Week of Oct. 29

Upcoming Events:

J November 4: Daylight Savings Time (Fall Back 1 hr.)
J November 14: 2 hr. Early Out
J November 21: 1 hr. Early Out
J November 22 and 23: No School, Thanksgiving Break
Notes:
J Thank you to the parents that attended their child’s conference.  Your involvement is important to your child. 
JOur new word work activities this week include making words with pipe cleaners, scrabble, and some literacy games.
JOur testing strategy that we worked on this week was
-Listen carefully each time your teacher reads directions.  The directions may change.
Things to Work on:
JSequencing a book by beginning, middle, and end.
What we have been up to:
Reading: Our theme this week was helping out.  We read The Little Red Hen and talked about the main idea, no one wanted to help Hen.  We spent time working with our word families: -eg,-en, and –et. 
Math: In math we have started talking about subtracting with nickels and pennies.  We have learned to complete a story problem in steps.  First, figure out how much money.  Second, subtract the coins. 
Science: We have started our new unit in science about animals.  We have talked about mammals and their characteristics.  We were also able to do a book search and list characteristics of birds.