Hi there,
It’s hard to believe it’s November already! I’m very excited to share your child’s progress at our Portfolio Conferences this month. Students have grown so much since the beginning of the year. Conference times came home yesterday. Please let me know if you have not received yours. If you have not returned your child’s permission slip and money for our field trip to the Building For Kids, they are due this Friday, November 4th.
Check out this link for the New Directions Newsletter
Here’s a link to the November lunch calendar:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2BiuAZD6NhGV0tQcWtjVENOejNUY3JtR294YW9IZUN5bHdF/view?usp=sharing
Show appreciation for the NDLC staff by bringing an item or two for their conference meals. We'll be providing for for our teachers plus support staff and specialists. Thursday, Nov. 10th will be a Taco Bar and Tuesday, Nov. 15th will be Soup and Sandwiches. Please sign up to contribute at... http://signup.com/go/i1k9Qj
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 2nd-Little Mermaid Performance at the High School
November 10th & 15th-Portfolio Conferences-Look for more information to come home soon.
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: Word Detectives have been working hard to use all they know about letters, sounds and words to read. This week we will be noticing contractions and compound words to help us figure out tricky words, make our reading sound smooth after we figure out the tricky parts, and then end our unit with a celebration by showing off all we have learned.
At the end of the week we will be starting our new unit, Learning About the World: Reading Nonfiction. We will be building on students’ natural curiosity as we dig into nonfiction books.
Writing: We will be finishing up our How-To writing this week, but continuing with information writing by writing All About books starting next week. This week we are using a checklist to make sure we have all the parts of a How-To, and then setting our goal and giving ourselves jobs if we notice anything missing. We will be celebrating our How-Tos and meeting our goals at the end of the week.
Word Work: Our new word wall words are as, be, it, you, have. We will be assessing these words on Friday. These are the ‘snap’ words we are using as word detectives. 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 will be starting a new unit, Unknown Numbers in Addition and Subtraction. This week we will be focusing on solving problems with unknown addition partners. For example, We see 9 fish. Five are big. The others are small. How many fish are small? We will be exploring multiple strategies for solving these problems.
Content: This week we will be learning about presidential elections. 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!
As always if you have any questions, let me know!
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