October 21st Newsletter

Important Dates
October

21 – Family Halloween Party at Ide 6:30-8:00
21 – Progress Reports Go Home
27 – Early Dismissal – 12:00

28 - Spooky Story Day
31- Classroom Halloween Parties

November
8 - Picture Retakes
11 – Veteran's Day – No School

On Friday, October 28th, we are having Spooky Story Day as a part of our reading rewards. Have your child wear all black that day and bring a Halloween book from home to share. If you don't have one at home, I have extras that the children may use.

Halloween Party & Parade
Please come and watch our parade. It will be outside (weather permitting) in the back of the school. We will begin at 1:40 on Monday, Oct. 31st and will parade outside beginning in front of the school and will circle around to the back of the school. We will then return to our classrooms for our party. The students should bring their costumes to school. We will help them get dressed prior to the parade. Since the students will have a treat and a drink at the party, no additional candy treats are necessary.

Author of the Month
Our “author of the month” for October is Lois Ehlert. This week we read Color Zoo and Color Farm. We made our own colorful animals using a shape template and markers. The children then wrote a couple of sentences to tell about their animals. They did a nice job!

Reading
During the week of October 24th we will be reading stories about bugs. In Quit It, Bug! , two children try to have a picnic on a log and a bug wants to go to his home in that log. In A Surprise for Zig Bug, some bugs think they are swimming in a pool, but it is really a jug. We also have a Science Link story called Insects.

Comprehension
- summarizing and story structure

Vocabulary
The vocabulary words are:
are, away, does, he, live, pull, they, where, quit, up, zig, zag, bug, & jug

Phonics
The sound of /qu”/
blending words with the CV and CVC pattern.
review the short “e” sound also.

Grammar
We will focus on using proper nouns.

Spelling
Our test will be on Friday, October 28th for the following words:
on, but, plum, quick, quiz, queen, squid, to do, & squirrel