IMPORTANT DATES FOR FAMILIES TO REMEMBER:
Tuesday 10/24-Thursday 11/2: Fall Conferences - Thank you to those with whom I have met already. It has been wonderful to share your child's growth this year and discuss ways that you can share in this learning at home. If we have not already met, I look forward to seeing you next week. If you have not already done so, please email me your questions, concerns, or lack thereof.
Thursday, 11/2: Early Release - 12:30 dismissal
Friday, 11/10: NO SCHOOL - Veteran's Day
Monday 11/13-Friday 11/17: Book Fair @ M-S
- Monday, 11/13 - 10:40-11:00: Book Fair Preview We will be previewing the school book fair on 11/13. After our preview, your child should come home with a written or mental list of books that s/he would be interested in purchasing at our book fair.
- Wednesday 11/15 from - 1:20-1:40: Book Fair Classroom Visit - This is our time to purchase books at the school book fair. If you and your child choose to purchase books at the book fair, please send in your child's money on this day in an envelope labeled with your child's name, my name (Ms. E-J) and book fair $. If you are able to join us during this time, please let me know. It would be much appreciated.
Wednesday 11/22: Early Release - NOON dismissal
Thursday 11/23-Friday 11/24: NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving
Wednesday, 11/29 - 6:30-8:30: Responsive Home Workshop - Are you struggling with behaviors at home? The Social and Emotional Learning Department of the Newton Public Schools will be sponsoring Responsive Home Workshops for families to help you create a calm, supportive and encouraging environment at home. This workshop goes hand in hand with the Responsive Classroom work that we are doing in the classroom. My husband and I attended one of these workshops last year and it was definitely 2 hours well spent! We left with a concrete plan for how to tackle our most tricky times as home (such as setting up morning routines that work for everyone or how to agree on what "clean" means when we say, "Please go clean your room."). If you can't make it on 11/29, there are 3 other dates this year. Click HERE for more information. I would HIGHLY recommend that you try to attend one of these workshops. If you do attend and you would be willing recommend attendance to others, please email me your thoughts so that I can post in future newsletters. Thanks!
Friday, 12/1: Integrating the Arts Morning (8:30-9:15)-
Here is info about the morning from our amazing art teacher, Ms. E:
- Come to Integrating the Arts Morning where you will be able to have a firsthand experience with your child's class as you learn through the arts! Memorial Spaulding is proud to be an arts integrated school where teachers strive to integrate the arts to engage students in writing, reading, science, social studies, math and more.
- Join our art teacher, Alexandra Etscovitz in the auditorium at 8:30 as she will share how arts integration has blossomed at our school, and then from 8:45-9:15, you will be welcomed into your child's classroom to learn through the arts!
IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES:
Pumpkins and Gourds
Thank you so much to the families who sent in pumpkins and gourds! They have decorated our classroom this month and we have been able to observe their outsides. On Tuesday, with our 4th grade buddies, we will hopefully be working in small groups to explore the insides and develop strategies to count the seeds efficiently. However, in order to do this, we need your help: WE NEED 8 MORE LARGE PUMPKINS! If you would be willing to donate one to the class, please reply all to share that you will bring one in on Monday. Thanks in advance!
REMINDERS FOR FAMILIES:
Facts to 20 practice at home: We are wrapping up our addition and subtraction math facts to 20 unit. While we will continue to work on fact fluency within 20 at school, I ask that you also extend this practice to home. Here are the fact practice resources that I shared last week:
4. If you find any other ways that you and your child are enjoying math fact practice, please share so that I can share with our classroom community. Thank you!
Wishlist: Thank you for your support with our wish list! I will continue to post items to our classroom wish list when there is a specific need or wish that would help enhance learning in our classroom. The items posted will likely change throughout the year, but for now they are mostly books that will enrich our classroom’s independent reading and read aloud libraries. If you are curious, you’ll always be able to find it through our classroom’s Sign Ups page. Click HERE to go there.
ASK ME ABOUTS:
Ask me about...
- whose birthday we celebrated on Friday
- my thoughts on leaving people out on purpose
- any meaningful text-to-self, text-to-text, or text-to-world connections or predictions I made while reading this week...discuss these while reading at home as well when reading to your child
- base words and suffixes...we have learned the suffixes s, es, ed, ing, er, est...How do these suffixes change the meaning of the base word?
- my small moment story or stories that I have written or am writing...how did I work on my word choice or adding details so that my reader could really visualize my story?
- number talks
- what I know about the American Flag
LOOKING FORWARD:
Looking forward, we will:- hopefully explore pumpkins with our 4th grade buddies (see the Pumpkins and Gourds section above for how you can help)
- discuss when it is important to seek adult help with social matters
- continue our reading work of practicing making predictions, visualizing and discussing story elements
- continue learning about base words and suffixes (Click HERE for unit 4 family fundations letters.)
- continue strengthening our small moment stories through showing feelings and writing a strong conclusion
- begin a new unit on
- continue to explore maps and globes and find where we are on the map, starting from our planet and working our way down to our classroom.
