October 15-19

Our field trip is Friday! We will be outside exploring at Heckrodt; please dress your child accordingly.

We are still collecting socks for Kid President's Socktober!   Please send in new pairs of socks you wish to donate by October 31!  Our school goal is to collect 500 pair as a school to donate to Homeless Connections of Appleton.

Upcoming Events: 
10/19:  Heckrodt and Fire Station Field Trip--Please send back form if you have not already done so!
10/25&10/26: NO SCHOOL

Reading: As we wrap up our "Old Favorite" books unit, students will be acting out the books that they know and love! We will start the week off by creating puppets and thinking carefully about how those characters look, act, and feel. Then, we will think about where the story takes place and create settings. Readers are encouraged to think about the problem in the story and how it is resolved in the end when acting out. Acting out stories is a great way for early readers to develop comprehension skills.

Writing: Wow! The Kindergartners have been LOVING our new writing unit. They are so motivated to write about things they love. This week, writers will be encouraged to try their best to write words on the page, even if they know the words are not spelled exactly right! They will also work with writing partners to make their writing even better by asking questions and adding more. Finally, we will decorate pumpkins and write about our pumpkins.  The pumpkins were donated by a Kindergarten family...Thank you! If you are able to donate any foam stickers or fun things to decorate our pumpkins with, we would appreciate it! Please send donations to school by Wednesday.

Math:  At the end of the week, students will take the unit 1 assessment. As a culmination of this unit's big ideas, mathematicians will be rotating through centers based on adding and subtracting, subitizing, number order, and number identification.  Here are some pictures of what the centers will look like:

This bingo game support subitizing. Click here to download. 

A great way to practice number identification.
Click here to download. 

Social Studies: Students will finish our centers to dig even deeper and apply the knowledge they gained about our school helpers and school community. Later in the week, we will read about maps to figure out what they are and why we use them. Finally, groups of students will illustrate one room of our school and we will put them together to create a large map.