Mark Your Calendar:

Week of November 29th>  Review Week:  ESGI Sight Word Assessments and a Listening Comprehension Test

Monday December 7th>  New Homework Folder will go home:  DUE THURSDAY, December 17th

Friday, December 11th>  Quick Check

Thursday, December 17th>  Homework Packet Due and Quick Check

Friday, December 18th> Half-Day  12:00 Dismissal

Schedule of Specials: 

Tuesday and Thursday (PE): children wear PE short and shirt with approved tennis shoes and plain white socks.  Light-Up shoes and socks with color/emblems are not allowed.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Spanish, music, guidance):   children wear regular uniforms (no PE).  Approved shoes and navy socks are required.  Tennis shoes are not to be worn on these days.  Belts are required if there are belt loops.  Hair accessories are limited to the colors found in the uniform.

Academic Themes for the Week

Topic: Gingerbread Man

Look for their Weekly Emergent Readers to go home on Fridays.  I encourage you to save these weekly emergent reader books in a special place:  a treasure box or special basket.  Whenever they want to pull out a story to read to you, they can select a story from their special story box.

Reading Block:    Capitalization & Punctuation; Blending Phonemes; Adjectives using Size and Shape; Writing a Complete Sentence; ASSESSING WRITING ALPHABET LETTERS (UPPERCASE AND LOWERCASE) AND NAME

Word Study:  Review letters Tt, Cc, Pp, Aa (long and short) and introduce /o/ word families

Writing:  continue to focus on proper sentence formation

Sight Words: Sight Word Review:  ESGI Assessments

Math Block: identify dimes, trade 10 pennies for a dime, compare events according to duration of time, and count by 10’s; identify, create and extend ABB sound and movement patterns; count by dimes to 50 cents; pay for items to 50 cents using dimes; match a number to a set

Science/Social Studies/Art:  Needs VS Wants; Gingerbread Man;

Religion:   Advent and St. Nicholas

Enrichment

   THE FRIENDLY BEASTS will be a 2 week project.

Mad Scientist:

Foodie Fun Day: Gingerbread Man Hunt

To Work On At Home:

writing their name

correct letter and number formation (top to bottom, left to right)>Many are still struggling with this.

cutting with scissors

taking on and off their belt

Mark Your Calendar:

Friday, November 20> Quick Check and Homework Packet is DUE

Thanksgiving break:  Monday, November 23rd-Friday November 27th. Students return to school on Monday, November 30th.  *Be sure to continue to review the Unit Sight Words over the break!

Week of November 30th> Sight Word Assessments and a Listening Comprehension Assessment

December 7th> New Homework Folder goes home

Friday, December 11th> Quick Check

Thursday, December 17th> Quick Check and Homework Folder is DUE

Friday, December 18th>  Half-Day 12:00 Dismissal

Schedule of Specials: 

Tuesday and Thursday (PE): children wear PE short and shirt with approved tennis shoes and plain white socks.  Light-Up shoes and socks with color/emblems are not allowed.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Spanish, music, guidance):   children wear regular uniforms (no PE).  Approved shoes and navy socks are required.  Tennis shoes are not to be worn on these days.  Belts are required if there are belt loops.  Hair accessories are limited to the colors found in the uniform.

Academic Themes for the Week

Topic: Thanksgiving: Leaves are Falling 

Look for their Weekly Emergent Readers to go home on Fridays.  I encourage you to save these weekly emergent reader books in a special place:  a treasure box or special basket.  Whenever they want to pull out a story to read to you, they can select a story from their special story box.

