B week – gym
November 10- Book order money due.
November 10- Genet night at 5 Guys from 5:00 to 7:00. I will be working from 6:30- 7:00
November 11- No school- Veteran’s Day
November 13- PTO Drive in Movie- Up- 7:00
November 19 – half day for Parent–Teacher
conferences. The PTO will be offering baby-sitting for $1 per child during conference times; if you would like to sign-up for this service contact Kathy Lindemann at Klindema@nycap.rr.com.
November 20- 9:20- Our class will go to the Book Fair.
*Consider being a Guest Reader! We have the following dates available at 12:30—12/18, 1/8, 1/15, 1/22
* We are looking for donations of baby wipes.
*Please let me know if you would be available to help us sew on Wednesday (11/18) from about 9:15- 10:15. Thank you to those who already sent in the $1.00 to help cover the cost of our special Native American projects.
* I am so excited to see kids borrowing books from my personal library. Please remind them to send the books back to school.
*Genet’s book drive to help Concerns-U runs through November 24. Our class has already donated 4 (great job!) Consider donating a new book for this wonderful program.
What’s Happening in 229…
This week we will review the following word families- oy, oi, ow (how) and ou (couch). We will review prefixes. The study skill continues to be reading a diagram.
In Readers’ Workshop we continue reading books by Angela Johnson. The children will look for examples of vivid language in her work. We will also discuss the “Big Feelings” we get during and after we read her books. We will start reviewing nonfiction conventions once a week for the next few weeks. Our first convention is the table of contents. Children will look for examples in their nonfiction text.
In Writer’s Workshop, we will be “thinking like writers” to study the work of Angela Johnson as a mentor author. We will look for various techniques she uses in her work that we can strive to use in our personal narratives (small moments). Over the coming days we will create a class chart of these including: zooming in on her topic, using vivid language to create mental images, using repeating language to evoke a feeling, using ellipses to create dramatic tension, adding dialogue, showing character’s feelings rather than telling them and staying close to the heart of the story. Students will begin by examining how she zooms in on her topic and work on their own topic selection.
The time is finally here…. We will begin our work with cursive writing this week. We begin by learning some new strokes and trying to read cursive. Children have been instructed not to use cursive yet until we learn all the letters.
In math we will continue to work with graphing and data collecting. This week’s skills include, reading a bar graph, graphing on a grid and some fun work with probability.
This week we will be talking about a bunch of different topics- from a review of staying healthy to Veteran’s Day. On Friday we kick-off our weeklong study of Native Americans with a special surprise!
Did you hear that we have over 200 drink pouches in our classroom alone?? The kids love putting them into groups of 10 and then counting them up.
We had a lot of fun reading postcards last week from LegoLand in CA, Spain, New York City and the Empire State Building and the Kitty Hawk, NC and the sight of the Wright Brother’s first flight. We have all learned a lot!
Congratulations to our VIP:
McCayla Burns
