Friday, September 26, 2014

September 29-October 10

Picture day is on Thursday, October 2!


Important News
  • Remember to send your picture envelopes to school on Thursday!
  • Mrs. Gallucci's class only--Book orders are due on October 1.
  • Thank you to the parent who volunteered to attend the Farm field trip with us! Our helpers are:  Mrs. Haughey's class: Kendall Exline, Sandra Kecken, Patti Valencic
           Mrs. Gallucci's class:  Mrs. Rodenhauser, Mrs. Zamary and Mrs. Spinelli

Language Arts

We will begin a unit on apples that will last two weeks.  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

Practice sight words!  We would like the children to be able to read and spell 4 sight words by the end of the first quarter (October 24).  The words are: a, it, in, on

Math

We will continue our 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...

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