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Mrs. Santos’s October News [pic]

|Monthly Reminders: |Upcoming Events: |

|Please send in a smock for Art. This will be kept in the classroom. |Oct 4 – School Pictures |

|Check your child's folder every night for notes and homework. |Oct. 7-11– Week of Respect |

|Please remember to send a healthy snack for your child. Please send in healthy |Oct. 8 – Field Trip |

|birthday treats as well. |Oct. 9 – No School – Yom Kippur |

| |Oct. 11 – Wear a T-shirt that tells something about you |

|[pic] |Oct. 14 – No School – Columbus Day |

| |Oct. 21-25 – Red Ribbon Week |

| |Oct. 21 – Assembly – Wear red |

| |Oct. 22 – Mix it Up Day |

| |Oct. 23 - Parent/ Teacher Conferences – No school |

| |Oct. 24 – PJ Day |

| |Oct. 25 – School Spirit – Wear green |

| |Oct. 31 – Halloween Parade – 9:00 am |

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|Word Study: |Math: |

|Work on letters in the Orton Sequence – a, d, g, m, l |Pattern blocks |

|Multi-sensory approach |Number writing |

|Letter formation |Counting |

|Red Words – is, of, and, be, like, so, do, to, as, has |Create and interpret graphs |

|Review red words: a, the, see, I |Estimate |

| |Identify and match coins |

| |Compare objects in weight and height. |

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|Reader’s Workshop |

|Finishing up We Are Readers and launching: |

|Unit 2: Readers Read, Think and Talk About Emergent Storybooks and Familiar Shared Texts |

|Readers will reread books they know well using the illustrations to get meaning to “read” the story. |

|Readers will use the structure of a story: beginning, middle, end as well as use problem and solution to help guide them in the story. |

|Readers will practice reading with expression, intonation and using story language, with their partners |

|Writer’s Workshop |

|Finishing up Launching the Writing Workshop & Launching |

|Unit 2: Looking Closely: Observing, Labeling, and Listing Like Scientists |

|Writers will “read” the world, collecting natural items and create booklets with drawings, labels and possibly, sentences. |

|Writers will begin to study the work of mentor authors and will learn ways to revise. |

|Writers will study one science topic and will create books about the chosen topic. |

|Science and Social Studies: |

|Pumpkins |

|Christopher Columbus |

|Halloween |

|Seasons |

|Fire Prevention |

|Open Circle: Non-negotiable Rules, Ways we are the same/ different, Non Verbal Signals |

|Respect and Making Good Choices |

|Force: Push & Pull Experiments |

|Bucket Filling: How do you fill a bucket? How to be a bucket-filler and not a bucket-dipper. |

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