Friday October 2th

Important Information/Dates:

-Check Google Classroom for additional resources/websites/ideas to support your child.

-November 8th last day before fall break, classes resume November 15th

-Thursday November 2nd class photos and retake photo day

-See message below from Mr. Strand regarding Halloween.  It's the same message that was in the Weekly Connect:

Recognizing Halloween at EHS

Halloween is often an exciting time for young children that take part in dressing up and trick or treating in the evening. It can be a fun opportunity for children to share a bit of their personality to wear their costumes at school, however, at the risk of sounding like the “fun police”, our primary purpose is learning. 

On Tuesday, October 31, if your child is invited to wear their costume at school for the morning. (PM Kindergarten children are obviously welcome to wear their costume during their regular classes) We please ask that all costumes are appropriate for an elementary school setting, including no masks in order for learners to learn and for us to see faces, and no violent themed costumes, accessories or weapons. Children will need to be able to take off their costumes at lunchtime and store them with their school bag. 

We also ask that you do not send any treats to school for handing out to other students, and please ask in the school days after Halloween you please limit the number of treats that are sent to school - increased sugar does not usually equal optimal school working conditions!

Thank you in advance for your support and we hope all families that head out trick or treating have a safe, fun time!

Our Week:

Literacy:  Ask your child about The Wild Robot read aloud

Math: Mrs. Pelton continues to work with the grade 1's on skip counting by 2's, 5's and 10's to 20.  By skip counting, they are creating groups to count.  Ms. Disher's grade 2 math group is using coins to skip count to 100 and beyond.  We are currently working on counting by quarters/25 and learning to skip count in new ways.  For example, you don't always have to count by 2's starting at 2-try skip counting by 2's starting at 3.

Writing: Both groups are working on writing stamina-working on writing the whole time and starting right away.  We continue to work on how to plan our ideas using pictures.  For example, planning out our ideas using 4 pictures or 1 big picture.

Reading:  We have started some guided reading groups to work on reading in addition to our daily literacy groups where we work on phonics and phonemic awareness.  Both groups are participating in a class read aloud of The Wild Robot.  Ask your child what has happened so far and who the main character is.  We did a guided drawing yesterday of the main character, Roz.

Have a fantastic weekend!