K-3 Newsletter

                              Mrs. MacIntyre

October 7,2016

Dear Families,

I hope you all are enjoying the beautiful Autumn weather. We had a nice week here in K-3. Right now we are digging right into our Trees and Weather unit and the students are really enjoying watching the changes in the trees right outside our window. You may notice your child paying special attention to trees or even naming different parts of a tree. Enjoy and encourage this with them!

Our letter of the week was “Pp”. Our tongue twister was “Pat and Paul pick pickles and peppers.” I hope that you enjoyed reading your child’s September writing. I will send a folder home at the end of each month.I will also be keeping one writing sample from each month in a folder here at school. At the end of the year you will get the folder and you will be amazed at the growth your child makes!

This week, the students brainstormed ideas of things that are red. They drew and wrote about something that is red and read their work aloud to their classmates. Well done!

In math, we  counted, named and graphed pattern blocks. We also identified and matched numbers and continued practice in our Go Math workbooks. You may have noticed your child will be getting math homework every Wednesday night, that is our homework night, in case I haven’t mentioned that.

We are reading lots of literature about trees, apples and pumpkins.

We read my favorite Eric Carle book, Walter the Baker .We tasted pretzels and made our own out of play dough. I have attached a recipe in case you have some free time to make some. The students were very excited about the story of Walter the pretzel maker! Next week, we will taste different apples and graph our favorite.

I will try to take the class outside to look at the trees throughout the fall. I know it may seem hard to know how to dress your child in the morning. Layering works best. Our classroom is pretty comfortable: not too hot or cold. Having a sweatshirt to wear outside is important and please if you haven’t already LABEL the sweatshirts and hats, they get left outside a lot. Thank you in advance!!

Remember there is no school on Monday in honor of Columbus Day and  I hope that you all enjoy the long weekend!

Sincerely,

Mrs. MacIntyre