Newsletter November 2 - November 6

 Happy November, Happy Birthday Lola and surprise it rained! This will definitely be an interesting week especially with the upcoming presidential election.  

We had a wonderful Halloween day at school and I heard many experiences with trunk or treats, face painting and spooky parties.    Here are this week's happenings:

• The following bits of information have also been sent home via REMIND (our East Remind).  If you do not have that set up yet and don't know how to do it please let me know and I can get you the information.               
• The nurse sent a message about student's not bringing masks to school.  We haven't really had a huge problem in our class, but I am almost out of the box that I received at the beginning of the year of back up masks and as soon as those are out I will have to send students who forget or lose theirs to the office.
• Free breakfast and lunch is being extended through the end of the year or until funds run out--how wonderful is that?!
• All items in the lost and found will be donated after this Friday--if your child is missing an item please have them look for it--if you send me a message I can remind your child to look their lost piece of clothing :)
• November reading calendars were sent home today.  The October calendars are due by this Wednesday for a certificate, treat and pizza hut coupon for a free personal pizza.  This is the only "homework" I require--thanks for reading with your child each night and/or practicing sight words.  
• This week in math we are learning about how to "make a ten" to add.  Using this strategy students use an addition problem such as 9 + 5 = where they take 1 from 5 to "make a ten" then the problem is "easier" as it becomes 10 + 4 = 14 so 9 + 5 also = 14.  At the end of the week we will start adding three numbers ( 3 + 5 + 4 = ). 
• In reading we are finishing up our second unit that focused mostly on long vowel sounds (silent e).  Many students are still slow in decoding (reading) words with the long vowel sounds in them so we will continue to reinforce that concept as we start into unit 3.  We are almost finished with our Human Body unit--we learned about immunizations and pasteurization last week and this week we will concentrate on healthy eating and the food pyramid. We will then head back to our Ancient World civilizations and begin our study of Ancient Egypt.  

Have a happy Monday, read with and love your kids!!  This is a special bunch!!  

Happy Reading,

Mrs. Armstrong