Week of Oct. 17

Mrs. Barr’s Shining Stars News
October 17, 2011

Mrs. Barr’s Message:
This quarter is flying by! Only 3 weeks left. This week we will finish our first unit of our reading curriculum. We will be taking a unit test at the end of the week. When reading each night, talk with your child about the characters, setting, and sequence of the story. Please review the letter names and sounds. For game ideas please see the class website.
We will create our class book “I am thankful for…” this week as part of journal and reading group time. Talk with your child about what being thankful means and what they are thankful for. Have them draw pictures of what they are thankful for. Have them say the word slowly and write down the letter sounds they hear. Correct spelling is NOT important at this stage in writing!!! Always praise your child for any attempts at writing letters/words. We have practiced this in our journals and they are doing great! Be on the lookout for the order form for your hard back copy of the class book. Thanks for participlating!
Thanks for all you do!!!

IMPORTANT DATES:

10/20: Bingo/Pizza fundraiser in the MPS @ 1800

11/3: End of 1st Quarter

11/4: No school for students

11/5: Craft Market Fundraiser

11/9-11/10 Parent Teacher Conferences (no school for Elem. students

11/10: Principal’s Coffee- 9am

11/11: No school Veteran’s Day

Monday 10/17
Art
Tuesday 10/18
Host Nation
Wednesday 10/19
PE
Thursday 10/20
Music (in the AM)
Friday 10/21
PE

!!!REMINDER!!!

You may keep a spare change of clothes in your child’s backpack. We can store them in the room if you don’t want them to carry them back and forth. Accidents (and mud puddles) happen!

Library is on Friday

Check out information, resources, kid web sites, and pictures on our classroom blog:
www.mrsbarrshiningstars.blogspot.com

Homework is not mandatory but highly recommended!!


Writing:
Sight words: to, a
Review: am, I, little, it, is, the

Please review these sight words for our unit test!!!
KE2a.1: Discuss ideas to include in a story.
KE2a.3: Write using pictures, letters, and words.


Reading:

Letters: X, Y, Z, vowels
Review: A-W

Reviewing character, setting, sequence, and sorting/classifying.

Dig, Dig, Dig

KE1c.3: Identify characters, settings, and important events in a story.
KE1a.14: Match all consonant sounds in simple words (such as mad, red, pin, top,
sun) to appropriate letters.


Math:
We are making number quilts!
K.M.1a: identify, write, and name numbers up to 20
K.M.1b: using one-to-one correspondence, count the number of objects in sets up to 20;


Books:
1, 2, 3
Where’s my teddy
Horris and Morace but mostly Delores
Ten, nine, eight
Today I feel silly
Boys and Girls of the world
Today is Monday
Mama, how much do you love me?
Just so thankful
Thanks a million

Plus many more!


Children need to hear and say the words that one day they will read and write. Have fun with the following songs and rhymes… word play leads to word power!
KE3b.2: Recite short poems, rhymes, and songs.


COLOR OF THE WEEK:

(don’t forget Show-n-Share on Friday! It
must be the color of the week!)


Gray


Look at them go
(tune: wheels on the bus)
The diggers dig with a scoop, scoop, scooping
Scoop, scoop, scooping,
Scoop, scoop, scooping
The diggers dig with a scoop, scoop, scooping
Look at them go

V2: The fire hose sprays with a swoosh, swoosh, swooshing
V3: The tractors plow with a squelch, squelch, squelching
V4: Garbage trucks are good at gobble, gobble, gobbling
V5: The cranes carry pipes that are spin, spin, spinning
V6: The dump trucks dump with a rumble, rumble, rumbling