October 23-27

All parents are invited to stay and partake in the annual U.N. Day celebration here at school on Friday, Oct. 27^th. This is a very fun and exciting day for all, where parents and children get together to learn about new cultures. This is also a half day. All students will be going home at 11:45 a.m on this day.

Dress Up / Costume  Day  is  around  the corner. We are going to be having a celebration on Tuesday, October 31^st. On this day students will come to school dressed up as their favorite book, or movie character. 

We will also be trick or treating around school. Please send in one bag of candies, lollipops, chocolates or any small treats or toys by Tuesday October 24th. Children should bring their own basket for this activity

This week we will be learning about United Nations. We will be learning about the WFP (World Food Program), UNICEF and UNESCO. If you have anything related to these organizations, we would really appreciate if you let us borrow them.

This week your child will be reviewing all the Word Wall words with various chants and activities. The spelling challenge will be on Friday October 27^th. It would be our first activity for the day.

This week we will be introducing the following sight words:

number

no

way

could

people

Please make sure your child can recognize ALL of the following sight words.

the	of	and	a	to
in	is	you	that	it
he	was	for	on	are
as	with	his	they	I
at	be	this	have	from
or	one	had	by	words
but	not	what	all	were
we	when	your	can	said
there	use	an	each	which
she	do	how	their	if
will	up	other	about	out
many	then	them	these	so
some	her	would	make	like
him	into	time	has	look
two	more	write	go	see

This week your child will continue working on learning addition strategies such as adding in any order, counting on, adding doubles, adding doubles plus one /doubles minus one, making ten, adding ten.

Addition strategies

E.4   Add using doubles plus one

E.5   Add using doubles minus one

This week we will continue writing Personal Narratives. The children will be writing about a special day they remembered.

In Science we will continue having fun with our unit Light and Sound. Last week the children had fun on a Listening Walk activity around the school. You may want to ask them about it. They had a blast. This week the children will be doing their own kazoo with toilet paper tubes to discover how vibrations create sound waves that travel through the air to your ear.