The Week of October 29th

Hopefully we will not be flooded out! This week brings the end of October. We will review owls, spiders and bats and write an opinion piece about them. We will continue with Halloween stories and legends and talk about a pumpkin's life cycle. In math we will be learning about time to the half hour and begin "frames and arrows" We will also pop popcorn near the end of the week as we begin to talk about matter. We are also beginning a unit on families. Please help your child with their posters and return them by Friday. Our spelling words for this week are: an fan, can, had, sad, bad, find, all, look, book Bonus words are: spider, family and popcorn.

The Week of October 22nd

This week is Red Ribbon Week. Fun activities are planned throughout the week. Refer to the notice sent home as to what theme is for each day. We will be starting our first hard cover book in our Scott Foresman reading series. Students brought home their old practice book to keep. In math we are learning about odd and even numbers and counting on the number line. We are practicing adding to 9. Spelling starts this week. The words for this week are: at, cat, sat, ran, an, man, will, no, dad, mom Bonus Words are: owl, leaves and pumpkin Our 10 new word wall words are: come, down, away, no, will, all, are, find, make and play.

The Week of October 15th

This week will begin with a visit from the Oxford Fire Department. If you haven't sent in your child's permission slip for the presentation, please do so. We will be studying different ways to prevent fires and family fire drills. On Tuesday we will meet our student teacher, Miss Humes. Miss Humes comes to us from East Stroudsburg University. This week will be the end of Unit 1 in our Scott Foresman reading series. Starting next week we will have spelling words and 10 new word wall words every other week. This will continue for the rest of the year. In math we will be starting Unit 3. It begins with patterns and even and odd numbers.

The Week of October 8th

Don't forget that school is closed on Monday, October 8th. Enjoy the day. Last week the class was thrilled by our dog visitors. Students read books to their new four legged friends. The dogs will visit us again on Oct. 24th. Our theme this week will be on trees and fall. On Friday we will learn about Christopher Columbus. In math we will continue with counting money. On Friday we will have a quiz of addition facts to 7.