Oct. 26-30
It was good to see many of my students at Harvest Festival! It rained hard, but the kids had a great time. It is only Caraway PTA that can pull together such a wonderful Harvest Festival on such a rainy day! Thank you for your continuous support to our students, school and PTA!
EARLY RELEASE DAY: Wednesday, Oct. 28th is ERD! Dismissal is at 12:45.
RED RIBBON WEEK ACTIVITIES
IMPORTANT REMINDER
It was good to see many of my students at Harvest Festival! It rained hard, but the kids had a great time. It is only Caraway PTA that can pull together such a wonderful Harvest Festival on such a rainy day! Thank you for your continuous support to our students, school and PTA!
EARLY RELEASE DAY: Wednesday, Oct. 28th is ERD! Dismissal is at 12:45.
RED RIBBON WEEK ACTIVITIES
This week is Red Ribbon Week. We will talk about a healthy life style, eating healthy, exercising, and staying away from all the harmful things that could hurt our bodies. As a whole school, we will do a different activity each day to show our support for a healthy and happy life.
Monday: Come to school in red! Wear as many red items as you can!
Tuesday: Wear your Super Hero shirt.
Tuesday: Wear your Super Hero shirt.
Wednesday: Wear your Caraway Owl shirt.
Thursday: Wear crazy hats or socks.
Friday: Wear your pajamas!
IMPORTANT REMINDER
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders every Wednesday morning.
Please make sure you check your child’s Daily Folder each night and initial the day to show me you saw the information.
Wednesday: Math homework is due.
Please make sure you check your child’s Daily Folder each night and initial the day to show me you saw the information.
Wednesday: Math homework is due.
Thursday: Library Day! All library books are due by 8:00 AM.
Friday: Red Reading folders are due!
This week:
Friday: Red Reading folders are due!
This week:
READING
We have been learning about the features of Nonfiction/Expository texts and this week in the spirit of the month of October and Halloween, we will be focusing on spider books! We will be asking questions about spiders, think about information that we already know, and find new information or hopefully, the answers to our questions in non-fiction texts. The kids love this unit! We will become experts on spiders by the end of the week, and your child should be able to tell you some very interesting facts about spiders.
WRITING
This week we will shift our writing from small moments/personal narratives and learn to write other ways: we will learn to write like scientists. Scientists have very attentive lives, noticing interesting things, and recording what they see. We will draw and sketch, but this time emphasize on the importance of capturing details with precision. As we research and learn facts about spiders, we will record and write these facts so we can teach others about these amazing arachnids.
This week we will shift our writing from small moments/personal narratives and learn to write other ways: we will learn to write like scientists. Scientists have very attentive lives, noticing interesting things, and recording what they see. We will draw and sketch, but this time emphasize on the importance of capturing details with precision. As we research and learn facts about spiders, we will record and write these facts so we can teach others about these amazing arachnids.
This week we will introduce place value. We will use number tracks and make numbers using our 10 sticks (10 blocks) and ones. We will emphasize that the place of a digit in a number matters. Depending on where the digit is, in tens place or in ones place, the digit has a different value (example: compare 17 and 71). So far, we have worked with teen numbers. This week we will work with 2 digit numbers greater than teens. When studying 24, we will see that 2 is 2 sets/groups of 10 which makes twenty and the 4 is just four ones. When comparing the numbers, we will think about both tens and ones in a number. 24 is greater than 22. The number of 10 sticks are the same but the ones are not. 24 has 4 ones and 22 has only 2 ones. We will emphasize the vocabulary such as greater than, less than, before and after.
SOCIAL STUDIES
We have been learning about some very important historical figures and inventors such as Alexander graham Bell, and Thomas Edison. We learned about their contributions and how they changed our lives with their inventions. We also learned about John Venn and used his method of comparison (Venn diagram) and compared the two inventors together and learned about the similarities and differences. This week, we will learn about Garrett Morgan, and Richards Allen who also influenced our nation by their individualism and inventiveness.
We have been learning about some very important historical figures and inventors such as Alexander graham Bell, and Thomas Edison. We learned about their contributions and how they changed our lives with their inventions. We also learned about John Venn and used his method of comparison (Venn diagram) and compared the two inventors together and learned about the similarities and differences. This week, we will learn about Garrett Morgan, and Richards Allen who also influenced our nation by their individualism and inventiveness.
THANK YOU!
Thank you for stuffing the folders, and being willing to help in the classroom or outside the classroom. Your helping hands and hearts are greatly appreciated!
More than anything, thank you for supporting your child's learning at home. Your child's success and education is a result of, us working together! So thank you for being a partner in your child's learning!
More than anything, thank you for supporting your child's learning at home. Your child's success and education is a result of, us working together! So thank you for being a partner in your child's learning!
