In the swing of things...

I hope you had a good long weekend (if you were lucky enough to get one).  The kids had loads of great stories to share this morning.

This week will be a full regular week.  We have almost mastered the first three portions of The Daily Five; Read to Self, Read to Someone, and Work on Writing.  We will be learning how to Listen to Reading, and do Word Work in more detail over the next couple of weeks.

We also started Story Mapping this past week.  Here's a visual of some of the elements we have been working on.

In Science we are working at learning the months of the year.  Here are a couple pictures from our books.

Math lessons are going well for both grade ones and twos.  Grade 1s are focusing on learning to represent numbers with pictures, numbers and words.  Grade 2s are working with numbers to 100, with a focus on odd and even right now.

Next week is Halloween!  We will be having a Halloween party in the classroom.  Students are welcome to bring a costume along to school to wear for the school parade in the afternoon.  Please send a costume that students can easily put on themselves.  Also, please do not send masks to school, we would like to be able to see their faces.  I will put together a sign up sheet for party food/drinks and post it outside the classroom in the next couple of days.

The latest Scholastic flyer is full of Christmas Gift ideas.  If you ever place an order as a gift and need me to deliver it to you directly please just put a note with the order and I will make sure I don't put it in the hands of your child.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let me know!