Reminders:
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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>
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Progress Reports – Kindergarten is not sending home a progress report for the first five weeks.  We are still establishing routines and community norms.  If you have questions please feel free to contact me.

 This week:
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	<li>In Math we will review spatial vocabulary and concepts.  We will also review identifying numbers, counting and patterns.  I am 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 rhymes and syllables in words will also be a focus.</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 B, R, N and M. </li>
	<li>In Social Studies we will continue to practice using I message to resolve conflicts.</li>
	<li>For Science we will continue to observe our class tree and our adopted tree.  We will also begin identifying parts of a tree.  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 10/12, 10/23</li>
	<li>PTA meeting 10/19</li>
	<li>Reading Day, Literacy Parade 10/30 - students dress up like their favorite book character</li>
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<p align="center">Have a Great Week!</p>