Week of October 1, 2012

Hello Room 4 Families!
It's amazing that we are starting our second month of school. Your kids continue to work hard and try their best every day.

Language arts this week:
New high frequency words: I and see
This week we will be finishing our School unit and beginning unit 2, Shadows. We will begin reading and learning about different shadows, what we need to make a shadow, and who/what has shadows.
We are continuing to focus on learning to recognize and form letters. This week we will practice Kk, Ll, Mm, and Nn.
We are going to finish up our autobiographies this week. Our writing this unit will focus mostly on writing about shadows.

Math: This week we will finish chapter 2 on numbers 0 to 5. Our objectives for the week are the read and write zero, to compare numbers 0 to 5, to draw a picture to help sove a problem, and to order numbers 0 to 5. The kids will take the chapter test on Friday.

Social Studies: This week we continue our first unit on learning to work together. We will have lessons on sharing, following rules, problem solving, and respect.

Field Trip:
Our first field trip will be this month! We are going to Dave's Pumpkin Patch in West Sacramento on Friday, October 26th. The cost for this trip is $5.50 per student. This pays for a hayride, a corn maze, a small pumpkin, and an activity book. Please send cash to school as soon as possible. We will leave school at 9 am and return around 12.
Any parents who have been fingerprinted and would like to accompany us on this trip, we would love to have you! Please let me know as soon as possible.

October newsletters: Parents, please see your child's homework folder on Monday for a packet with October school and PTO newletters and calendars. These will typically go home the first Monday of each month.
In it you will find information regarding the Home Run Readers program, which our class will be participating in. This program will replace the homework reading log. On Monday we will attend the kick-off for this event.

Classroom playdates:
Classroom parent Carolyn Stallings would like to start organizing some afternoon/weekend park playdates for room 4 students to get to know each other and play outside of school. If you are interested in joining this group, please email Carolyn at carolynstallingsot@yahoo.com

Thank you to the Rojas and Weathers families for donating smocks to the classroom! Your kids did their first paintings last week. Come check them out!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns please email me at carrie-relles@scusd.edu
Thanks for reading! Have a great week!