Thank you so much to each parent that came out to meet with me last week to discuss your child's progress. I truly appreciate all of the support and I can't wait to see how much your student grows throughout the rest of the year!

Hiram Hustle
If you made pledges for the Hiram Hustle, please make sure to turn in your money by October 27th to receive your prizes.

Red Ribbon Week
We have begun Red Ribbon Week!! 
The daily themes are:
Monday: Wear red
Tuesday: Wear your emoji gear
Wednesday: Dress up like what you want to be when you grow up or your favorite college team! 
Thursday: Wear camo or any military branch. NO toy weapons of any kind
Friday: Wear purple and gold or Hiram Spirit wear

 

Scholastic Book Orders
I send one book order home per month from Scholastic. This is a great resource that will help us both out! You and your student get new books on their level to practice reading and I receive points from those orders to put towards new books for our classroom. The more book orders the better! 

 

We have started all new curriculum for the 2nd nine weeks.

Reading

We have been reading informational books about pumpkins and discussing the life cycle of a pumpkin.

Writing

We began our informational writing this week. We will be using our research about pumpkins to write about how a pumpkin grows. I can't wait to see how these turn out.

Language Arts

We have starting discussing what a pronoun is. These are words you can use in the place of a noun. Her, she, he, them, we, us, etc. We also have started sorting words into categories. 

Math

This nine weeks in math, we will be working on addition and subtraction word problems within 20. They have done such a great job with this concept so far!! Students draw a large + under their problem to create 4 separate spaces. One space should be an answer sentence, one is for a number sentence, and two are for strategies. The strategies we use are the same ones we learned at the beginning of the year. We have also started really working hard on our fluency. You should have seen a few small colored papers coming home. This is what we use for fluency. Students only get 1 minute to complete the 15 problems.

Oct. 23-27 - Red Ribbon Week

Oct. 27 - All Pro Dad's
Nov. 3 - Fall Festival

Nov. 5 - Change your clocks back 1 hour!
Nov. 7 - Teacher workday! NO SCHOOL
Nov. 10 - Veteran's Day Assembly

Conferences

Conference week is coming up during the week of October 16-20th. I am excited to be able to sit down with you to discuss your child's progress over the past 9 weeks. :) We will be having a 1 hour early release the entire week! If you have not done so already, please sign up for a time that works best for you by following the link below. Be on the lookout for a letter confirming the time you chose. If something changes, just let me know and we can work it out! 

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0a4ba4ac23abfc1-fall

Reading and Sight Words

Please make sure you are reading with your child nightly and practicing sight words. I have seen so many sight word check off sheets the past few weeks and it makes me SUCH a happy teacher!! :) The more sight words the kiddos know, the more fluent their reading will be. 

Please make sure you are reading with your child nightly, and returning the envelopes on your assigned day :) 

Scholastic Book Orders
I send one book order home per month from Scholastic. This is a great resource that will help us both out! You and your student get new books on their level to practice reading and I receive points from those orders to put towards new books for our classroom. The more book orders the better! 

 

This past week we reviewed and assessed many of the concepts we have been talking about for the past few weeks. I want to make sure the kiddos are confident in their ability to understand the concepts and master the standards. 

Reading

The concepts we reviewed were how to retell a story and how to describe the characters and setting with details. 

Writing

We wrapped up our Narrative writing unit by writing about a time they did met a new friend. Students had to tell me who their friend was, what they did and how they felt being with this friend. They turned out great and I can't wait for you to see them.

Language Arts

This week we reviewed nouns, adjectives and multiple meaning words.Multiple meaning words are words like fly. *A fly is in my food. *A plane can fly.

Math

We have covered a lot of concepts in math this first quarter. These concepts include the meaning of the equal sign, determining if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false, number order, counting and making sets, adding and subtracting by counting and using different strategies, and graphing data using tally marks. 

Science and Social Studies

We reviewed weather and where we live on the map.

Oct. 12 - Fire Safety Visit

Oct. 13 - News You Can Use Meeting @ 8:15

Oct. 13 - Hiram Hustle

Oct. 16 - 20 - Conferences. Early Release @ 1:30 pm

Oct. 27 - All Pro Dad's

Nov. 5 - Change your clocks back 1 hour!