Fall Fun!

This week we will be finishing up our first week of Unit 3 – we are having some great discussions about rules that we have to follow in different places! We will also be reading some great fall and Halloween books this week. Many of my friends celebrate Halloween so we will talk about some of their traditions. On Friday we will be having a little Fall Fun in the afternoon where we will get to play some fun games and make a fun snack – hopefully the weather continues to be nice so we can play them outside! If there are any parents that are able to help out during the games please let me know – I would need you from about 12:30-2. Please just let me know so I know how many helpers I have! :)

During writing last week we met the CAPS man who helps us remember some important rules of writing and we also got to read a funny story called “Caps For Sale” and the kids loved it and begged for me to read it again. I told them that if we started using conventions during writing we might just be able to read it again! This week we will continue to talk about the importance of adding details to our stories and also reviewing how turtle talk can help us spell words we don’t know how to spell.  It is amazing to see the sentences that the kids are writing – I promise you would be impressed!

On Friday we had our all school assembly and got to watch a few videos that helped us get fired up about making good choices and living a healthy drug free life! We will continue to work on our drug free books this week. We will talk about who can give us medicine and the different kinds of medicine that the doctors or parents might give us. We will also talk about things we can do instead of doing drugs. This week is Red Ribbon Week and everyday we will wear our red ribbons and we are also asked to wear a different color to show our support.

Mon. – Oct. 27^th  – wear red – to be bold and say NO to drugs

Tues. – Oct. 28^th  – wear purple - to remember the pledge we say everyday on making good choices

Wed. – Oct. 29^th  – wear green – to help us grow up healthy and strong

Thurs. – Oct. 30^th – wear yellow – to see the light that comes from making good choices

Fri. – Oct. 31^st – wear Meadow Lane colors because we will stand together as a school and say NO to drugs

In Math we will continue to tell addition and subtraction story problems and act them out when we can. We will also practice making the number 9 and have fun creating and extending patterns. This week we will also be using a new manipulative during counting mats to help us see numbers 1-10. Ms. Carli will be teaching us a lesson on Thursday that focuses on patterns. Here are a few pictures of things we have been working on during counting mats… we love making numbers with our square inch tiles and with pennies and five groups!