Scarlet and Gray Newsletter
October 26th to 29th, 2015
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Volume 19, Issue 10
Monday
We greeted classmates, sang ‘God Bless America’, said our class promise and did calendar. We sang our ‘Days of the Week’ song and ‘Macarena Months’. We subitized numbers 0-­‐6 and read our popcorn words. We did our ABC chart and ‘Action Alphabet’. We learned our new popcorn word, ‘to’ and did rainbow writing of it. We read our poem of the week, ‘Halloween’. We heard our ‘x’ presentation, felt how it sounds in our mouth and throat and made our ‘x’ books. We read Let’s Go for a Drive, A Big Guy Took My Ball, and I’m a Frog, all by Mo Willems. We heard Newsminutes presentations. We read Punctuation Takes a Vacation. We compared versions of The Three Little Pigs. We did shared reading and read Five Little Pumpkins and Clifford’s First Halloween. Wednesday
We greeted friends, sang ‘God Bless America’,
said our class pledge and did calendar. We did
our ABC chart and ‘Action Alphabet’. We read
our popcorn words. We counted to 100 by 5’s
and 10’s. We read I Will Take a Nap! by Mo
Willems. We used interactive writing to
complete the poem ‘Where To?. We heard our
‘q’ presentation, felt how it sounds in our
mouth, and throat, made our ‘q’ books and
practiced writing it in the air, on our hand, on
the carpet and on our white boards. We had
recess. We worked more on our color by shape
activities. The AM class attended the Read-aThon assembly and had library. The PM class
did shared reading of several spider stories.
Tuesday
We greeted each other, sang ‘God Bless America’, said our
class promise and did calendar. We counted to 100 by
ones and read our popcorn words. We did our ABC chart
and ‘Action Alphabet’. We did speedwriting of our popcorn
word. We read My Friend Is So Fun! and Waiting Is Not
Easy! by Mo Willems. We heard Newsminutes
presentations. The AM class had a fire drill. We heard
our letter ‘z’ presentation, felt how it sounds in our mouth
and throat, made our ‘z’ books and practiced writing it in
the air, on our hand, on the carpet and on our white
boards. We did shared reading and read From Seed to
Pumpkin and My First Halloween. We did a Time for Kids –
Pumpkin Season. We did our October Writing Sample. We
had recess. We read Bear In a Square and There’s a
Square and started a color by shape activity.
Thursday
We greeted one another, sang ‘God Bless
America’, said our class promise and did
calendar. We subitized ten frames to 5,
counted backwards from 20 and read our
popcorn words. We did our ABC chart
and ‘Action Alphabet’. We did shared
reading and read Bats Around the Clock
and did a Time for Kids – Life in the Dark
about nocturnal animals. The AM class did
shared reading of several spider stories.
The PM class had library. We had recess,
our costume parade and our Harvest
Party.
Friday
No School
Dear Parents,
Contact Info:
Voicemail:
760-6298
E-MAIL:
letostak_vianne@
dublinschools.net
REMINDERS:
If you are interested in the latest information on redistricting for
the 2016-17 school year, check out this site:
http://www.dublinschools.net/k8redistricting2015.aspx
Instead of the regular handwriting homework this weekend, they have
brought home a two-sided sheet. One side is a syllable sheet and the other is
to tally various shapes. They can pick any room in the house to look for those
shapes. If they forget how to tally you can prompt them with “1-2-3-4across”.
Upcoming Dates:
November 3rd – Rescheduled Kindergarten Field Trip – all AM and PM students
attend during AM times for this one day- permission slips due.
November 5th - K-5 Parent-Teacher Conferences
November 9th, 10th and 11th – Newsminutes
MONDAY:
November 13th – No School – Teacher Work Day
Homework Due
November 25th to 27th – No School – Thanksgiving
A DAY: Library Books
Due
FRIDAY:
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Wear Tennis
shoes for
Fitness
Book Pockets
Due
(beginning in
November)
PLEASE REMEMBER
TO STORE LIBRARY
BOOKS AND BOOK
POCKETS IN
BOOKBAGS TO
PREVENT LOSS OR
DAMAGE.
We’re on the Web!
See us at:
www.dublinschools.
net/oldesawmill
Thanks to our volunteers this week: Mrs. Harden and Mr. Griffith. Thanks also,
to our party planners and helpers: Mrs. Gilliam, Mrs. Eskridge, Mrs. Shiomi, Mr.
Kotb, Ms. Mottet, Mrs. Toth, Mrs. Abdurachmanov, Mrs. Nosek, Mrs. Cornette,
Ms. Buttholph, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Bonnette and Mrs. Al-Hayderi.
Enjoy your extra hour of sleep Saturday night!!
Vianne