Hello Families!
I can't believe we're already in
October!
We have a few different areas of
focus this month that we'll continue working on over the next few weeks…
Literacy Skills
In literacy skills, we are working on
creative writing pieces as well as elaborating on our writing. In addition to
composing paragraphs about various real-life subjects in our writing folders
every day, we also write to thematic or picture writing prompts.
Math Skills
In math skills, we’ve been working on a
variety of things, including addition with regrouping, identifying fractions
using visual representations, and learning counting strategies that we can use
either with basic addition or when trying different upper-level math equations.
Life Skills
In life skills, we’ve started our
school-wide recycling program, which we use the profits from in order to
supplement our weekly cooking budget for our Friday cooking lesson. We have
plans to make cheese quesadillas, bagel pizzas, and homemade applesauce with
leftover apples from our school breakfasts in the next few weeks. Yum!
Science/Social Studies
In science, we're starting off learning
about the weather and how it affects our world. We're learning about a variety
of different types of weather, and how it changes the shape of our world. Once
we get rolling, we will start using our Chromebooks to make Powerpoint
presentations on our favorite topic related to our theme and then do
presentations in front of the class!
In
social studies, we are focusing on current events. We regularly watch student
news broadcasts and discuss the topics as a class. We are learning how to agree
and disagree appropriately so that later in the year we can do some class
debates J
Weekly Special Activities
Monday- APE
Tuesday-
Wednesday- Early Release and APE
Thursday- Shopping and Makerspace
Friday- APE, Library and Cooking
Important Dates
October 10th and 11th – Parent Teacher
Conferences
October 11th and 12th – No School
October 18th and 19th – Dental Sealants
at school
October 26th – PRIDE Assembly
November 8th – Choir Concert
November 9th – No School, Grading Day
November 12th – No School
November 16th – Picture Retakes
November 21st, 22nd, 23rd –
No School, Thanksgiving Break
