October News

Reading and Writing

Phonemic Awareness & Phonics:
Continue learning and reviewing letters & their sounds.
Identifying rhyming words in songs and books.
Breaking apart words by their individual sounds.
Blending word parts.
Fluency:
Rapid letter naming.
Rapid sight word naming.
Comprehension:
istening to stories and identifying the main character!s"# setting# and the
events in the story.
Retell stories through group discussions# drawings# and picture cards with the
correct se$uencing of events from the story.
Introduce and discuss multiple meaning words i.e. duck
Writing:
%rawing and describing pictures from stories that we have read. &se initial
sounds and corresponding letters to label specific things in our pictures.
&se familiar sight words to create and write simple sentences.
Handwriting:
'rinting first & last name starting with a capitol letter.
Correctly printing capitol and lowercase letters.
Correctly tracing and printing sight words.
Grammar: (tarting sentences with capital letter.
'utting space between words.
'utting a period at the end of a sentence.
Review verbs# nouns# and ad)ectives.
Parent Checklist
*t the end of the month# please place a + or N ne,t to each item listed below. 'lease
complete the checklist on the date listed below and sign your name. -hanks.
Can Your Child:
Identify the names and sounds for both capitol and lowercase letters of the alphabet/
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Identify the sight words on the list in their folder/ 0000
*fter reading a book to your child# can they answer $uestions about the character#
setting# and events of the book/ 0000
%raw a picture to tell a story that includes character# setting# and events/ 0000
1rite their name from memory/ 0000
1rite numbers 2342/ 0000
Count# sort and write for the number of ob)ects accurately/0000
Count on from any given number between 2342/0000
Count by 526s to 522/ 00000
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&se manipulatives to create and e,tend numerical patterns.
&se positional words to describe ob)ects as above# below#
between# beside# before# after# top# middle# bottom.
(olving simple story problems.
Creating sets of numbers 5342 with various ob)ects.
Counting ob)ects in a set and comparing them as greater than# less
than# or e$ual to.
Counting on one more.
1riting numbers 2342.
Orally counting to 522 by 56s and 526s.
%aily calendar and graphing activities.
!cience
1e will be discussing many creepy critters such as bats# owls# and
spiders. 1e will be learning about sound# and how bats use
vibrations from sound to see *N% hear. 1e will also learn about
the life cycle of pumpkins.
Calendar
1ednesday Oct. 8
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339arly Release
-uesday Oct.5:
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; <ield trip to Coon =ollo
1ednesday Oct. 5>
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; 'icture %ay
?onday Oct. 42
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; No (chool@-eacher work
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-uesday Oct. 45
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33 No (chool@-eacher work
day
<riday Oct. 4:
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; <all Carnival !>3Apm"
!Report Cards Bo =ome"
1ednesday Oct. 4C
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; 9arly Release %ay
<riday Oct. 75
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;Character %ance & <all
classroom celebration