<p style="text-align: left">Reminders:</p>

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	<li>The green and white Ray School folder will come home only on Fridays full of notes for you to read.  Please read and respond appropriately.  Send the folder back on Monday.  This is a good way to send lunch money as well.</li>
	<li>The red folder will come home Monday with homework.  Please work on it a little bit at a time each day with your child and return in on Friday. </li>
	<li>Please send lunch/milk money for the week on Mondays.</li>
	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline">October is snack month for girls</span>.  Please send in a healthy snack, enough for 26 students.  We do have a peanut allergy so please be careful in choosing your snack.</li>
	<li>November will be snack month for boys.</li>
	<li>Ms. Travis Traveling Library books (in clear bag) come home on Wednesdays and should be returned Tuesdays.</li>
	<li>Library books (in the green bag) are chosen by the student and should be returned on Fridays.</li>
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Field Trip – We will be taking a field trip to the Pumpkin Farm on October 28.  Please send trip form and money back to school by October 22.  Anyone who would like to chaperone is welcome.  The cost for students and chaperones is $12 per person.  Please do not bring or send extra money with students.  All activities that we will be participating in are included in the trip cost.

Classroom Volunteers – those who have begun the screening process are welcome to begin volunteering on a limited basis until the process is complete.  A schedule, formed during Open House, has been included in your child’s folder this week.  The blanks indicate vacancies that can still be filled if you have not yet signed up.  Thank you in advance for all your help and support

Halloween/Literacy Day – A Literacy Day Parade will be held on October 30.  Students are asked to dress up like their favorite book character.  The day will be centered on literacy activities.  If you have already purchased or created your child’s costume and it is not based on a character, I encourage you to work with your child to create a story about who they are dressed up as and bring it to school.  If your child is dressed up like a character from a book please send the book to school with them on the 30<sup>th</sup>.

This week:
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	<li>In Math we will begin writing numbers.  We will also review identifying numbers, and counting.  I will continue assessing students to determine their basic knowledge.</li>
	<li>In Reading we will continue exploring letters.  I will be assessing students to find out which letters and sounds they already know.  We will use shared reading to explore phonics and comprehension strategies.  We will also continue to build stamina for reading to ourselves.  Hearing syllables in words will continue to be a focus and we will also work on hearing sounds in words.</li>
	<li>In Writing we will continue to discuss choosing ideas from our lives on which we can base stories we want to tell.  Students will continue to tell those stories through drawing pictures and writing words, when they can. </li>
	<li>For Handwriting I will introduce letters M, H, K and review the letters we’ve learned so far. </li>
	<li>In Social Studies we will continue to practice using I message to resolve conflicts and building community.</li>
	<li>For Science we will continue to observe our class tree and our adopted tree.  We will continue working to identify parts of a tree.  We will begin to identify different kinds of trees.  Please have your student bring in a leaf that has already fallen to the ground. </li>
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Important Dates to Remember:
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	<li>No School 10/23</li>
	<li>PTA meeting 10/19</li>
	<li>Field Trip to Pumpkin Farm 10/28</li>
	<li>Reading Day, Literacy Parade 10/30</li>
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<p align="center">Have a Great Week!</p>