Up next... Fall Break 🦃

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify and write: what, you

2. Identify, sound, and write: Ff

3. Create math equations

4. Talk about their story!

🍎 Thank you all for such wonderful meetings to discuss our growth! I look forward to our next conferences, but in the meantime, if you ever have questions, comments, or concerns please reach out!

📚 Thank you to those who stopped by the book fair and supported our classroom library! 😊

🦃 Friendly reminder we are in school only two days next week: Monday and Tuesday! The rest of the week is off for fall break. I hope you all have a wonderful time relaxing with family and friends!

🚌 The Friday after fall break (December 6th) is our field trip to the Iowa City Children's Museum. We will be enjoying this trip from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm. Thank you greatly to those who have volunteered your time to help us be safe and have fun! 

📚 Our reading focus this week has been to identify the author's purpose. This entails reading a story and then questioning what the author shared with us and why the author might have done so. We did this with story books as well as informative books. You can help your student continue to work on this goal by asking similar questions about various stories at home!

🔢 We have continued our work with addition this week moving from only one part of the equation to completing all of the equation ourselves! You can help your student at home by telling them story problems and asking them to show you how to solve the problem with pictures, objects, and equations. You can also show your student an equation from a story problem that you know is right or wrong, and then ask them to show the problem and check if your work is right or wrong. 

🖊 Our story writing unit is well under way! We have started to really make sure our writing tells all the details. It is rather funny when we start reading our story and then have to stop and say "Whaaaat?", then we know we need some more information! We remind ourselves, that writer's say "When I think I'm done, I've just begun!" Help your child with their stories at home by asking them what they are writing about and having them tell you the details of each page. Prompt them with questions that will focus their thinking and drive them to details.

Mid-November

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify and write: come, me, with, my

2. Identify, sound, and write: Nn

3. Review the two sounds of Aa (a- apple, a- ape)

4. What math sign means and

5. What math sign means is

🍎 Thank you to those of you who have already completed conferences with me. I look forward to meeting with the rest of our class on Tuesday (reminder there is not school on Tuesday). We have grown so much and are excited to show it!

📚 This week and last week in reading we focused on retelling a story and drawing conclusion about a story. We did this by orally telling, sorting pictures, and acting out. We also looked at how the characters are feeling and what is being said to help us draw conclusions about what might come next or why a character has done a certain action. Last week we focused on the words come and me, and we added with and my for this week. Last week we looked at the letter Aa again in order to help us identify the two sounds the letter makes (short a - apple, long a - ape) and this week we moved to the letter Nn. 

🔢 We have moved to topic 6 in math which brings us to addition. These are some very important foundational skills that will shape the future understanding of our math. We have focused on numbers up to ten and have spent a few days focusing on each aspect of an equation. Specifically, identifying the missing numbers of a problem, looking at the plus sign, looking at the equal sign, and connecting the concepts of number sentences and equations. We will continue this work next week!

🖊 Our Lincoln Lion Rainbow Publishers have completed their very first writing unit: teaching books! You will see one of your child's favorite teaching books at conference, and the rest will be making their way home as the writers see fit. We have started our next unit: stories! We have been reading lots of helpful books that show us different ways to ensure we have a story. We remind ourselves that stories tell who, what, when, where, and why/how. These stories will have all the details! We also learned about word bubbles and how they can help make our stories come to life!

🦁 Thank you for your continued support and encouragement to our class as we continue to work to our very best ability! As always, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me. Have a wonderful weekend! Lincoln Lions ROAR with PRIDE! 🦁

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Ask Your Child About...

1. Review all our letters: Mm, Ss, Cc, Tt, Aa, Pp

2. Review all our words: we, see, a ,to, the, I, like, and, can

3. What classify means

4. Our expectations and assembly

Halloween Party Success!

🎃 I want to give a special thank you to all of the guardians who came out to support us on Halloween! We loved having everyone line the halls to see our costumes, and appreciated all the help our added adults were able to give us. Thank you!

🍎 Conferences are almost here! We still have slots available, so if you have not signed up yet, please click the link and chose a time/day that works best for you. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about conferences. 

Thank you! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0A4AA9AA22A6F85-fall

🦁 This week the school went over our expectations for bathroom, hallway/stairs, recess, and lunchroom. Please ask your child what the expectations are for each of these areas (such as body to self, voice level, and so on). We also held an assembly to learn the Lincoln Lion Roar! You can sing your school pride at home with your child:

Lincoln Lions roar with pride

Working together side by side

Honest, Caring, Responsibility, Respect

These are the traits that we expect!

Lincoln Lions here us ROAR!

📚 In reading this week we have focused on reviewing our sight words so far, and the letters we have explicitly learned. Help your child by practicing reading and writing each of these from the list above. We also worked on the concept of retelling. We focused on the big parts of the story and worked to put the events in order. You can do this at home with your child verbally, through pictures, or reenacting! 🎭

🔢 Topic 5 of math is a review topic that helps the kids connect all of the concepts we have focused on thus far. We have worked to count groups of objects, identify different ways of classifying, show a number through picture/object representation as well as written numerals, and compared the groups to find which is greater than and which is less than.

🍂 In science we continued looking at leaves and comparing their similarities and differences. We discussed shape, edge line, texture, and color. We are still collecting leaves for our class shape collection, so please send in any special leaves you find around your neighborhood! We also had fun discussing the difference in weather we have had this week- from perfect fall to what seems like winter!

   

🍁Our Leaf Pile on Monday to Snow Tracings on Thursday! ❄