Field Trip to Toby's Theater

In your child's folder will be a permission slip for our next field trip on December 15. We are going to Toby's Theater to see "The Real Story of the Three Little Pigs".  Please send back the form and money as soon as possible.

The Beast

 Mr. Heatwole promised to dress up like a beast if Flora Singer students purchased over 1000 books from the book fair. We did it!

November Newsletter

Reading

·         Reading groups are well under way – we are meeting with small groups of children daily to work on decoding and comprehension skills.   We are also working on beginning and ending sounds, and reading rhyming words.  Please continue to read, read, read with your child. The more they read, they more they know!

Writing

     We are making great strides with our writing. Pictures are more detailed, and letters are becoming words and sentences.  We will be using our sight words in our sentences and spelling them correctly.  

Math

·      Our next unit is all about numbers.  We are counting and writing our numbers 0 - 31.  We are making groups of objects and comparing amounts.  We are comparing numbers and their relationship to each other.   The end of year goal is to count to 100 by 1s and 10s.  Practice at home.  Counting is fun!

Science/Social Studies

·      We will be learning about seeds and animal and plants.  We will be learning about the globe and maps. In Health, we are learning about germs and healthy and safe habits. 

ESOL

·   In Beginning ESOL for November, we will be learning about clothing and weather, houses and homes, and the holiday of Thanksgiving.  We will continue to assist and support with Curriculum 2.0 as we co-teach in the classrooms as well.

     Dates to Remember:

·         November 11 – Early Release Day - Conferences

·         November 12 – Early Release Day – Conferences

·         November 25 – Early Release Day – Thanksgiving

·         November 26, 27 – No School - Thanksgiving

DOJO Update

The kindergarten team has upped the goal for our little ones.  They will now need to earn 30 points to get a ticket.  Twenty was getting easy for a lot of the kids and we didn't want to give out less points, so we increased our goal number.  The kids seemed excited to keep earning those points....

Halloween Happenings

Halloween is celebrated school wide on Friday, October 30 starting at 2:30. Please let your child's teacher know if he/she will not be participating so they can be sent to participate in the alternative activities.

October News

Reading

Our first reading tests are just about over and we will be starting 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.

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).  We will also be begin measurement.

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.  We also learn the Pledge of Allegiance.

                                           ESOL

In beginning ESOL, we will be learning letters, sounds and the words that go with each letter.  We will also review the seasons and the weather, learn about parts of our body, the farm, US symbols, and practice speaking in sentences.

Dates to Remember:

October 6 – Picture day

October 6 – PTA meeting

October 12 – Columbus Day – Open House

October 14 – Heyser Farm field trip for Lim, Ramienski, Pierson and Burnsky

October 15 – Heyser Farm field trip for Johnson, Goldberg, Orenstein and O’Neill

October 16 – No School

October 30 – Halloween Celebrations

Remember to send in the signed permission form and $15 for the Heyser Farm field trip.

Heyser Farm Field Trip

We are going to the apple farm.  We have a field trip planned for October 14 or 15 (depending on the class that your child is in).  We are going to Heyser Farm to sort apples, tour the farm and orchard and watch how they make apple cider.  Permission slips will be in your child's folder.  Please return the signed forms and money to your child's teacher as soon as possible.