It has been a busy month, and one that seems to nearly have flown by! Apologies for not getting a newsletter out sooner, the only excuse I have is being busy, and not realizing how much time had gone by since my last post.
We had a great time on our trip to Pendleton's, and were able to see butterflies in all stages of their life cycle. I was super impressed with the great job all of the kids did answering questions, and sharing the information they had learned during our butterfly unit. We also had a lot of fun the next day with our pumpkin activities. We made predictions about the height, weight, and circumference of our pumpkins, then checked to find the actual measurements. Also, ask your student if pumpkins float or sink, as this ended up being a rather wet experiment I am sure they will remember. Note to self: Next year use a larger bucket:) They do float, but not on top of the water, and if they are larger pumpkins...lets just say, teacher and students can move fast when water spills all over the place!
We have just finished working on parts of speech during our reading intervention time. We worked on nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and interjections. We will continue reviewing the parts of speech throughout the year. We are now working on writing friendly letters, and will be mailing out our first letters next week. Coming up we will be working on homophones, and homonyms, and reviewing synonyms and antonyms. We just finished Unit 1 in math by taking our Unit 1 test over word problems. We are now working on Unit 2 which is double digit addition. Now that we are finished with our butterfly unit we are studying spiders, and comparing them to insects. FYI, students have been told NO LIVE SPECIMENS with this unit, pictures only;)
Fall Party is this upcoming Friday, October 25 at 2:15. Please feel free to join us for the fun.
Also coming up are Parent Teacher conferences on Wednesday and Thursday November 6th and 7th. I will be sending conference times home with your child. Please let me know if you need to schedule a different time, and we will find a time that works.
Have a great week, and enjoy the wonderful fall weather!
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