Reading Block:    Capitalization & Punctuation; Blending Phonemes (CVC Words); Writing a Complete Sentence;

Word Study:  /i/ word families; Review Letter Pp

Writing: Adjectives for Numbers;   Informative Writing (writing what we know): Focus on formulating proper sentences

Sight Words: with    what    are    now

Math Block:  identify ordinal position and pay for items using pennies; identify a cube and count one-to-one correspondence; match a number card to a set; copy line segments, shapes, and designs on a geoboard; estimate collections and count by 10’s

Science/Social Studies/Art:  Thanksgiving Themes and Study

Religion:Being Thankful; What is Sin?; St. Kateri Tikawitha

Enrichment   

Mad Scientist:

Foodie Fun Day: TBD

To Work On At Home:

writing their name

correct letter and number formation (top to bottom, left to right)>Many are still struggling with this.

cutting with scissors

taking on and off their belt

Mark Your Calendar:

Thursday, November 12>  Picture Retakes Offered

Friday, November 13> Quick Check 

Schedule of Specials: 

Tuesday and Thursday (PE): children wear PE short and shirt with approved tennis shoes and plain white socks.  Light-Up shoes and socks with color/emblems are not allowed.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Spanish, music, guidance):   children wear regular uniforms (no PE).  Approved shoes and navy socks are required.  Tennis shoes are not to be worn on these days.  Belts are required if there are belt loops.  Hair accessories are limited to the colors found in the uniform

 

 

Academic Themes for the Week

Topic: Native Americans and Pumpkins

Look for their Weekly Emergent Readers to go home on Fridays.  I encourage you to save these weekly emergent reader books in a special place:  a treasure box or special basket.  Whenever they want to pull out a story to read to you, they can select a story from their special story box.

Reading Block:    Capitalization & Punctuation; Blending; Adjectives as Color Words; Writing a Complete Sentence

Word Study:   short /e/  word families introduced; Review letter Cc /k/

Writing:  Proper Sentence Structure: focus

Sight Words:  if   get   had   did

Math Block: name a shape piece using 2 attributes (shape and color); identify a missing piece in a matrix and describe a the relative position of objects; copy and identify AB and ABB patterns; explore geoboards by making shapes, describe and compare the shapes;  place an object on a real graph

Science/Social Studies/Art: Native American Culture (historical references to Thanksgiving) :variety of activities throughout the week

Religion:  God’s House: The Church

Enrichment 

Students will create a painting similar to how Little Gopher painted in the story : The Indian Paint Brush

Mad Scientist: 

Foodie Fun Day: 

To Work On At Home:

writing their name

correct letter and number formation (top to bottom, left to right)

cutting with scissors

taking on and off their belt

Mark Your Calendar:

Monday, November 2:  New Home Work Folder goes home

Tuesday, November 3:  ELECTION DAY

Friday, November 6: Quick Check

Schedule of Specials: 

Tuesday and Thursday (PE): children wear PE short and shirt with approved tennis shoes and plain white socks.  Light-Up shoes and socks with color/emblems are not allowed.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Spanish, music, guidance):   children wear regular uniforms (no PE).  Approved shoes and navy socks are required.  Tennis shoes are not to be worn on these days.  Belts are required if there are belt loops.  Hair accessories are limited to the colors found in the uniform

 

 

Academic Themes for the Week

Topic: Election

Look for their Weekly Emergent Readers to go home on Fridays.  I encourage you to save these weekly emergent reader books in a special place:  a treasure box or special basket.  Whenever they want to pull out a story to read to you, they can select a story from their special story box.

Reading Block:    Capitalization & Punctuation; Blending; Sensory Words; Adjectives; Writing a Complete Sentence

Word Study:   short /a/  word families continued; Review Letter Tt

Writing:  Proper Sentence Structure: focus

Sight Words:  of   he   for   she

Math Block:  identify numbers 0-10 and before, after and between; write and order money amounts to 10 cents; pay for items to 10 cents using pennies; copying patterns and identify an AB pattern; compare objects by weight (mass)

Science/Social Studies/Art: Election; Pumpkin life cycle and labeling parts

Religion:God’s House: The Church

Enrichment 

Mad Scientist:  Will my pumpkin sink or float?

Foodie Fun Day: 

To Work On At Home:

writing their name

correct letter and number formation (top to bottom, left to right)

cutting with scissors

taking on and off their belt