November 7-11

Happy November!

As the days are getting cooler, please remember to send your child to school with jackets, hats and mittens! Some of the recesses are getting pretty cool!

REMEMBER:

Conferences are this week! If you have forgotten your time or you need to reschedule, please email me at sconnor@kearsarge.org

There will be no school on FRIDAY in honor of Veteran's Day.

This Week:

Math: We are finishing up our topic on using addition to subtract. We will be having our test on Wednesday and then on Thursday we will be taking a review test on the last four topics. You will notice that the homework this week is tests from each topic as review. If you are finding that these topics are not review for your child, please email or send in a note!

Literacy: We are starting to talk about the essential question "how do animals communicate". Please study the spelling words that were sent home with your child this week. Our test will be next Thursday.

Social Studies: We are still talking about community, but we will be taking a quick break to talk about Veteran's Day. If you have a family member or a friend who is a Veteran or is currently serving in our Armed Forces, please take a minute to fill out the tag that went home today. We will be creating a wall of these for students to look at throughout the upcoming weeks.

October 31- November 4th

Happy Halloween!

Look below for some awesome pictures from our day!

This week:

Literacy:
This week we are focused on the essential question: What lessons can we learn from story characters?. We will be talking about writing in complete sentences, the endings -ck and -ack, as well as, double final consonants. Please help your child practice their spelling words this week.

Math:
We will be focusing on subtracting 0, 1, and 2. We will also be talking about using addition to solve subtraction problems. This is often a difficult topic for students, if they have difficulty on their homework, please do not hesitate to send in a note and I can go over it again with them.

Social Studies:
We will be focusing on our community for the next couple of weeks.

October 17-21

Happy Fall! (or is it still summer?)

This Week:

Math: We are working on numbers in a ten frame and will be completing this topic this week.

Literacy: We are focusing on the essential question "Who can you meet in a neighborhood", adjectives, the ending -et, words with short e, and the consonants y, j, w, k, and v.

Science: We are finishing up our unit on insects by talking about people who study insects as their job.

Check out these kiddos working on putting words in alphabetical order. This is a really challenging concept!

Week of October 11-14

Reminders:
Any last minute Bulb or Yankee Candle orders are due.
Please send your child to school with a jacket, recess time is still a bit cold.

This week:

Math: We are starting our new math unit on Five and Ten Relationships. Students will be able to recognize and represent parts of ten.

Literacy: We are discussing neighbors and neighborhoods this week in Literacy. We will be focusing on short e words and the essential question "who is a neighbor".

Science: We are wrapping up our science unit on insects.

Week of October 3-7

Reminders:

• Don't forget to bring in your bulb or Yankee Candle orders!
• We do not have school on Friday or Monday.
• Scholastic Book Orders are due online or in class by Thursday. 

This Week:

Math: We will be wrapping up our Subtraction Topic, with our test being on Thursday. 

Reading: We are focusing on short o, action words, sequencing stories, understanding authors word choice, and monitoring and clarifying our writing. 

Science: We are focusing on how insects grow and reproduce. 

Week of September 26-30

Reminders:
Don't forget to ask your families to buy bulbs or Yankee Candles to help support the PTO!

This Week:

Math: We are focusing on subtraction this week!

Literacy: Students are working on short i sounds, possessives and non-fiction reading, while learning about storms.

Science: This week we are focusing on how insects fit into the food web. We will start talking about decomposers as the week progresses.

Guest Reader

We had a special volunteer read to us today!