Week of October 12-16

Hello Room 4 families!
We had such a good week in room 4. The kids have been working so hard, and their work is showing in all of the gains I am already seeing in reading and writing. Thank you parents for reinforcing our school work at home by reading with your child daily and helping your child when necessary with homework.

Here is what we have coming up:

Friday 10/16: Jog-a-Thon envelopes are due no later than 8:10 am for your child to be eligible for prizes. You can send these in to school any day this week.
We will be working in the garden on this day with our 5th grade buddies. The kindergarteners and 5th graders are enjoying working together so much. On Friday afternoons be sure to ask your child if he or she saw their buddy at school and what they did together.

Thursday 10/22: Kinder field trip to Dave's Pumpkin Patch
Thank you to everyone who sent in the $5.50 for the trip and to those who volunteered to chaperone. I am waiting for fingerprint verification from the district office for several people, so I will confirm with many of you when our office has the verification.
Remember kids need to bring a lunch that day because we will be eating at the pumpkin patch.

Saturday 10/24:Phoebe Hearst Harvest Festival
This is such a fun afternoon for PH families and friends to come a play carnival games, wear costumes, and see friends. Each class is responsible for running a booth, which of course would not be possible without volunteers. Our class is doing a tattoo and facepainting booth, and we really need help with volunteer facepainters. I promise our facepainting designs will be simple! Volunteer shifts can be 30 to 60 minutes.
If you work at the Harvest Festival (or any school event) you can log double parent volunteer hours for yourself. Please contact our room parents Melody ( melodyaf@hotmail.com ) or Erica (ericalleonard@gmail.com ) if you can help. Thank you for supporting room 4 and PH!

Language Arts
This week we continue to work with rhymes, letter names and sounds, and listening for spoken words in sentences. We have begun counting and isolating words we hear in spoken sentences, which will help when your child begins to read and write complete sentences.
New sight words: he and she.
Letter focus: Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt
We also will continue to study how authors tell stories from pictures. We will talk about emotions that characters have and look for these details in stories we read.

Math
On Thursday we will take our Topic 3 test on numbers to 10.
On Friday we will begin Topic 4: Comparing and Ordering Numbers 0 to 10.

This week's student of the week will be Kyle. Please be sure to stop by and check out her poster and the letters from her classmates! (the letters will be up Tuesday)

Thank you for reading, everyone! Please do not hesitate to email me with any questions or concerns.
carrie.relles@gmail.com