Happy Halloween!

That’s right, MEAP testing is over! That means that it will be back to our regular routine. Thank you to everyone once again for all of your support with the testing the last couple of weeks. Your kindness and encouragement helped make the children more confident and ready to do their best.
Language Arts: We are finishing the read aloud “Because of Winn-Dixie”. In the book Opal asks her dad to tell her 10 things about her mom, so we made a list of 10 things about each of us. This is a beautiful story of how a lonely and sad girl turns everything around once she meets a dog that she names Winn-Dixie.
We also continue to read AR books and take tests. Just a reminder, the children may read these books at home and at school. I am trying to encourage the kids to take at least one test a week. We discussed how exposing ourselves to different types of literature can help expand our vocabulary, increase our fluency, improve comprehension, and it can also show us different ways to write our own stories!
We also started doing text talk this week. We read a story and pull vocabulary words out and trying to incorporate them into our everyday speak. This week’s words are obedient, misconception, and despair.
Math: We have been focusing mostly on number stories, addition and subtraction practice, patterning, split sums algorithm and count up subtraction method. You may remember it as carrying and borrowing. This can be a difficult concept for the children. Please don’t be alarmed, it takes practice
Science: We are finishing our living things unit. Believe it or not, we still have 3 crayfish out of 4 living! Their names are Darth Vader, R2D2, and Rocky. They are all quite feisty but have been great pets. I hope everyone has seen the flower homework that came home last week. This is due on November 2nd.

Dates to Remember:
October
28 Halloween party.

Agenda:
1:40-2 All school recess
2-2:15 get into costumes
2:15-2:30 All School Costume Parade
* Parent set up for party during parade
2:30-3:10 Classroom party
3:10–3:30 Clean up & Kids get ready to leave

November
9th-10th Parent/Teacher Conferences. Look for slips to come home today
11th No school.

23-25 No school, Thanksgiving.

Please feel free to contact me at any time with questions, comments, or concerns. Have a great week!