Ms. Moore’s Wild Things!
October 23rd, 2009
“Honoring All Learners”
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Literacy
We are learning the names and sounds
of letters Q-U.
Focused on sight words: He, She
Word Families: -et, -en
Listening to sounds in words and
matching them to letters to form
words
* Memorable Stories:
Little Miss Spriders Tea Party
The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin
Where The Wild Things Are
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Handwriting
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We continue writing in our journalsremembering to put a capital letter for
the first word in the sentence and a
period at the end.
Writing high frequency words (star
words).
We have been practicing how to write the
capital and lowercase letters Q-U.
Math
CORE
Make predictions about dice throws,
Focus: Alaska and Hawaii
graph and discuss results.
 Did you know the flag of Alaska was
Use a pan balance to compare and
created by a 13 year old boy named Benny.
describe the weights of various
He won a contest at his school.
objects.
 The Alaskan flag has 8 stars forming the
Count numbers of dots on dominoes.
Big Dipper and North Star. The stars
Become aware of equivalent names for
represent the 8 major islands.
numbers.
 In Hawaii we learned that our names
Compare and order numbers 1-20
would be pronounced and spelled
Measure items using cubes. Compare
different. They only have 12 letters in
lengths.
their alphabet!
Begin to understand the meaning of
addition and subtraction.
CORE Saying: Better Safe Than Sorry
Important Dates:
Today– PTO Social and Original Art Work Orders DUE- If you would still like to place an
order please get them in as soon as possible. Quite a large percentage of sales goes to Bethke
October 27th – Vision and Hearing Testing
October 30th – Halloween Parade 9:05 followed by party! YEAH!
October 30th – Thanksgiving luncheon presale tickets must be purchased by this day
(Very important—there will be no money taken on the day—just tickets!)
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November 5 - Picture Re-take Day
November 13th- Report card goes home for Kindergarteners
November 16-20th – Book Fair Week
November 20th – Thanksgiving Family Luncheon (K-1 will eat from 11:30-12:15)
Notices:
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