Week of October 17th


 Monday, October 17th - Guardian Day, Wear Guardian Gear or orange and blue.

Tuesday, October 18th - Future You Day - dress as the job you'd like to have. 

    -Bun making day!

Wednesday, October 19th - Family lunch, parents are invited to eat lunch with students. - 12:00 to 1:00

Thursday, October 20th - Grade 1E Stone Soup, parents are invited to share soup with us! - 11:50 to 12:30, Please send veggies, noodles, beans or otherwise for our soup!  Reading Buddies.

Friday, October 21st - Read On Me Day - wear clothes with words on it! We will try to read everyone's clothes! Please bring Smell Homework!

Monday, October 31st - Halloween, dress up, cookie decorating and games from 12:15 to 1:25, parent volunteers please!


This week is Education Week! We are doing many activities to celebrate learning and education. We will talk about the importance of education and how we learn and grow at school.

Stone Soup - Parents are welcome to come help us prepare our soup and eat with us at 11:50. Please send veggies, noodles or beans for our soup. We will cut veggies and prepare our soup as a class. Last year I had a number of parents comment that their children tried foods they never ate at home and that their children wanted to help out with meal prep after learning how to cut veggies and prepare our soup. I was very impressed with kids trying and liking our soup too!

Science- Smell Homework Please return the smell homework by Friday. We will see how many scents we can identify. It's fun to try because some smells are wonderfully familiar but hard for kids to identify,

Read on Me Day Please wear clothes with print on it. PS. Have you noticed your child recognizing words and word chunks? All day long, students come to me with books and point out words they know or word chunks (like 'ee', 'ea', 'ing', 'er') they recognize! We are at the beginning stages of reading and it's amazing!

Sight Words Some students were sent home with sight words. Please practice them and return them when they are memorized. If your child does not have sight words it is because I have tested your child and they are not quite ready yet. Children without sight words can continue to get familiar with letter sounds and chunk sounds. Common word chunks are 'th', 'sh', 'ch', 'ee', 'ea', 'ow/ou', 'ing', 'ck'. Point out word chunks whenever and wherever you see them and hear them. Every time a child sees and recognizes word chunks and sounds, it builds on their reading knowledge. One small thing you can do is have your child read out loud what they wrote in their agendas. Ask them if we used word chunks. Ask them what letters make a sound.


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