IMPORTANT DATES FOR FAMILIES TO REMEMBER:
Tuesday 10/24-Thursday 11/2: Fall Conferences - Click HERE if you have not already signed up for a fall conference.
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
Wednesday 11/22: Early Release - NOON dismissal
Thursday 11/23-Friday 11/24: NO SCHOOL - Thanksgiving
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:
Thank you!
Thank you so much to all of the families who have donated books from our wish list; we are overwhelmed by your generosity! Your donations make our classroom library stronger and directly benefit all of the students in our classroom community.
Pumpkins and Gourds
Thank you so much to the families who sent in pumpkins and gourds! We have a traditional orange pumpkin, a pumpkin with green "warts", a white pumpkin, a green pumpkin and assorted mini gourds. We are looking for 4 more volunteers to bring in 1 large gourd each. I noticed recently that they have them at Roche Brothers outside on the sidewalk. If you would be willing to donate one to the class, please reply all and describe what you are planning to bring in. We will be exploring these on Halloween with our 4th grade buddies. Will the insides of these diverse pumpkins and gourds be similar or different...wait and see! Thanks in advance!
REMINDERS FOR FAMILIES:
Check and update your child's student info on Skyward: In a few of my recent attempts to contact families via information in Skyward (the system that we use to store student contact information and how you view your child's report card), I have noticed some incomplete information, such as only one phone number for contact. We use this when trying to reach families and may need to reach you quickly in an emergency. Please log into Skyward to check and update your contact information. If you know how to log in and are familiar with the system, click HERE. If you would like to watch a short video tutorial about Skyward to further familiarize yourself with the system, click HERE. Thank you!
Wishlist: I’ll be posting 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...
- the bubble assembly!
- mean teasing vs. playful teasing...When does playful teasing become mean teasing?What I would do if I witness mean teasing?
- any meaningful text-to-self or text-to-text connections I made while reading this week
- closed syllable exceptions and spelling the words done, goes and pretty
- my small moment story or stories that I have written or am writing...what feelings or dialogue did I add to my story?
- fact families
- what do I know or wonder about the United States
LOOKING FORWARD:
Looking forward, we will:- discuss social inclusion and exclusion
- continue our reading work of practicing making text to self, text to text and text to world connections and tell how the connections we make help us better understand what we read.
- learn about suffixes (Click HERE for unit 4 family fundations letters.)
- continue strengthening our small moment stories through adding dialogue and playing around with our word choice
- wrap our addition and subtraction to 20 unit (but that's not the end of it...PLEASE PRACTICE FACTS AT HOME UNTIL YOUR CHILD IS FLUENT. Click HERE for a printable set of fact triangle flash cards to use at home. For an online games to practice facts to ten, click HERE. For an online game to practice facts to 20, click HERE. 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).
- delve into what maps and globes are and what we can learn from them
