Nov. 9-13

Wednesday, November 11th is Veterans Day! For all the brave men and women who have served in military, we say thank you! You are our heroes!

IMPORTANT REMINDER
Tuesday: Ms. Amiri is out for a district training.  Mrs. Carla Lieurance will be my sub.
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. 
Thursday: We have library this week.  All library books are due by 8:00 AM on Thursday.
Friday: Red Reading folders are due!


This week:



 READING
We will continue learning about non-fiction/expository texts.  Since we are getting closer to Thanksgiving, we will focus on Thanksgiving books for the next two weeks. Strong readers activate their prior knowledge or think about what they already know when they read a non-fiction.  They also ask questions, think about author's purpose and identify important facts.  And in addition to all these, strong readers confirm things that they thought they knew and clear any misconceptions.  We will practice doing all these things as we learn about this important tradition: Thanksgiving.



WRITING
As we learn about the story of Thanksgiving, we will record  the information in our own words so we could teach others about history and this important tradition.  We will go back to the time of pilgrims, who they were and where they came from.  We will write about the Mayflower ship, the Plymouth Rock, and the Native Americans. As we write, we make sure we go over the writing conventions: Starting with capital letters, forming the letters correctly, leave one finger space between the words, write sentences with corrects grammar and structure and put punctuation (periods, exclamation points or question marks) at the end of our sentences.



MATH
This week we will start the subtraction. Subtraction names a missing part by taking away, removing or comparing to find a difference. We will use concrete and pictorial models including ten-frames, math racks, Base Ten blocks and other manipulatives to represent word problem situations involving separating or comparing sets of whole numbers up to 20 where the unknown may be start, change, or result of separating problems.



SCIENCES
We will continue learning about energy.  We will explore the objects around us and observe different kinds of energy that these objects use or produce.  We will discuss the importance of energy and saving energy.



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!