Week of October 8-12, 2018

We had such a great week in Room 4!
 For those of you who missed the school announcements this morning, our Jog-a-Thon totals are in, and together we raised $94,000 to support the arts at Phoebe Hearst. For those who are new to our school, this is $15,000 more than last year, and nearly $50,000 more than 5 years ago. I am so lucky to teach and send my children to a school where we work so hard to give our kids enrichment programs. THANK YOU to all of the Room 4 families for your donations. We have 100% participation this year.

Congrats to our classroom's first Golden Dragon winner, Dylan!

Here is what we have coming up:

Important Dates

Thursday, 10/18 Jog-a-Thon prizes will go home with kids. Everyone is encouraged to wear their gear on Friday for run day!

Friday, 10/19: Jog-a-Thon day! Please come cheer us on as we run. I will send out the schedule as soon as I recieve it.

Wednesday, 10/24, 9:00-12:30 pumpkin patch field trip. Thanks to all our parent chaperones!
They are:
Lindsey Murawski
Abby Jaske
Nattana Lindsey
Theresa Barajas
Nate McGill
Rebecca Frazee
Julia O'Brien
Shayla Khan
Luana Cook
Janelle Reali
Panorea Avdis
Milt Apostolidis
Kate Alves
Cate Williams
Paula Turner

Please be in room 4 at 9:00 am to get your group and hop on the bus with us. We will eat lunch at the pumpkin patch, so parents please send all kids to school with a lunch from home that day.

Saturday, 10/27: PH Harvest Festival. Thanks to Kate Alves for organizing our class booth and to everyone who signed up to help that day!

Wednesday, 10/31: Free dress/wear orange and black. We do NOT wear costumes to school. We will have a small celebration that day 11:35-12:30. If you'd like to come in and help please let me or Kate Alves know.

Language Arts
This week we will wrap up our first comprehension unit on rules at school and at home. We will read a story this week and compare it to last week's informational text.
We will continue to work on letter sounds and shapes. Our focus will be Aa (short and long sounds)
Our new sight word is like.

Math
This week we continue working on numbers to 10. Kids will work on finding pairs that are "hiding" within larger numbers, like 5 and 3 making 8.

Science
This week we focus on the parts and lifecycle of pumpkins as we prepare for our field trip at the end of the month.

Today we had our first music lesson with Mrs. Toone. Photo below :)

Thanks for reading! Have a great weekend!