REMINDERS!

Spelling Review tomorrow!

Check out the attached October
Newsletter!
It can also be found on the blog!
Pay attention to the frst page where
you will fnd many important dates for the
month.
Reading/Theme/Handwriting
* The Scholastic News we read this week all
about Fire Prevention Week beginning
Sunday
* The book On The Town and learning about
my place on a map by reading the book Me
On The Map
* How I would fnd my place starting with
planet Earth and ending with me
* Working on the uppercase letters F, E, D,
P, R, B, N and M
Math
* The Two- Fisted Penny Grab activity and fnding
pairs of numbers that add up to 10 (1 and 9, 2 and
8, 3 and 7 etc.)
* Doing my frst math box pages and how these are for
practicing the math skills I am learning in class
* Telling time to the hour- why is telling time
important, what do we call the two hands on the
clock (small hour hand and long, strong minute
hand)
* The penny- who is on the head and tails side of the
coin, what is it made of, and how do I write its value
two different ways
Phonics and Spelling
* The hunks and chunks I have learned:
sh, ch, th, ing
* Spelling some words for you with those
hunks and chunks in them
* Playing Word Wall games- Magical Word
and BINGO- what are they and how do you
play
* Nouns- can I remember the chant? Person,
Place, Animal, Thing (say this 3 times
while clapping) Something you can touch, a
NOUN!
* Proper Nouns- what is the difference?
* A word that has ing in its root word
(string), when ing is a suffx (helping),
and when it is both (singing)
* Suffxes- You take a root word (fsh). You
put the suffx at the end. That makes
fshing instead of fsh.
* The Haunted Phonics Dance and ask me
to say the Skeleton poem for you for letter
s
Other
* Centers- what are they and what activities
have you been doing in them (Magnet
letters, Poetry, Make 10, Word Chains,
Listening Center, etc)
* Raz Kids in the Computer Lab- what is it,
what do I do on it and can I do it at
home?!
* Alexandras Star of the Week (last week)
and Annies Star of the Week (this week)
and the letter I wrote to each of them (it
is included- help me to see what I did well
and what I need to work on!)
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