderful week!

Language Arts:

Journeys weekly story:  Jack and the Wolf

Spelling: Short a vowel sound

Words: an, bad,can, had, cat, ran, mat, sad, pan, pat

High Frequency Words/Sight Words:

away, every, call, hear, come, said

  • Please make sure your child is practicing reading the sight words throughout the week. They have to be able to read each word in isolation as well as in a sentence.

Math:  Lessons 29-32

Lesson 29:  Identifying lighter and heavier using  a balance scale

Lesson 30.1: Addition facts: Doubles with sums to 18

Lesson 30.2:  Written Assessment 5

Lesson 31:  Covering a design with pattern blocks

Lesson 32:  Ordering numbers to 20

Religion:

We will continue Chapter 3 and will go to mass on Thursday for The Living Rosary

Science/Social Studies: We will finish our study on maps and start our study on the Five Senses

Enrichment: No enrichment this week due to the pep rally on Friday.

Homework:

Homework packet came home last Thursday in the Thursday folder.

Reading: Read your book in your book buddy bag. Complete Reading Log

Practice reading the weekly story: Jack and the Wolf

Spelling Words: practice writing your spelling words nightly and reading high frequency words

Reading/Spelling Homework needs to be returned every Friday.

Math: written practice is sent home nightly, except for days we complete an assessment. Please complete side B and return the next day.

Journey’s Reader Notebook: a spelling page will come home every Tuesday and Thursday

Reminders: Please return the book buddy bag nightly and return the Thursday folder back to school every Friday!