Newsletter 10-6-17

Our Weekly Learning           10-6-17
News and Information PTA Fall Festival When: Saturday, October 7th Where: Clever Elementary Playground 5-7:30pm What: Games, Prizes, Concessions, and More! Movie to follow the festival...stay for a family event and enjoy popcorn and hot coco! READING CHALLENGE- Keep on reading! Be sure to save your BOX TOPS and send them to school with your child.  The class that collects the most wins a prize and the money raised goes to buy things for our school!  Win-Win!! Parent Teacher Conferences are Monday and Tuesday, October 16th-17th. You can sign up at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/409084daeab29a6f58-fall or call the office to schedule a time.   Field Trip to the Pumpkin Patch on October 25th! Please return permission slips and $5 to school by Wednesday, October 18th.
Language Workshop We continued learning about nouns and learned how to count syllables in a word by clapping out the sounds we here. We read “The Biggest Pumpkin EVER” and Perfect Pumpkins.  We learned how to make predictions while reading and the differences and similarities between a fiction and nonfiction text.	Math Workshop This week we continued our module on Sums and Differences to 10. We focused on solving story problems. The students practiced reading the story, drawing a picture to match and writing the number sentence to find the missing part.
Writing Workshop This week we started our first unit on narrative writing.  We learned to prewrite and use our writing binders to keep organized.	Word Study Group A continued working on words that start with the “wh” and “th” sound. Group B worked on the the “-en”, “-et”and “-eg” word families.
Next Week In writing, we will continue to learn how to write an opinion piece. We will also keep working on our first module for math, Sums and Differences to 10. In language we will be learning about pronouns. In reading we will be learning about fairy tales with characters, setting, problems and solutions.	Important Dates Fire Safety Week-10/9-10/12 Read-A-Thon 10/12 Parent Teacher Conferences- 10/16-10/17 Field Trip 10/25