Important Dates & Reminders

October 7th: No School

November 3rd: Early release

November 6th: No School 

November 7th: No School

Reminders: Please send your child to school with a water bottle, a snack and a change of clothes each day!

Language Arts

What We Learned This Past Month

Reading: 

• We worked on following reading workshop routines. 
• We worked on retelling stories using the characters, settings, and events in the correct sequence from beginning to end.
• We learned about short vowel sounds (a,e,i,o,u) in CVC words. Ex: cat, dog, pig, hug, pen. 
• We learned about digraphs (sh, ch, th). 

Writing: 

• We worked on following writing workshop routines. 
• We started working on personal narratives.
• We worked on stretching out words to help us write. 
• We worked on using finger space, punctuation and capital letters to start a sentence.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

Reading

• We will learn s,l and r blends and inflectional endings (ing, ed) 
• We will continue to identify and describe characters, settings, and important events in a story using details.
• We will continue to retell stories using the characters, settings, and events in the correct sequence from beginning to end. 
• We will start reading non fiction stories. 

Writing:  

• We will begin writing non fiction stories.
• We will continue practicing stretching out words to help us write. 
• We will continue working on using finger space, punctuation and capital letters to start a sentence.

Math

What We Learned This Past Month

• We continued to work on Math Workshop routines.
• We shared our thinking as mathematicians.
• We practiced forwards and backwards counting to 100
• We practiced reading and writing our numbers. 
• We started to learn about data and how to make and read different types of graphs.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

• We will be learning how to tell time to the hour on a digital and analog clock. 
• We will learn about length and width. 
• We will start addition and subtraction within 10.

Content (science/social studies)

What We Learned This Past Month

• We learned about being a Virginian, Government and Leadership.
• We began to learn how to be a scientist. 
• We used science journals to make observations.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

• We will learn about fall seasonal changes. 
• We will learn about weather, plants, animals and trees.

Concept (community)

What We Learned This Past Month

• We talked about our class community and school community. 
• We talked about community rules.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month

• We will talk about our own communities. 
• We will work on our community maps.