January 5th

January Dates to keep in mind:

-1/12: PTO mtg @ 4 pm & REACH Board mtg @ 7pm

1/14: Coffee with Director @ 8am

1/19: MLK-NO SCHOOL

1/22: Parent technology meeting @ 6pm

1/26-1/30: Nation School Choice Week

1/28: Prospective Parent Info Mtg @5pm

1/29: January Awards Assembly @ 8am

Here is a look into our first week back

Language Arts:

• Unit 3-Wk 1: "Little Panda"

• Weekly Comprehension Exam: Compare and Contrast

Math:

• Chapter 7-Shapes
• Students will be able to recognize and name basic solid shapes.
• Students will be able to describe basic solid and flat shapes
• Students will be able to say name and draw flat shapes
• Students will be able to make pictures using basic flat shapes
• Students will be able to identify and extend a shape pattern

Social Studies:

• Unit 6: L2-Who are people in history?
• Students will know the triumphs in American legends and historical accounts through the stories of people

Leadership:

• Excellence-What does excellence look like?

Science:

• Chapter3-Living and Nonliving thing
• Students will be able to identify living and nonliving things. 

Important Dates

12/16

• Christmas performance practice (school wide @ 8am-please have your child arrive to school on time)
• Emergency Drill @ l0:20

12/17

• Spark of Love- Fire Department to pick-up toys 9:00-10:30am (TK-1 Only)
• Cynthia Fraser Read & Grow Rich Engineering Project (ALL GRADE LEVELS)
• Our class time will be from 8:00-8:45
• Thank you to all those families that have signed up to bring in items!

12/18

• December awards assembly
• Christmas program-performances begin at 2:00 pm
• Everyone can wear red and green

12/19

• Pajama Day
• Polar Express party after lunch
• Vision and Hearing screenings
• After school program closed

December 1st Update

Upcoming REACH dates:

• 12/5 End of 1st Trimester
• 12/8 PTO meeting
• 12/10 Wacky Wednesday and Coding (more information to follow soon-Volunteers will be needed)
• Coffee with director @ 8:30 am
• 12/12 Family Friday Lunch
•  Trimester 1 report cards go home
• 12/18 Award Assembly
• Christmas/Holiday performance @ 2pm
• 12/19 Vision and Hearing test

Look into our week

Language Arts:

• Unit 2 week 5: "A bed for Winter"

• Weekly comprehension exam: Sequence

Math:

• Continue with Chapter 6: Numbers 0-20
• Students will be able to read and write from 10-12
• Students will be able to read and write from 13-16
• Students will be able to read and write from 17-20
• Students will be able to compare groups of up to 20 objects

Social Studies/ Leadership:

• Days of the week and months of the year.
• Students will be able to identify and put them in order. 

Disguise a Turkey

What's Going on This Week

REACH News:

* Our class will be having a small celebration following the festival.

Look at our week

Language arts:

• Unit 2-Week 2 "Nature Spy"




• Weekly test: Comprehension (setting)

Math:

• Finish up Chapter 4 (Count and order numbers 0-10)
• Students will understand and how the meaning of less
• Students will use more and less to compare number values
• Chapter 4 test: Wednesday
• Begin Chapter 5 (Size)
• Students will understand the concept of same-sized
• Students will explore the idea that only a few big objects fit into small spaces and many small objects fit into big spaces

Science:

• Objects and their composition

Social Studies:

• Halloween around the world

Leadership:

• Famous leaders

October 20th-24th

School News:

Look into our week

Language Arts:

• Unit 2-Week 1: "Flowers"

• Weekly comprehension exam: Compare and Contrast

Math:

• Continue with Chapter 4
• Students will be able to compose and decompose numbers to 5.
• Counting and ordering up to 10
• Students will order numbers 0-10
• Using fingers and toes to count on
• Same number and more
• Students will show and understand the meaning of same and more

Science:

• All about pumpkins!
• parts of a pumpkin
• life cycle of a pumpkin
• Foody Fun Friday- Pumpkin Pies!
• Thank you for all the donations! Fun learning activities like this can not be done with out you!

Leadership:

• Safety with products and medicine

Weekly Update

***LUNCH order forms for the month of October went home Friday. Be sure to fill it out and turn it in ASAP (especially if your child receives free or reduced lunch). Ms. Judi will be submitting the lunch requests prior to October starting.

OUR WEEK AT A GLANCE

Language Arts:

Math:

• Continue with chapter 2
• Students will be able to use 0 to 9 to tell the number of objects
• Students will be able to pair up sets of objects with other sets of the same quantity
• Students will pair up sets of objects one-to-one with other sets of the same quantity

Science:

• Chapter 2: Solve problems
• Students will be able to identify a problem and a design and materials for solving it.
• Students will note that one can draw and plan, create and test solution
• Students will explain that solutions can be shared in different ways
• Students will see different items sink or float and will make a prediction about apples and graph it
• Test: on Chapter 2

Social Studies:

• Unit 3: Lesson 1-What jobs do people do?
• Student will match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts

Leadership:

• What is leadership? What do leaders do?