I can't believe it's already the last week of September - this month has flown by!
Your child came home with a bright green permission slip to attend our field trip to Kettle Moraine on October 8th, please turn those forms in with the money and lunch decision as soon as possible!
Please send your child a mouse and headphones to keep here at school if you have not done so already.
Spread the Love Food Drive
September 27-October 1st
The first service project for the 2021-2022 school year will be the Spread the Love Food Drive for St. Joseph Food Pantry in Menasha.
St. Joseph’s Pantry is in high need of peanut butter and jelly. We will be collecting plastic jars of peanut butter and jelly the week of September 27-October 1st. Students can bring items to their classroom for donation. The class that brings in the most items will win a prize for the class!
Upcoming Events:
Monday, September 27th: Pajama Day!
Tuesday, September 28th: Wear Silly Socks!
Wednesday, September 29th: Kaukauna Homecoming Parade & School Color Day - WEAR PURPLE
Thursday, September 30th: Disney and/or Superhero Day!
Friday, October 1st: Kaukauna Spirit Day!
Friday, October 1st: Unit 1 Math Test
October 14th: Family Night (More information to come!)
Curriculum Updates:
Reading: We are continuing to work hard in understanding the characters in our fiction books as well as grounding our ideas about our books. Jotting is very important to the work we do in class, so we've spent some time discussing the importance of it and how it helps us think deeply and grow as readers. We all planted post-its in our books this week and decided what our focus of jotting will be on those post-its. We also talked about how important and helpful the anchor charts are in the classroom...so we must use them! We are currently reading Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo as a class. The kiddos are really enjoying it! We are also weaving in some vocabulary work alongside our reading lessons to help all students level up their vocabulary knowledge. The words we are working on pop up in the Tiger Rising, so students are able to learn them, practice using them, and hear them in context.
Writing: We've finished our troubled stories and are making our way to begin writing a fiction series. We celebrated finishing our troubled stories by identifying our favorite part, and recording us reading it on Seesaw. Go check them out! If you don't have access to your child's seesaw, please let me know. I can get you the parent code and information. We are now working on realistic fiction series. Students are working hard to plan their stories in order to successfully write!
Word Study: We've spent a week working on Unit 1 of Fundations (word study). We've learned about blends, consonants, trigraphs, digraphs, closed syllables and so much more. I am really proud of the kiddos for working through all of this tricky word work! This group has also really shown an interest in writing in cursive! We are practicing writing some letters in cursive (h, l, and e)
Math: This week your child came home with the Unit 1 Math Review for the test. This review is optional, but I give it a week before so students can slowly complete it and use it to study/practice. This unit focuses on place value, rounding, estimation, and adding and subtracting larger numbers. I have been pulling students in "seminars" (small groups) and really working on supporting students as they grasp the content in this unit. We've taken two quick quizzes in this unit as well. I grade them and give them back to kiddos to make corrections on. You'll see these corrections are on post-its. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Enjoy your weekend! 😃
Carly Burris
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