- Some of the skills we will be working on while reading our just right books are:
- Reading with Fluency
- Using punctuation marks to read with a storyteller's voice
- Taking our time
- reading with expression
- noticing patterns in books
- talking about books with a partner
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- Check your child's folder every night for notes and homework.
- Remember to read with your child each night and fill in the star paper!
- Dress your child appropriately as the weather gets colder!
- Label all of your child's clothing
- Send in a healthy snack everyday!
- Send in:
- 10 dimes
- pillow case for Native American costume
- empty Oatmeal boxes
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- Nov. 6th - Parent Conferences (no school for students)
- Nov. 8th& 9th- No School - NJ Teacher's Convention
- Nov. 12th- Lenape Lifestyles program
- Nov. 15th - Evening Conferences
- Nov. 20th - Making Corn Muffins
- Nov. 21st - Thanksgiving Feast Early Dismissal (12:20pm)
- Nov. 22nd-23rd- No School
- Nov. 29th - Author Day (Jerry Pallotta)
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- Practice spelling and saying short a, i and o phonic families
- tell number stories
- count change (pennies, nickels, and dimes)
- look for signs of Autumn
- Do activities from math and family calendars
- Ask about your child's day
- Talk about events at home to help with ideas for writer's workshop
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- beginning, medial, and ending consonant sounds
- double consonant endings
- syllables
- plurals with -s and -es
- /g/, /o/, /x/, /ar/, /ck/, /u/, /z/, /l/,
- practice word families for -ick, -ill, -ar, -og,
-ot, -uzz, -ug
- Formal Spelling Begins:
short a words, short o words
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- patterns
- even and odd numbers
- Adding and subtracting on the number line
- Telling time to the half hour
- Dimes
- Frames and Arrows
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- spinning experiments
- Election Day
- Lenape Ways
- Thanksgiving
- Pilgrims
- Open Circle: including others, cooperating, ways to deal with teasing, feeling different and speaking up
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- brainstorming for writing ideas
- choosing a small moment
- "show" don't "tell" a story
- using full sentences
- using punctuation marks to end sentences
- stretching our stories
- writing for an audience
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