November Newsletter

Weekend Update

Due to the short week this week, the children will not be having a spelling test. We will review the words in class - the concept is adding s to make a plural, so I think it will be fairly easy for them. Watch for a sign up sheet coming home for parent conferences. Parent conference day is Friday, December 9th. I am also holding conferences on the afternoon and evening of December 8th. If need be, I can schedule a conference for you at another date as well. We are finished with Unit 3 in math, and our Unit test is Monday. Counting dimes, nickels and pennies is still a challenge for some students - your help at home with this is much appreciated. This week in writing we are working on pet stories told from the pet's point of view. These stories will be up on our bulletin board for you to admire when you come in for conferences. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I hope to see you all in December.

A few reminders:

Tuesday is Turkey Walk day. All permission slips are in! A special snack is being served (apple crisp) so unless your child does not like apple crisp, no other snack is necessary. Please send in 10 dimes with your child Tuesday. Yes, we are now going to learn to count pennies, nickels and dimes together! A note about dismissal. If someone new is coming to pick your child up, please send in a note, and ask that person to have an ID with them so we can be sure we are doing the right thing to keep the children safe. Many children got all or almost all of their spelling pretest words correct, so they should be studying the word wall words written on their pretests today.

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Weekend Update

Happy Halloween a week late! I hope you have seen the Halloween slideshow from last week. Our parade was wonderful - thank goodness we had it on Friday. We are on to turkeys now. We did take a listening walk to Sarette field on Thursday. It was trash pickup day in the neighborhood, and lots of work was going on at the field so we heard mainly mechanical noises again. Just goes to show how noisy life is, even in tiny Pinardville. With the beginning of Unit 1 in Reading Streets, we now have a weekly spelling list. I will give a pretest on Monday, and send home the words the kids need to study. If they get most of the words correct in the pretest, I will add some word wall words to their list. The final test is on Friday. We now meet with our Book Buddies on Wednesday. I will get some pictures up from Book Buddies this week. It is going to be another short, but busy week!

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