EARLY RELEASE DAY: Wednesday, Oct. 28th is ERD! Dismissal is at 12:45.
RED RIBBON WEEK ACTIVITIES
This week is Red Ribbon Week. We will talk about a healthy life style, eating healthy, exercising, and staying away from all the harmful things that could hurt our bodies. As a whole school, we will do a different activity each day to show our support for a healthy and happy life.
Monday: Come to school in red! Wear as many red items as you can!
Tuesday: Wear your Super Hero shirt.
Wednesday: Wear your Caraway Owl shirt.
Thursday: Wear crazy hats or socks.
Friday: Wear your pajamas!
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders every Wednesday morning.
Please make sure you check your child’s Daily Folder each night and initial the day to show me you saw the information.
Wednesday: No Library this week.-Early Release Day
Friday: Math and Reading homework does not need to be returned.
HOMEWORK
Reading Homework: Explore and read the "Time For Kids" pumpkin magazine. Look for elements of nonfiction text. Do you see headings? Page numbers? Diagrams? A table of contents? Complete the sequence activity on the back page. This does not need to be turned in.
Math Homework: Look for a math game in the Tuesday folder. Play this game practicing time to hour. Match the analog clock, digital clock and time. Keep this game to practice at home.
This week:
READING
We have been learning about the features of Nonfiction/Expository texts and this week in the spirit of the month of October and Halloween, we will be focusing on spider books! We will be asking questions about spiders, think about information that we already know, and find new information or hopefully, the answers to our questions in non-fiction texts. The kids love this unit! We will become experts on spiders by the end of the week, and your child should be able to tell you some very interesting facts about spiders.
WRITING
This week we will shift our writing from small moments/personal narratives and learn to write other ways: we will learn to write like scientists. Scientists have very attentive lives, noticing interesting things, and recording what they see. We will draw and sketch, but this time emphasize on the importance of capturing details with precision. As we research and learn facts about spiders, we will record and write these facts so we can teach others about these amazing arachnids.
MATH
This week we will introduce place value. We will use number tracks and make numbers using our 10 sticks (10 blocks) and ones. We will emphasize that the place of a digit in a number matters. Depending on where the digit is, in tens place or in ones place, the digit has a different value (example: compare 17 and 71). So far, we have worked with teen numbers. This week we will work with 2 digit numbers greater than teens. When studying 24, we will see that 2 is 2 sets/groups of 10 which makes twenty and the 4 is just four ones. When comparing the numbers, we will think about both tens and ones in a number. 24 is greater than 22. The number of 10 sticks are the same but the ones are not. 24 has 4 ones and 22 has only 2 ones. We will emphasize the vocabulary such as greater than, less than, before and after.