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Read all about our week below!

Literacy 

This week during our reader’s workshop lessons the children worked on the following skills:

-Comparing Fantasy and Realistic Fiction stories

-Making connections

-Identifying the lesson of the story

-Visualizing (making a movie in our minds)

Stellaluna:
On Monday, the children listened to the story, Stellaluna. After, they discussed what happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Then, they wrote their own sequencing cards. One for the beginning, middle, and end of the story. They glued their cards to their very own Stellaluna bat. They look great hanging from our ceiling!

Guided Reading:

We will be taking a short break from guided reading groups next week. I will be meeting with the children one on one to do a second round of running records. Reassessing allows me to make sure that each child is receiving reading instruction that best fits their instructional reading level. 

Writing

This week, the 1-1 authors published their small moment pieces. They worked extremely hard at rewriting their story in their best handwriting and adding careful, colorful, detailed illustrations to support their writing. The children also added an opening an closing sentence to complete their small moment piece. These will be on display in the hallway at conference time so you can enjoy them!  

Math 

In Math, the children worked with recognizing, describing, and creating visual patterns. They found patterns around our classroom and then worked with a partner to create their own patterns using craft sticks. 

The children were also introduced to even and odd numbers. They worked with counters to explore even and odd number patterns. The children noticed the following patterns:

-Even numbers end in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8.

-Odd numbers end in 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9.

-Even numbers are counts by 2s, starting with 0.

On Wednesday, the children worked with their number grids to describe and compare number patterns. They looked at number patterns for counts of 2s, 5s, and 10s. 

On Thursday, the children enjoyed completing 2 explorations. They worked with making patterns and sorting even and odd numbers.

Halloween Fun!

The children had a wonderful fun filled Halloween afternoon! The children kicked off the Halloween festivities with a parade around the Dryden neighborhood. Thank you to everyone for coming out! After the parade and a short recess, we headed back to our classroom for our Halloween party. The children enjoyed some delicious treats, created a mummy, played Pin the Smile on the Mummy, played Pumpkin Ball Toss, and guessed how much candy was in a jar. Thank you to everyone who sent in supplies for our party: treats, drinks, paper goods, and crafts! A very big thank you to our two party volunteers, Mrs. Humann and Mrs. Tita! Thank you for your incredible job planning and running our party. The children had a great time!

                                   

Star Student

Nathan was our star student this week. Thanks Nathan for sharing all about you!

***Photo coming soon!***

Royal Reader

A special thank you to Nathan’s Mom, she joined us this week as our Royal Reader. The children loved listening to the two stories that Mrs. Trudeau read, Read to Tiger and Click, Clack, Boo!

Notes:

-On Tuesday, November 3rd, the children will enjoy a visit from HighTouch HighTech. A scientist will bring in a variety of Buggy experiments for the scientists to engage in. Check back next week for photos of their in school field trip! 

-Wednesday, November 4th is picture retakes. If you would like your child to have their picture retaken, please return your child’s entire picture packet (with the exception that you can keep the class photo).

Have a great Halloween and rest of the weekend!