Halloween Information:
Halloween Parade
Our Parade Route begins at 1:30pm outside of our southeast doors (near our gymnasium and the buffalo). The students will continue north on the sidewalk and then head west past the district office around the building, past the playground and end back at the southeast, Buffalo door. Please keep your fingers crossed that we have great weather! In case of inclement weather, we will have an indoor parade for teachers and students only.
Parties
Parties
Parties will begin at approximately 2:00pm and end at 2:45pm
Only PTO approved parent party volunteers may attend classroom parties. No siblings are able to attend.
If you are a volunteer, it is recommended that you have your driver's license scanned into our security system prior to party day so that your badge can be ready for you upon arrival.
All party treats must come from the Approved Snack List (see page 3) and brought in to be checked by the nurse. Only items on the approved list can be shared and must be in original packaging with ingredient labeling. No goodie bags allowed. Whole fruits only. Fruits can not be cut up unless individually packaged by distributor. These need to be at school by 9:00 am on October 31st. They can be brought in prior to that and will be kept safely in the office.
Halloween Costumes
Halloween Costumes
As October is here, please help us with the following costume procedures and guidelines....
Students will change into their costumes after the lunch period.
Costumes must be appropriate for school.
-Please no masks, blood, super scary stuff, general iciness, or weapons
-Please no cigars or cigarette items
-Please no bare tummies
-Please keep hair coloring and make-up simple
-Can students go home for lunch to get into costumes?
Home for Lunch to Change
Costumes must be appropriate for school.
-Please no masks, blood, super scary stuff, general iciness, or weapons
-Please no cigars or cigarette items
-Please no bare tummies
-Please keep hair coloring and make-up simple
-Can students go home for lunch to get into costumes?
Home for Lunch to Change
Students are able to be picked up to go home during their own grade level lunch period. See below for specific times and details. Students will meet their parent/grandparent/family member in the foyer of the school. Please write a note stating that students will be going home for lunch. Students will give their “going home for lunch” note to the staff members who are supervising pick-up. Students need to return to school by the end of their lunch/recess period.
Lunch/recess periods are as follows:
Lunch/recess periods are as follows:
- 1st grade at 11:50am - 12:30pm
- 2nd grade at 10:50am - 11:30am
- 3rd grade at 11:30am - 12:10pm
- 4th grade at 11:10am - 11:50am
- 5th grade at 12:10pm - 12:50pm
Thank you for helping us to keep our Halloween activities fun and safe!
Birthdays!
I have had a few questions about birthdays and just wanted to explain our birthday celebrations at school!
*If your student is celebrating a birthday you are more than welcome to bring treats or goody bags. Please stick to small little items like pencils, erasers, etc.
*ANY food item must be off of the approved snack list. Please check carefully for the different flavors as well! For example Annies Fruit Roll Ups are ok but other variations may not be! Any items not on the approved snack list will be sent home.
*We love to sing happy birthday to our friends and each student gets their own crown on their birthday. They also get a special birthday pencil and eraser with a cake on it that they get to use!
*If your student has a summer birthday we can always celebrate on their half birthday or at the end of the school year! Just send me an email and I will make sure we are ready to celebrate! :-)
Weather!
With fall comes chilly temperatures! Please make sure your student is dressed for the weather. Students will be going outside each day. As the temperatures get colder you may also want to bring hats, gloves, and other items to stay warm.
*If your student is celebrating a birthday you are more than welcome to bring treats or goody bags. Please stick to small little items like pencils, erasers, etc.
*ANY food item must be off of the approved snack list. Please check carefully for the different flavors as well! For example Annies Fruit Roll Ups are ok but other variations may not be! Any items not on the approved snack list will be sent home.
*We love to sing happy birthday to our friends and each student gets their own crown on their birthday. They also get a special birthday pencil and eraser with a cake on it that they get to use!
*If your student has a summer birthday we can always celebrate on their half birthday or at the end of the school year! Just send me an email and I will make sure we are ready to celebrate! :-)
Weather!
With fall comes chilly temperatures! Please make sure your student is dressed for the weather. Students will be going outside each day. As the temperatures get colder you may also want to bring hats, gloves, and other items to stay warm.
Literacy
Writing:
We have finished our first round of narrative writing and have been working on informational writing. Students have been introduced to the T-chart planner and how to use a T-chart to help them organize their thinking before they begin writing. Last week we read two scholastic news articles. One about spiders and the other about pumpkins. Students practiced finding facts to answer their writing prompt. We also have started to talk about what a topic and closing sentence is. Students have also been working on CUPS (capitalization, verb usage and agreement, punctuation, and spelling).
We have finished our first round of narrative writing and have been working on informational writing. Students have been introduced to the T-chart planner and how to use a T-chart to help them organize their thinking before they begin writing. Last week we read two scholastic news articles. One about spiders and the other about pumpkins. Students practiced finding facts to answer their writing prompt. We also have started to talk about what a topic and closing sentence is. Students have also been working on CUPS (capitalization, verb usage and agreement, punctuation, and spelling). 
Spelling: We have been working hard with our new Words Their Way program. Students are recognizing words and their patterns in books and poems, writing sentences with their new words and sorting them into their pattern categories.
Reading:
During the next few weeks, students will continue to work on differentiating between fiction (literature) and non-fiction (informational text). They will also practice asking questions before, during, and after reading, as well as answer questions (including inferential- beyond the text questions). Students ARE encouraged to go back into the book to answer questions. We will continue to work toward describing characters, settings, and events within stories as well. We have started looking at what the main topic is in nonfiction text and which details tell more about the main topic. We will continue to work on these skills through out this unit. *Don't forget to read 15 minutes each night! This can begin with you simply reading to your student and slowly increasing the time they are reading to you.
I did collect reading logs from September and put new reading logs in students folders for October. I will collect the October reading logs in a few weeks.
This week we have been working on mental math strategies like fact families and knowing which numbers belong together. For example 4,3, and 7. If I know that 4,3 and 7 will always be together solving addition or subtraction facts becomes much quicker. We will also be working on strategies like doubles +1 and making 10. Doubles +1 is when we have a fact like 7 + 6. I know 6+6 is 12 so 7+6 must be one more since 7 is one more than 6. The answer would be 13. Making 10 is when we see problems like 9+4. If I take one away from 4 it becomes 3 and I give that 1 to the 9 which becomes 10. So 10 + 3 is the same as 9+4. When I make ten, that can make it easier to add the numbers quickly. We will continue with mental math strategies this week and be moving into number stories.
Social Studies
We are coming to the end of our symbols study. Students have looked at many symbols that stand for strength, freedom, and liberty. We have also began to discuss who our current president is and what the presidents job includes. We will continue to discuss this in the next few weeks.
We have been investigating sound and how vibration makes sound. Students have tested instruments and made their own garage band. We even played as a table for the whole class! We will continue to talk about sound in the next few weeks and how light and sound can work together to send messages. For example an ambulance has flashing lights and sirens that tell people they are coming through!
October/November Current Events
** Please also check our School Calendar for other events that may not be listed below! Calendar
October 23 - Early Release Day 2:00 PM
October 31 - Halloween Parade and Party
November 6 - No School - Institute Day
November 9 - Half Day - 11:45 dismissal
November 15 - Family Reading Night
November 19 - Early Release, Parent-Teacher Conferences 5:00pm-7:00pm
November 9 - Half Day - 11:45 dismissal
November 15 - Family Reading Night
November 19 - Early Release, Parent-Teacher Conferences 5:00pm-7:00pm
November 20 - Parent-Teacher Conferences 2:00pm-7:00pm (No School)
November 21-23 - No School Thanksgiving Holiday
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