November News

Reading:  The children are learning about different reading strategies to use when they come to a word they don’t know.  They include chunky-monkey (breaking a word into chunks), lips the fish (getting our mouth ready to say the sounds), slippery snake (saying all the sounds in the word), eagle eye (studying the picture for a clue) and wise owl (what would make sense?).  We will be revisiting these strategies often and will add more as we go through the school year.  The children are also learning about the short vowel sounds.  This week we add the –ck sound. 

Math:  The children are studying odd/even numbers and number patterns (all the 2 counts are even, all the 5 counts end with 5 or 0, etc.)  Also this month, the children will learn about time to the half hour and add the dime to our money counting.

Writing: Each of the children has chosen a story to revise and we will be finishing that this week.  We’ve talked about having a space between words and when to use a capital letter.  The children are also revising to add details to either the picture or words.  We’ve been writing small moments (a true story about the child) and will move into writing about realistic fiction.
 

Thank you for helping with sending in coins the past few weeks.  Our class came in second place with a total of $287.81 collected.  Overall, our elementary collected $2643.27 for World Hunger Relief!  Amazing!

 

Halloween Party:  The children had fun at our party even though we weren’t able to parade downtown.  We did get to walk through most of the middle school and part of the high school and finished up by walking through the 4^th grade “wax museum.”  When we returned to our classroom, the children changed out of their costumes and enjoyed their snacks and a Franklin Halloween video.  Enjoy the pictures of our class below.  (these will be in color on the class blog.  Go to the school web page – www.mcbain.org, click on elementary staff pages and click on my name)

 

 

 

 

October Students of the Week:

Xavier R., Lydia T. L., Leah T. and Jadyn H.