What's Happening...

This Friday was the mini-cheer act at the home football game.  The girls had so much fun and really did a fabulous job.  Great job goes out to my own little one and these three sweethearts pictured below.  Way to go girls and GO PINTOS!

 It's starting to resemble fall not only outside, but in the classroom as well.  I finally got our fall bulletin board up and the kids just absolutely love it!  We'll be doing an activity to go along with this theme in the coming weeks.  For now....enjoy the fall season with this pic!

 With all the ROYALS excitement I had to share this sweet pic of my girl and I during one of the recesses this week.  We are avid Royals fans and are so excited to see our boys in blue playing so well.

 Our centers are even reflecting the season as well.  Our new math game is called Counting Spiders.  The students are practicing their math facts by looking at the number sentence, using the halloween counters to help them figure out the problem and then they place the number sentence on the answer mat.

The kids have also been using their addition flash cards to practice their math facts.  We have been practicing the doubles problems and become very fluent with our facts.  I am amazed at how quickly the students have learned their doubles.

 

Of course we still love to use the computers to help with our math fluency as well.

Our new word work activity this week has the students using magnetic letters to spell our word wall words.  This coming week, the students will be taking a spelling test that will help me create individualized spelling lists for each child.  You will hear more about this spelling program called Making Meaning next week.

Here are some reminders about this upcoming week.  I hope you all have a great weekend!!

Your child's parent teacher conference scheduled time is in your child's homework folder. I tried my best to give you a time that you requested.  If you did not turn in your parent teacher conference form, I assigned you a time that I had available.  If the time and date given will not work for you, please let me know so we can meet at a time that works best for you.

On Wednesday, October 28th our class will be conducting a pumpkin investigation as a culmination to our living/nonliving unit.  We need various sizes of pumpkins donated for the pumpkin investigation.  If you would be willing to donate a pumpkin to our class, please bring it in by next Friday.  Thank you so much for all your help in making this project a success for the students.

Our class fall party will be on October 29th from 2—3pm.  If you would like to donate a food, drink, or volunteer for the games, please fill out the yellow fall party note that went home in your child’s blue homework folder.