October 3,2014

                                    K-3 Newsletter

                                   Mrs. MacIntyre

October 3,2014

Dear families,

Happy October!  

Autumn is here. It’s hard to believe its autumn because of this past warm weekend and now this much needed rain. However, I am sure warm sunny days and cool dry night are on the way. The children are finding leaves and acorns to add to our science center, continue to do this over the weekend if you can. The class is very interested apples, apple picking, pumpkins and leaves. We have read some nice literature about autumn and have had some great classroom discussions, it sounds like many of you have been or are going apple picking….

This week our letter of the week was Pp. Our tongue twister was “Pat and Paul pick pickles and peppers.” The children practiced the upper and lower case P. They also made letter P mini books. I sent home a letter B homework sheet for practice. Thank you for returning the math homework, the children are proud to bring it back. Of course, the best homework you can do is play games with your child and read to them nightly. I assure you there will plenty of time in the years ahead for paper and pencil homework so I will assign very minimal amounts. During the month of November, I will begin sending home little weekly reading bags your child can share with you.

In Writer’s Workshop, the children continue to do a great job. I hope that you enjoyed going through their September Writing Folders. I keep one piece of writing from each month in a folder here at school. At the end of the year, you will receive the folder. It is amazing to see the progress they make and the great ideas that they write about.

In math, we practiced recognizing different signs, counting, and writing numerals. We also worked with 3 Dimensional and 2 Dimensional shapes.

Mrs. G., our school social worker, has started visiting our classroom. She will come in every Thursday morning for 30 minutes to help teach us social skills that can help us get along with others, solve problems and recognize feelings. We appreciate her time.

I am sending home a pretzel recipe by request of the class… enjoy if you have a chance.

 I hope you and your family have a wonderful weekend.

Fondly,

Colleen MacIntyre