Week of October 28-November 1, 2013

Hello Room 4 families
We've had a great week in Room 4. The kids loved the pumpkin patch. Thank you to all the parent volunteers who came with us.

Here is what we have coming up:

Monday, October 28-Friday, November 1: Kids Can Food Drive.  Please support hungry families by bringing in canned and non-perishable food items next week.

Thursday, October 31: Black and orange spirit day (no costumes)

Monday, November 4: Art lesson, 10-10:45 am. We would love to have 2-3 parent or grandparent volunteers for this. Please let me know if you'd like to help out.

Monday, November 11: Veterans' Day Holiday. No school

Friday, 11/15: Art lesson, 10:15-11:00am.We would love to have 2-3 parent or grandparent volunteers for this. Please let me know if you'd like to help out. 

Friday, 11/22: Art lesson, 10:15-11:00am.We would love to have 2-3 parent or grandparent volunteers for this. Please let me know if you'd like to help out. 

Friday, November 15-Friday, November 22: shortened days for parent/teacher conferences. Please note kindergarteners are dismissed on these days at 12:20 from the cafeteria. I walk them to lunch at 11:50, and you can pick them up there.
If you haven't signed up for a conference day and time, please do so. The schedule/sign-up sheet is posted in the back of Room 4.

Friday, November 22: Picture Day

Monday, November 25-Friday, November 29: Thanksgiving Holiday; no school.

Language Arts:
This week we will continue to work on rhyming words and listening for word changes in short rhymes. We will work on counting the number of words in sentences and figuring out which word in a pair is the longer word. These skills are all precursors to reading.
New sight words: it, no, and this.
We will finish up reading and learning about shadows and how they change.

Math:
This week we will work on comparing and ordering numbers to 10. We will take the chapter tests on numbers to 10 and begin our next chapter on graphs.

We are almost out of hand sanitizer. If you'd like to donate some to room 4, please send it to school with your child or drop it off in the back of the classroom. Thank you!

Thanks for reading!
Have a great weekend.