Sunday, October 26th

So, the Creature Café is Open!  And we have had a great week!

The Creature Cafe offers "food", games, fun and LOTS of learning!  There are opportunities for role-playing, creative writing, practicing math skills, poetry, and much more.

Daily Five

Next week, we will work on identifying the main idea and supporting details of reading selections.  And, BATS will be our context!   We will read non-fiction selections and talk about the important facts presented.  (We will also enjoy some fiction books that use bats as wonderful characters!)  We are also writing stories using descriptive words to describe the Halloween characters in our writing.

AND….

We are building equations!!!! We are looking at number partners, using models and drawings to find the totals.  

We are also counting nickels and pennies!  Ask your first grader if he/she is finding the total by “counting all” or “counting on”?

PICTURES, PUMPKINS, AND PICNIC (IN THAT ORDER!)

If you haven’t sent your picture order or submitted it on-line, do so by Monday. If you placed your order on-line, please send  a copy of receipt to school on Monday.

We will have school pictures made on Monday, October 27^th  at 10:20, followed by pumpkin carvings. (Feel free to send a shirt to put over “picture clothes” for pumpkin carving.)  Weather permitting, we will have our picnic lunch at 11:30. (If it is rainy, we will enjoy our lunch in the classroom.) Please send a towel for the picnic.  Join us if you can!  Just check in at the office.