Thank you to the following parents that were able to attend our field trip to “The Hundred Dresses” at the Royal George Theater: Angeliki’s mom, Nina’s mom and Everlasting’s mom.  It was a great performance and the children were great audience members.  Mark your calendars for October 28<sup>th</sup>!  We will take our next field trip and can use a ton of volunteers.  A few reminders for this week:
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	<li>Lunch money needs to be placed <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">in an envelope</span></strong> with your child’s name and the days that they will be eating lunch for the ENTIRE week.  It makes the money collecting process much easier if I only have to collect money one day of the week.  Thank you for your help and consideration.</li>
	<li>The snack schedule for October asks that girls bring in snacks.</li>
	<li>School fees are $85 per year.  Please see that you pay the school fee as soon as possible.  Again, please place the check in an envelope with your child’s information.  School fees were due on October 1<sup>st</sup>.</li>
	<li>I am sending home Scholastic book orders today.  Please return the order by Friday of this week.  I sent home the books ordered for September, but was missing a student name on one of the forms.  If you ordered books in September and did not get your order, please let me know!</li>
	<li>Please pick up a packet in the office if you are interested in volunteering in the classroom.</li>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline">MYSTERY READERS FOR OCTOBER</span>:

<strong>Heather Edelman (10-8), Chris Andrews (10-13), Jeff Fitzkappes (10-22), Keronn Walker (10-28)</strong>

<em>Please arrive by 3:10 pm and if possible send a childhood picture at the start of the week so that I can scan the photo and post it on our bulletin board. I will send home a November calendar towards the end of the month- I appreciate the great response from parents!!! </em>

 

This week I will continue to teach the students how to work independently during reading workshop time.  The students have learned how to INDEPENDENTLY read to self, work on writing and read to someone.  This week we will learn what it means to check for understanding and how to read books with a partner.  I will start assessing the students using running records this week- which means I will have the students read out loud to me so that I can determine their reading levels and place them in appropriate groups for instruction.

This week we will read books on farms.  We will read the books “Big Red Barn”, “Click, Clack Moo Cows that Type”,  “The Little Red Hen”, “Giggle, Giggle, Quack” and “Rosie’s Walk”.  We will learn the following poems and add them to our poetry journal: “The Little Old Lady who swallowed a Fly” and “Fishy, Fishy”.  In Phonics we will work on hearing syllables in words, letter sounds, and hearing first and last sounds.

This week in writing workshop we will continue to work on spelling words by stretching words out.  We will learn how to keep our writing based on finished and ongoing work.  We will also continue our handwriting program. We will continue practice on capital letters.

In math this week I will finish assessing students using the white boards and a self-assessment.  We will start unit 2.  We will work with number grids, introduce the parts of our telephone numbers and explore complements of 10.  In science we will explore more solids and construct with solids.  Have a super week!