Week of October 20-24, 2014

Hello Room 4 families,
We have had a busy week reading and learning about pumpkins and how they grow, We even planted pumpkin seeds! We are ready for next week's field trip to the pumpkin patch.

Here is what we have coming up:

Important Dates:
Thursday, October 23: Field Trip to Dave's Pumpkin Patch in West Sac. We will be taking the bus. Thank you to everyone who sent in permission slips and money for the trip. Parents who volunteered to come with us, look for an email from me early next week about the trip. As a reminder, this is a uniform day. We will be eating lunch at the pumpkin patch, so it's important for all kids to bring a lunch that day. Also, please send your child to school in shoes that will be ok walking through a pumpkin patch!

Friday, October 24: Room 4 to work in the school garden, 8:45-9:30. Thank you to the parents who volunteered to help that day. We will see you at 8:45!

Saturday, October 25: Harvest Festival, 3:00-6:30. This is a fun event for the whole family, and an easy way to earn parent hours. Please email our fabulous room parents Heather or Carolyn if you would like to help with the Room 4 booth. Wristbands and tickets can be purchased in front of the office before and after school.

Friday, October 31: Free Dress Day (no costumes!); school jog-a-thon. In order to be eligible for prizes, envelopes with pledges need to be returned by Friday 10/17 (today!!)

Monday, November 10: Picture day--more info to follow.

Tuesday, November 11: Veterans' Day; no school

Thursday, November 13-Friday, November 21: Parent/Teacher conferences; shortened day schedule. Kindergarteners are dismissed to the cafeteria on these days at 11:50, where they can either be picked up or eat lunch until 12:20 and then be picked up. I will be sending an email about scheduling your parent/teacher conferences early next week.

Monday, November 24-Friday, November 28: Thanksgiving Holiday; NO SCHOOL

Language Arts
Letter focus: Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz
New sight words: big, have, small
This week we will practice counting spoken words in sentences and putting words in order. We will begin counting syllables in spoken words and talking about how usually words with more syllables are longer words.
We will begin a writing piece on how we get ready for school in the morning. This will be the first time we go through the writing process: brainstorming, planning, drafting, revising, proofreading, publishing.

Math
We are working on numbers 6-10. By the end of this chapter kids should be able to count objects to and write independently numbers 6-10.

Science:
We are continuing to learn about pumpkins this week. The kids will be reading and writing about the lifecycle of pumpkins.

Thanks for reading, everyone!
Please email or stop by if you have questions or concerns. carrie.relles@gmail.com