Hello!
What beautiful weather we’ve been having! Hopefully families have had a chance to enjoy it! Portfolio conferences start this week. I look forward to sharing all of your child’s growth this year with you!
The Fall Book Fair is coming! Please sign up to help set up, cashier, or clean up! Slots are only 30 minutes in length to accommodate parent schedules with conferences. Feel free to sign up for more than one slot if you would like. Sign up at...http://signup.com/go/EQHxM2. Email ndlc.psc@gmail.com with questions!
Upcoming Events:
November 10th & 15th-Portfolio Conferences
November 17th: Half Day-11:30 Dismissal
November 18th: Field trip to the Building For Kids
November 18th: Badger Day
November 22nd: Twin Day
November 23rd, 24th, 25th:No School-Happy Thanksgiving!
November 28: Packer Day
Reading: We are excited to be digging into nonfiction reading! On Friday we sorted our nonfiction books into topic bins, such as: underwater animals, vehicles, bugs, places, etc. This week we will be working on getting smart from nonfiction topics. We’ll practice taking sneak peeks before we even start reading to learn about our topic, stop and study each page to learn more, and chat about the page using your own words and ideas to talk about the book. We’ll also learn how at the end of the book we can think, “What have I learned about this topic? Am I smarter about the topic now? And then look back at our book and try to remember all we have learned. We’ll also work on reading with a teaching voice by making our voice sound smooth and lively.
Writing: Our writing unit ties in nicely with our reading unit. We’ll be writing nonfiction chapter books. In the beginning of this unit we will be writing a basic information book similar to a picture book. By the end of the unit we will be creating multiple information chapter books filled with elaboration, interesting text elements and pictures that supplement the teaching of the words. This week we will find a topic we know a lot about, plan our topic across our fingers, and keep readers in mind when writing.
Word Work: Our new word wall words are as, good, this, at, can. We will be assessing these words on Friday. Some fun ways to practice them are writing them in shaving cream on cookie sheets, writing them in the air, clapping them as you spell them, or tracing over words with different color crayons or markers. We will also be spending time each week work on phonics skills specific to each student’s developmental level.
Math: We are continuing to work with and practice unknown partners. We will be creating and solving story problems with unknown partners using math mountains and equations, relating subtraction problems to unknown partners and solve by counting on, create and solve subtraction story problems, and relate addition and subtraction stories.
Content: This week we will continue to learn about presidential elections and have a school election today to vote for our favorite candidate.
We’ll read some books about the election process and being a president, learn about the candidates using this site: http://election.scholastic.com/election-central/meet-the-candidates/, and even imagine what we would do if we were president!
It's election time at New Directions:
On Wednesday we’ll begin our study of weather, which will tie in with our visit to the Building for Kids.
As always if you have any questions, let me know!
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