Friday, October 25th

Next week we have PE on Wednesday.

QUICK REMINDERS:

Thursday, October 31st: Halloween Parade and Party 8:00-9:00

Monday, November 11th: No School Veteran’s Day

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 was shared during our life cycles class at the zoo. 

Thank you for coming to your child’s parent teacher conference.  After meeting with all of you, I understand why we have such a special class.  You are a group of very supportive parents. Please continue to talk to your child about their goals at school and let me know if you have any questions or concerns as the year progresses.

Curriculum Update:

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 pea seeds and is observing the stages of its life cycle.  We have lots of sprouting seeds! We are comparing the life cycles of our pea plants to the life cycles of animals like: a butterfly, frog, and mealworm.  

Our literacy materials are providing us with some rich interactive read aloud experiences. We are reading a selection of texts by Patricia Polacco and are discussing the characteristics of her writing. 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.

Enjoy the warm weather today and tomorrow, it looks like we are in for a big weather change on Sunday.  

Sincerely,

Mrs. Aisha Galt