Reading
Our first reading tests are over and we all started our small reading groups. Your child will be grouped with students with similar skills and needs. We are working on the characters and setting of the story, sequencing events, and nonfiction texts. When your child brings a book home on Friday, please return it to school on Monday.
Writing
We have been working on drawing, adding details and labeling our pictures. Up next, we will be writing with beginning sounds and working our way to words and sentences. Please practice letter formation at home with your child.
Math
We are continuing to count and making connections between the number word, the numeral and the quantity. We will be subitizing numbers – quickly recognizing formations as a quantity (for example, three dots in a diagonal on a die is 3).
Science/Social Studies
We are finishing our weather unit with seasons and the water cycle. We will be starting a unit on American Symbols, which includes the Statue of Liberty, Mt. Rushmore, the bald eagle, the American flag, and the Liberty Bell.
ESOL
In ESOL pullout
groups, we will be learning letters, sounds and the words that go with
each letter. We will also review the seasons and the
weather, US symbols, and practice speaking in sentences.
Dates to Remember:
October 10 – Columbus Day – Open House
October 12 – No School
October 19 – Heyser Farm field trip for Pierson, Goldberg, and O’Neill
October 21 –
October 24-28 - Book Fair in media center
October 31 – Fall festival
Remember to send in the signed permission form and $12 for the Heyser Farm field trip.
If your child will not be participating in the Fall Festival, please let your teacher know. Alternate activities will be available.
