Important
Dates
October
26 – Family Halloween
Party at Ide
29 – Conferences 3:45-6:00
30 – Conferences 3:45-7:00
31-
Classroom Halloween Parties
1:40 – Parade, 2:00 – Party
November
5 – No School
6 – Teacher’s Institute – No School
8 – Picture Retakes
12 – No School – Veteran's Day
21, 22, & 23 – No School –
Thanksgiving Break
Jr. Achievement
Our class just started the Jr. Achievement program
last week. This program will last for 5
weeks and will cover the following topics:
families, needs & wants, jobs, and paying for needs &
wants. Our presenter is Ms. Redlin, a
volunteer from the Turtle Wax Corporation.
She will come into our classroom once a week for 30 minutes to teach
each lesson. These lessons coordinate
with our social studies curriculum.
Sean will be our “student of the week” for the week of Oct. 29 – Nov. 2.
Reading
We will be reading four stories. Pearl's First Prize Plant
which is about a little girl who plants a seed and watches it grow. Our other stories, Ham and Eggs, Miss
Jill's Ice Cream Shop, and Making Ice Cream are about things we like to eat.
Comprehension Strategies
We will focus on making predictions
and inferences and how to read a social studies article.
Vocabulary Words
Our vocabulary words for the week are:
all, call, eat,
every, first, never, paper, shall, and
why.
Phonics Skills
We will review blending short vowel
sounds, double consonants, plurals, final consonants ck, s as (z), and
verb endings s, ed, & ing.
Grammar Lesson
We will be working on when to use “a”
or “an.”
Spelling Words
Our spelling words
for the week of October 29th are: up, man, crab,
off, cliff, stiff, cuff, come, some, stuffing
