Week of OCtober 29-November 2, 2018

Hello Families,
Our first field trip was a success! Thank you to all of our parent chaperones for helping our day go smoothly. We loved having all of you.
If you have photos from the day please email them to me at carrie.relles@gmail.com

Here is what we have coming up:

Important Dates

Saturday, 10/27: PH harvest festival, 3-6:30 pm. I hope to see all of you there!

Wednesday, 10/31: Halloween. This is an orange and black spirit day. Kids can wear orange and black or uniforms. No costumes! We will celebrate Halloween with snacks and crafts at 11:35 when the kids come back from lunch. Thanks again to Kate Alves for organizing this. If you'd like to help, please come to room 4 at about 11:20.

Monday, 11/12: Veterans' Day Holiday; NO SCHOOL

Friday, 11/16 and the week of 11/26-30: Parent/teacher conferences; minimum days. Please see the attachment from my homework email to give me your top 3 dates and times. On minimum days I walk the kids to the cafeteria at 11:40 am. You can pick them up then or they can eat lunch until 12 and then be picked up. Kids who go to 4th R get picked up at 12. There are no after school classes that week.

11/18-11/23: Thanksgiving Holiday; NO SCHOOL

Language Arts
This week we work on the letter n and the /n/ sound.
Our new sight word is the
We will wrap up our unit on characters this week. We have had some really good work with identifying realistic fiction vs fantasy, retelling important events from stories, and making inferences about characters based on clues from the text.

Math
This week we will work on identifying one less in numbers up to 10. We will finish unit 1 on Wednesday and take the chapter test on Friday. There is no math homework on Thursday.

This week we have our first student of the week, Holden. The student of the week will take home a poster to decorate before their week, and share the poster on Monday morning. During the week the class writes letters to our student of the week. These will be displayed in the classroom with the poster.

Thanks for reading, everyone! Please don't hesitate to contact me with questions or concerns.