Caraway is looking forward to exciting October events.
SCIENCE NIGHT
Thursday, Oct 16 @ 6:00 PM-We have hot air balloons, computers to take apart, engines to explore, lava lamps to make, and much, much more.... And in order to do all this, we need volunteers on Thursday, October 16th. Come have fun with the Caraway community. No training or science know-how required. Just go to http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0e45aaaf292-science1 and sign up to volunteer. Thank you!
HARVEST FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 25th: Harvest Festival -There are many volunteer positions to be filled. Please consider taking just one hour of time to volunteer in different stations in order to ensure the kids can have the best experience possible.
Harvest Fest is one of the biggest PTA fundraisers of the year. It is also an afternoon of fun for kids of all ages. Please keep in mind that adults are not required to purchase a wristband.
Hope to see you all there!
VOLUNTEERS
Thank you parent volunteers. My October volunteers are busy helping in so many ways. Please remember that all volunteers must complete the volunteer application and that any field-trip chaperon must be an approved volunteer.
The Volunteer Application is easy to find. Simply go to roundrockisd.org/volunteer
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning.
Wednesday: Library Day! All library books are due by 8:00.
Thursday: Science Night at 6:00 PM
Friday: Homework is due.
First grade will be busy this week learning...
READING
This week we will read expository/non-fiction books. Writers of expository books are experts in an area and therefore they write to teach us about that subject. We will learn that the purpose of reading expository books is to get information. We might have questions before reading a non-fiction book, or questions during reading the non-fiction book, or even after reading it. These questions will help us to read more and find out more. We will learn about the features of non-fiction such as: table of contents, index, glossary, real photos, labels, and captions.
WRITING
We will continue revising our stories this week. We are learning to reread our stories to make sure that our stories make sense. In the process, we are learning to add words or take away words to make our stories better. We are checking for the correct spelling of sight words, neat writing and correct punctuation. Some of us are even adding dialogues in quotation marks to make our stories more interesting. I am so proud of my young writers!
MATH
This week we will use a hundreds chart and count on strategies to explore numbers. A hundreds chart is a bigger version of number line/number track. Numbers are increasing in patterns and once we see the pattern, we can quickly recognize 2 more, 5 more, 10 more than any chosen number. Counting on is the same as adding on to a number. We will also take this further and explain addition as "part-part, whole". Two parts come together to make a whole. If I have 5 pennies and you give me 3 more...5 is a part, 3 is another part and altogether, the whole/sum is 8.
SCIENCE
This week is science we will continue to explore/observe the properties of objects by their color, shape, texture, size and mass. We will also observe what changes happen to objects when we heat, cool or freeze them. We are being real scientists and recording our observations in our science journals.
THANK YOU!