October 30, 2015
Dear Parents,
Today was an exciting day! While Halloween was our theme throughout the week,
today’s activities were definitely the highlight! Thank you for all you did to prepare
your child for the parade and party. As a reminder, Lockwood is encouraging
families to limit the candy that is brought to school to only two snack size candies
for lunch dessert and healthier options for the afternoon snack recess. Thank you.
Literacy
 In our Benchmark Literacy program, we are focusing on identifying the
main idea (or big idea) and supporting details in stories. We practiced
identifying these elements in several texts this week. As a class, we
identified the main idea in the story, Today, I Feel Silly, by Jaime Lee
Curtis and each child wrote and illustrated a detail (feeling/mood) from
the story.
 Our silent reading/group reading time is coming along nicely. What great
readers we have this year! 
 We wrote about and illustrated our Halloween costumes. Student sharing
of their writings have become a highlight. They are so proud to stand in
front of the group and share their hard work!
 In addition to our fall games, several Halloween literacy games were
available to play this week. They focused on upper and lowercase letter
recognition, letter-sound knowledge, building CVC words (consonantvowel-consonant), CVC and sight word reading.
 The students learned two Halloween poems, practiced reading them
chorally/individually and added them to our ever-growing poetry binder.
The poems are a great way for us to practice our sight words and using
various strategies that good readers use.
Math
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We started working in our new math journals. We will frequently use
math prompts to practice, reinforce and record various math concepts in
our journals throughout the year.
We practiced writing, counting and ordering the numbers from 0-20. We
are spending some extra time on the teen numbers, which are harder for
some students to write and recognize. Many of our fall/Halloween games
reinforced these concepts.
We did a #1-15 “Count Around The Room” involving Halloween pictures.
We practiced representing numbers using the number, the number word,
tallies and ten frames. We also practiced identifying odd and even
numbers.
Science
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Using our Scholastic, Let’s Find Out magazine and online resources as a
starting point, we learned about bats and compared and contrasted them
to birds.
Social Studies
 In our Second Step unit, we continue to learn about and discuss various
feelings, how to recognize them in others and in ourselves. The word
“empathy” was introduced (feeling and understanding what others feel).
We made a “feelings” book from a Let’s Find Out magazine.
Art
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We made candy corn people and bats. The kids also went to town using
crayons, markers and colored pencils to color various Halloween pages
during free choice. This group loves to color! 
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On Monday, the students participated in the school hearing and vision
screening. Thank you to those parents who volunteered.
We voted on what eyes, nose and mouth we wanted for our class jack-olantern. Thank you to Jessica Read for carving our pumpkin and for
helping the students clean out all the pulp and seeds! Some kids really
enjoyed using their hands and some preferred using the scooper! 
The Halloween parade and party was the hit of the week! Thank you to
everyone who made the event possible!
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Wishing everyone a fun and safe Halloween!
Mrs. Orella
BOO! 
Message from PTA President, Kristan Novotny…
PTA General Meeting
November 3rd
7 pm Lockwood Cafeteria
After the PTA meeting, Suzanne Wade and Kerri McCaul will be discussing PBIS, its role at
Lockwood and what parents should know about it.
Childcare will be provided