Thursday, October 18, 2012

October 22-26

Important News
  • Conferences are on Tuesday and Thursday.  We look forward to speaking with you about your child.
  • Friday, October 26 is the Fall Festival Party.  Please send your child's costume to school in a bag.  We will get dressed right before the party begins.  Please refer to the party/costume guidelines that came home in the Miller newsletter.
  • Mrs. Gallucci's class only--Book orders are due on Thursday, November 1.
Homework
  • Practice tying shoes!
  • sight words or bonus words
  • Bring back the "book in a bag" so that your child can choose a new one and keep reading!
Language Arts
We will begin a unit on the seasons and weather.  We will be reading both non-fiction and fiction books about these topics.  While reading these books, we will focus on main idea and comparing and contrasting.  We will also be writing about the things we see during each  of the seasons.

Math
We will be playing a game called Compare.  This math game is similar to the card game "war".  The person with the highest number card keeps both cards.  This will reinforce the skill of comparing two collections. 
Also, we are working on learning domino patterns.  We want the students to be able to see a domino pattern (or dice) and recognize the number it is without counting the dots.  We will be using this when we teach addition.  We encourage working with dominoes or dice when working with your child at home.

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