Reminders:

• 10/3 Picture Day
• 10/6 Fire Prevention Day
• 10/9 - Holiday - No School
• 10/14 - Pumpkin Picking Field Trip
• 10/20--24 Red Ribbon Week
• 10/27 - No School - Parent/Teacher Conferences
• 10/28 - Author Day
• 10/31 - Halloween: African Tales Assembly; Halloween Parade 1:10 p.m.

Themes for October:

Fall - Leaves, Pumpkins, Healthy Choices (Red Ribbon Week), Halloween

Writing Workshop: 

• First Writing Celebration ~ We Are Writers!
  Personal Narratives and Label Books
  

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
  
  

Math Workshop:

• Patterns
• Height Comparisons
• Numbers in our world 0-20 including "Tricky Teens"
• Shapes
  
• Matching Coins
• Symmetry
• Estimating
  

Math Letter 1 (pdf document)

Math Letter 2 (pdf document)

Math Letter 3 (pdf document)

Math Letter 4 (pdf document)

Open Circle:

Nonverbal signals, giving and receiving compliments, including one another, recognizing differences, dealing with Double D behaviors.

Science:

The Five Senses

Handwriting: Cc, Oo, Aa, Dd, Gg, Qq, Ee, Ll, Hh, Bb, Tt, Kk, Ff, Ii

Word Wall Words: a, I, we, is, the

In the beginning of the year we will probably cover one word per week. As the year picks up, we'll be learning about 3 words per week. Word work will come home to practice. As we learn the sight words they will be added to our word wall in our classroom.