Weekly Update

Last week absolutely flew by! Here is a quick update:

Coming up:

• Star Student: Hannah Blaskowski
• Monday, October 31: Halloween Party at 9am
• Friday, November 4: Early Release Day
• Wednesday and Thursday, November 9-10: Parent/Teacher Conferences

• Halloween Information: Our party will be taking place first thing in the morning at 9am. Students are asked to wear their costumes to school that day. This should be over their clothes. Once the party is over, students will remove their costumes and place them in their backpacks. (Any parents in attendance may take costumes home.) Any questions, please let me know. 
• Library Books: We had many students not return library books this past week. Please be sure to have your child return library books each week. Our library day is Thursday. 
• Vocabulary: Our word this past week was RETELL. Have your child practice retelling their WEB book to you this week. 
• Reading Workshop: Going along with our vocabulary word of the week, we practiced retelling our books this week. We also practiced using our reading finger, and sliding our finger while reading. 
• Writing Workshop: We selected topics for a small moment story. We made a plan across pages for our story, and wrote our first two pages. 
• Math Workshop: We practiced the addition strategy of counting on last week, and we began learning subtraction strategies. 
• Science: We started our science unit "Properties of Matter." We have learned about attributes, sink and float, and started exploring magnets. 
• Whiteboard Practice Idea: This week we learned about 4 different spelling for the /k/ sound: c   k   ck   ke

Here is an activity you two can do together!
Have your child say and write these four spellings for this sound on the top of their board.

Have your child go on a hunt for the /k/ sound around the house. When they find something, have them say as they write the word in the middle of their boards. You will stop them to error correct any misspellings that occur.
Then ask your child to either dot or dash the letter(s) that make the /k/ sound. Ask them what column it belongs in. Erase the word, and have them say as they write the word in the correct column. Remember to stop and correct them if any errors are made.