October 1-5

Important News

• Our field trip to Lake Farmpark is on Tuesday, October 2.  Please make sure you dress appropriately for the weather.  Also, please make sure that you pack a lunch!  If you are a volunteer, please arrive at the school at 9:00 am.  Thank you!
• This week a reminder will be coming home regarding your conference date and time. Please confirm by signing the form and sending it back to school with your child.
• Mrs. Haughey's class only--Please start looking for a behavior color chart that will come home daily in your child's folder.  It will show your child's daily color (green, yellow or red).  On Friday's, you will need to sign it and send it back to school. 

Language Arts

We will begin a unit on apples.  We will be reading several stories, fiction and non-fiction, about animals and the seasons.  This works perfectly with our Lake Farmpark field trip.  During the field trip, the children will learn how to make apple cider from the apples at the farm.  They will even have an opportunity to taste apple cider!  We will continue practicing fluency with the Apple, Apple on the Tree poem in our poetry folder. 

Phonemic Awareness skills:  letter names, letter sounds, ending sounds, syllables

Math

We will begin a unit on counting.  We have learned some strategies for careful counting.  Ask your child to share these strategies with you.  Also, we are practicing counting from any given number.  We have been practicing counting by 10s to 100.  We are also working hard to learn what number comes next when crossing over a decade.  What number comes after 29, 39, 49...

We are looking forward to our field trip!  Don't forget to pack your child a lunch on Tuesday!

September 24-28

Important News

The book fair is here all week!   The students will be visiting the book fair on Monday and will bring home their wish list.  You can send back the wish list and payment to school or you can come and browse on Thursday, September 27 from 5:30-7:30 pm.  Another option is visiting the Book Fair online at www.scholastic.com/fair. 

Field Trip Volunteers
Mrs. Haughey's class--Karen Dockman, Sandy Petrash, John Demyan
Mrs. Gallucci's class--Giana Citro, Sara Turner, Bryn Stock
Thank you to everyone who volunteered!

Please make sure you send in a packed lunch with your child on Tuesday, October 2 for our field trip.  We try not to bring anything home from the farm with us, so please try not to pack any items in containers.  Also, please dress for the weather as we will be outside no matter what! 

Language Arts
We will continue with our Farm unit this week.  We have been reading several stories about the farm and focusing on sequencing, setting and characters.  We have focused on fluency with our poem The Rooster.  We will do our first writing sample this week about farm animals.

Math
Our unit on shapes will continue this week.  We are also working on formation of the numbers 1-5.  We are always counting!  We have been working on counting from any given number.  For example, start at 18 and count on.  Try this activity at home with your child. 

Have a great week! 

September 17-21

Important Notes

• Monday is Constitution Day.  Wear red, white and blue!

Homework

• Review letters and sounds with your child daily.  How quickly can your child name the letters? 
• If your child knows his/her letters and sounds, practice the sight words.  Start with only a few words at a time. 
• A "Shape Hunt" homework paper will come home on Wednesday for you to complete with your child. 

Books in a Bag

• Your child should be bringing home a book in a ziploc bag.  Read this book with your child and return it as soon as you are finished.   Your child will then choose a new book to take home.  They might bring back the same book if they really like it!

Language Arts
The next 2 weeks will focus on the farm.  We will be reading several stories about the farm and farm animals.  We will be using these stories to learn about setting, cause and effect and sequencing. 

The focus for the next 2 weeks includes:

• rhyming
• letters and sounds
• final sounds
• syllables
• Left to right directionality

Sight words--the, little, we, go, you

Math
We will continue our unit on shapes.  We will be also learning 3D shapes.  Your child will bring home a shape hunt worksheet on Wednesday to complete with you at home.

Science

• observing and exploring living things, goods and services, weather

Social Studies

• Constitution Day

September 10-14

Important Notes:

• Tuesday is September 11 so wear red, white and blue!
• Tuesday, September 18 is the Ice Cream Social from 6:00-8:00 at Leighton Elementary School
• Ask your child about the traffic light behavior system.  What color is your child on?
• HOMEWORK--Have you played a rhyming game with your child?  Practice rhyming by asking your child if two words rhyme.  (Do cake and rake rhyme?) Also, try asking your child to think of a word that rhymes with a word you say.  (Can you think of a word that rhymes with sun?)

Language Arts

This week our stories will be about our five senses.  We will be reading both fiction and non-fiction books.  We will be experiencing all of the senses, except tasting, during our activities this week.

We will continue our practice of phonemic awareness with our "blue book" activities.  We will focus on rhyming.

Handwriting:  We will continue with Frog Jump Capitals ( F, E, D, P, B, R, N, M)

Math

We are working on saying the number before and after any given number from 0-30.  What number comes before 18?  What number comes after 12?

We are beginning a unit on shapes.  We will make shapes out of clay and create them on a geoboard.

Science:  5 senses