**Outstanding October**

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**Picture Day October 3rd

**Pumpkin Picking Field Trip

**No School Thursday, October 9th~ Yom Kippur

Fall Conferences October 27th~ No School

**Halloween Party and Parade October 31st

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Themes For The Month:

Fall

Fire Safety

Columbus Day

Pumpkins

Red Ribbon Week

School Violence Awareness Week

Scarecrows

Halloween

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Language Arts

*Letter/Sound Correspondence Skills * Handwriting and Letter Formation

Cc Oo Aa Dd Gg Qq Ee Ll Ff Ii

*Word Study * Shared Reading *Shared Writing * Interactive Writing *Read- Alouds.

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Word Wall Words

a, am, and, at, I, is, look, me, my, name, see, the, to, with, up

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Open Circle

*Giving and Receiving Compliments *Including One Another *Cooperation

* Dealing With Double D Behaviors * Dealing With Annoying Behaviors

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Writing Workshop:

*First Writing Celebration ~ We Are Writers!

* Personal Narratives and Label Books

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Reading Workshop:

** Readers Build Good Habits **

*Fall in love with reading* Building Reading Identities * Who am I as a Reader?

*Finding my reading spot * Reading Partners

**First Reading Celebration

*Readers Read, Think, and Talk about Emergent Story Books and Invent Fun Things to Do With Them

Reading "Old Favorites" to story tell and build comprehension

**Please click this link to view our *Star Book* "wish list".

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Science

* Fabulous Fall* Learning Habitat * My Five Senses

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Math

* Patterns * Height COmparisons* Numbers in our world 0-20 including "Tricky Teens"* Shapes

* Matching Coins *Symmetry* Estimating

Family Math Letter ~ Beginning of the Year

Family Math Letter ~Routines

Family Math Letter Mid- Year

Family Math Letter End of the Year

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**Check out some of our favorite class websites**

PBSkids 

Starfall

Rainforest