Friday, October 26th

Next week we have PE on Tuesday and Friday.

Dear Parents,

Our field trip to the zoo was a great success. Thank you to all of the chaperones!  Next week, we will continue to make connections between our life cycles unit and the information that students collected about animals that they saw and wrote about at the zoo.

You will find a permission slip for our next field trip in your child’s Friday folder.  On Friday, November 16th we will be going to see Annie at the Broomfield Library Auditorium.  Please sign the permission slip and have your child return it to school as soon as possible. There is no cost for this trip!  We will walk to the auditorium at 8:15 and return to school by 1:30 for our fall party!

Thank you to those of you who have returned Read a Thon donation envelopes. Please have your child return their envelope as soon as possible. We greatly appreciate your support!

We had our last lesson with Thorne Nature Experience this week.  Students spent time creating a book about their learning.  Thank you to our PTA for funding our work with Thorne!

Curriculum Update
Students are reading and writing informational texts.  They have read and written about paleontologists and the difficulties of living in Alaska in the winter. Next week, students will be reading and writing about animal migration.  Please talk to your child about the purpose of informational writing and share interesting facts that you learn through your own reading of informational texts.

We are moving through our second math unit-Multiplication and Division 1-10s. Unit 2 has been a lot of practice with all of the multiplication and division facts and how to use them in one and now two step word problems. The class is doing a good job of using a step by step method to find the important information, think about what the problem is asking them to do and then writing and solving the equation.

Our life cycles unit has been enhanced through our lessons with Thorne and our trip to the zoo. Each student planted a pea seed and will be observing the stages of its life cycle over the next few weeks.  We have lots of sprouting seeds! We will be comparing the life cycles of our pea plants to the life cycles of animals like: a butterfly, frog, and mealworm.  

Our new literacy materials are providing us with some rich interactive read aloud experiences. We just finished a selection of texts all focusing on the importance of kindness. Students are learning to confidently identify the genre of texts and to discuss their thinking about texts using evidence from the text to support their ideas.

Homework for next week:

• ReadingPlus or iReady lessons at least once per week.
• Read at least 20 min nightly.

• Check in with your child about their Mystery State assignment.  Help your child practice their Dictado sentence. This should be written in their homework notebook each week.
• Practice math X and / facts 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, and 10. 10 minutes daily

Mark Your Calendar

Friday, October 26th-Trunk or Treat 5:30-7:30

Friday, November 16th-Field Trip to see Annie the play

Friday, November 16th-Fall Party 1:30-2:30

Have a wonderful weekend.  

Sincerely,

Mrs. Aisha Galt