Weekly Overview - Oct. 10-14

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ROOM 14....OCTOBER 10-14

Dear Parents:

Please send in the emergency food pack if you have not already done so. Please help your child to remember to bring in a special hat by tomorrow. We will keep the hats at school this week since we will be using them for a writing project.

LANGUAGE ARTS:

Phonograms:  We are learning 2 phonograms this week: ar and ck (2 letter "k"). There will be a quiz on Thursday. 

star   car     sharp     barn     farm     hard     park     dark     part

lock     stick     block   sick     pick     trick     chick     peck

Reading: We will review our three stories and then take our first Theme tests on Tuesday. Part 1 will be based on knowledge of vocabulary that has been sent home on Mondays. Part 2 will be based on your child’s comprehension of the stories that we have read and discussed from our reader. Part of our reading time will be spent on doing some descriptive writing using the special hat that your child has brought in. We will also read a story about a crabby cat and then respond in our journals with our own crabby experiences!

Spelling:

1.  sharp      2.  are     3.  chick     4.  neck     5.  black

6.  old        7.  new       8.  big       9.  hat     10.  little

Writing: We will finish up the 2^nd class story, discussing and reviewing the basic parts. We have been writing each sentence on a separate color-coded half-sheet. We will continue to apply the color-coded structured process to a more fluent application of the structure by writing a continuous story and using crayon colored dots. This story will be written out on our usual brown writing paper so that the students can see the story as a whole. Again this will be a group story. Eventually the students will apply this process to individual stories.

  

English: We will be continuing to focus on telling and asking sentences and how to choose the appropriate punctuation.

MATH: We will finish up our topic about relating subtraction and addition and we will take our topic test (Tuesday). We will also take a basic subtraction facts quiz on Wednesday. After that we will be reviewing the tens frame and parts of 10 (1,9  2,8  3,7…).

  

SOCIAL STUDIES: We will compare some aspects of life now and long ago with respect to transportation, school and activities. We will also have a brief discussion of Christopher Columbus.

SCIENCE: Science parents- take note!  We have a lab on Thursday. We will be working on sorting and graphing skills.

************************SPECIAL NOTES**********************

Tuesday- Family Fun-raiser dinner night at Chilis on El Camino- Don’t forget your green flyer!

Monday, Oct.17 – Teacher In-service Day- no school

Oct. 24-28 – Red Ribbon Week – Making healthy life choices!

Please contribute to our 1^st grade Arts and Crafts basket for the Harvest Festival- actual supplies or a $5 donation would be greatly appreciated! Harvest Festival is Saturday, Oct. 22- don’t miss out on the fun!

Monday, Oct. 31 is the Halloween parade at 8:45.  Your child may wear his/her costume to school if s/he is planning on being in the parade. Children may change after the parade. Please remember that we will be doing regular work the majority of the day, so if your child plans on wearing his/her costume the whole day, s/he must not have his/her face or hands constricted during the regular school day.

Looking way ahead- Hidden Villa Farm field trip – Friday, Nov. 4

Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Pierce