Dear Families,
September
has disappeared in a flash and it ended with a crazy weather week. It was a busy week in the classroom as well
as the weather. We are finishing up with
our lessons on making connections with books.
I will continue to talk about it during the year and it is something
good to practice as you read at home with your child. In writing, we have been focusing on adding
beginning and endings to our narrative stories (stories about ourselves). We will continue to learn to write stories
about ourselves and we will publish one in November. In math, we continue exploring 2 dimensional
shapes. The children are having to show
the many ways they can make a new shape with different pattern blocks. We will finish up this unit next week and
then begin again with numbers and word problems. In science, we investigated seeds this
week. The children learned the 3 parts
of the seed. We also picked our corn. We
saw what insects do to crops and how Indian corn changes. Next week we will start the plant life cycle
and talk about scientific drawings.
Please
remember that tomorrow, Saturday, October 1st is Family Fix It Day/
Garden clean up. It is from 7:00 am to
12:00. I will be here for the first hour
to help. Hope to see you there! Next week is a regular week. We have early release on Thursday. The FFO is doing the Box Top Fundraiser again
this year. Once you collect some, please
send them in. Book Orders are due
Friday. The books will probably arrive
just after fall break. I added the website
and class activation code under links. I
am looking forward to meeting with you over the next couple of weeks for
conferences. Please let me know if your
child’s end of the day routine will change during conference week.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Berk