Mrs. Henry's Classroom: Newsletter 11/2/18

Wow! We learned a lot of sight words this week! We are spelling them, reading them and writing them! In Readers Workshop we learned how to sit back to back and hip to hip with our reading partners. We learned how partners treat one another, giving our focus to our friend, putting down anything that may be distracting. Partners say kind things like "Should we talk about your book first?". We'll be working on being a respectful, helpful partner all year.

We wrote all about Halloween this week, and then we went back into our Show and Tell books. We learned how to write sentences! Everyone was SO excited to use our knowledge of sight words to build sentences- no need to stress! We are brave spellers!

We did another problem solving Exemplar this week and we learned what a diagram is. We made a diagram to help us solve the problem. We are also comparing items by size, using the words "smallest", "middle-sized" and "biggest". The story The Three Bears helped!

We continued our study of severe weather this week, learning about how a meteorologist's forecast helps everyone prepare for severe weather. We also noticed a change in the weather when we gathered October's weather data.

Thank you for coming to our Halloween Parade! We also had a special Halloween Kindergarten Exchange that afternoon where we mixed up our K classes and did fun Halloween activities in each classroom. Officer Dan came to talk to us about Halloween safety.

News and Notes:

Next Thursday the Ox Ridge Kindergarten will sing at the Veteran's Breakfast. Please dress your child in red, white and blue next Thursday. Remember that this event is for veterans and their families only.
November Scholastic orders are due next Thursday.
No School on Tuesday 11/6. Please consider taking your child with you when you vote! It is a great lesson in civics.