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Scarlet and Gray Newsletter
November 9th to 12th, 2015
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Volume 19, Issue 12
Monday
We greeted classmates, said the pledge and
our class promise and did calendar. We sang
our ‘Days of the Week’ song and ‘Macarena
Months’. We read our popcorn words, did
our ABC chart and ‘Action Alphabet’. We
heard Newsminutes presentations. We read
Clifford Goes to Dog School by Norman
Bridwell. We learned our new popcorn word,
‘go’ and did rainbow writing of it. We read
our poem of the week, ‘It’s Autumn’. Our
focus this week is on writing topics and
writing audience. We wrote about
something we did this weekend. We read
We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt and When the
Leaf Blew In. We had recess. We practiced
writing our numerals from 1-20 for math.
Wednesday
Tuesday
We greeted classmates, said the pledge and 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 learned that great thinkers
persevere. We heard Newsminutes presentations. We
did speedwriting of our popcorn word. We read
Clifford’s First Autumn by Norman Bridwell and made a
web of all the things we know about autumn. We read
Rocket Writes a Story to learn about choosing writing
topics and writing for an audience. The AM class had
library. The PM class read Roots and It Could Still Be a
Tree. We did shared reading and read Who Lives In a
Tree? and Trees to Paper. We had recess. We read
another riddle in Clifford’s Riddles. We read Fall Is Not
Easy and made our own class version of it.
Thursday
We greeted friends, said the pledge and our class
pledge and did calendar. We counted to 100 by
5’s and 10’s. We did our ABC chart and ‘Action
Alphabet’. We read Clifford Goes to Washington
by Norman Bridwell. We heard more
Newsminutes presentations. We practiced writing
sentences with our popcorn word. We sequenced
the lines of our poem. The PM class had library.
We read Library Mouse and realized that we can
all be authors. We read The Wall and learned
about Veteran’s Day. We had recess. We did
another Clifford Riddle. We learned about number
lines and used them to count, locate numbers and
add and subtract by one or two from a given
number.
We greeted one another, said the pledge and our class
promise and did calendar. We subitized ten frames to
5 and counted backwards from 20 and read our
popcorn words. We did our ABC chart and ‘Action
Alphabet’. We read My First Thanksgiving and
graphed what costume we want to make and wear for
our feast next Thursday. We made a chart to help us
remember what good writers do (capitalization,
spacing, punctuation). We read Clifford, the Firehouse
Dog by Norman Bridwell. We highlighted our popcorn
words in and read ‘We Go’. We did shared reading
and read Big A, Little A and began our own individual
versions by doing our ‘a’ page. We had recess. We did
a nature walk and identified the parts of a deciduous
tree and an evergreen tree.
Friday
No School
Teacher Workday
Dear Parents,
Contact Info:
Voicemail:
760-6298
E-MAIL:
letostak_vianne@
dublinschools.net
REMINDERS:
MONDAY:
Homework Due
If you are interested in the latest information on redistricting for
the 2016-17 school year, it is available at this site:
http://www.dublinschools.net/k8redistricting2015.aspx
The cold winds of yesterday reminds us that each child needs to be
independent in fastening the coat that they wear to school. Please take this
three-day weekend to practice this important skill.
Upcoming Dates:
November 13th – No School – Teacher Work Day
November ?? – Kindergarten Feast – date pending due to schoolwide
musical. More details to come.
November 25th to 27th – No School – Thanksgiving
Thanks to our volunteers this week: Mrs. Eskridge, Mrs. Shiomi and Mrs.
Jackson.
Have an amazing weekend!
A DAY: Library Books
Due
Go Bucks! Beat Illinois!!
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
Vianne