Litte Bulletin 9/22-10/3

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Upcoming Events:
NEXT THURSDAY AND FRIDAY the Little Blue Teachers will be at our APPLE training, so this newsletter will be covering this week and next week (BUT, we will have subs and your children will be very busy). We will resume newsletter when we come back from October break.

Project Cornerstone will kick-off next week. Please refer to the Press for details and the letter that goes home with the project. The theme this month is how to build positive friendships. We will talk about putting warm fuzzies in our buckets. Ask your child what a warm fuzzy is...

OCTOBER 5 through OCTOBER 19th is our break. We hope you all have a wonderful two weeks off. Make sure you keep reading over vacation.

PLEASE REFER TO THIS LINK AND KEEP TRACK OF ALL OF THE UPCOMING EVENTS!

The Little Blue Village Calendar

Sharing:
9/29: Some signs of fall!
10/4- 10/19:Vacation
10/20: Three Ways to Stay Healthy

How to prepare for sharing:
1. Tell us your topic
2. Prepare for one ending sentence
3. Make eye contact with classmates and teacher when talking

BOOK BAGS!!!
The book bags are coming home today! Please read the book with your child each night. It's important to reread books again and again. After reading the story several times, do the activity listed on the instruction sheet. The kinders have the directions on the yellow sheet and first graders have directions on the white sheet. On Wednesday night have your child put the journal, the book, and the instructions back into the bag so that it is ready to come back to school on Thursday morning. It is very important to the success of our program that book bags are returned each Thursday morning.

NOTE: There will be no book bags going home over the vacation. It would be a great time to visit your local library.

There will be no homework folders on Fridays due to the book bags.

Extra assignment:
Please visit your teacher's blog. With your parent's help, add your comment. We look forward to hearing from you.


Review of the week:
Language Arts:
We continued our new handwriting program--Hand Writing Without Tears. We are still working on holding our pencil correctly and starting letters/numbers at the top.
We are reviewing the following concepts in reading skills. It is helping us prepare for reading and spelling!

• short/long vowel sounds
• beginning letter sounds
• sight words
• rhyming words
• recalling facts while reading
  

The students are using their summary skills to describe what they learned. We read a Scholastic News on friendships and used the same skills to tell what we learned at our assembly called "Street Smarts." Please refer to the following colors to help you understand our color coding.

• green - Go! Topic Sentence
• yellow - Slow down. Add a detail
• green - Finish the paragraph

Fall has begun. This week and next we will be learning more about our changing seasons. Using our senses, we will write some poetry about fall.


Math:
We are continuing to work with numbers. We are practicing ways to count on, adding doubles (5 +5=10), and using various strategies to help us add and subtract.
We are practicing our new vocabulary:

• equal
• less than
• more than
• place value: tens, ones
• addend, sum
• number line
  

Science:
This week we built the life cycle of the apple. We started with a seed, and ended with the apple. The students were very curious about how the blossom turns into an apple. Hopefully we can help answer this question further as we start our pumpkin studies. Next week we will be learning about how a pumpkin grows. This will help us prepare for our upcoming field trip.


Special Events:
We had an assembly on staying safe when we our outside. Remember to always wear a bike helmet and cross in safe places. Ask your students what jaywalking means.




Thanks,
The Little Blue Teachers