The Week of October 5th

Room 21 Newsletter

Our first nine weeks in Room 21 is coming to an end and it has been my pleasure to meet with nearly all of our parents. The students have begun working on writing across the curriculum and we will continue to work on this throughout the year. If you've got a third grade student,  ask them if they can explain the RACE method of writing constructed responses in Math. If you've got a second grader, we've begun working on paragraph writing using topic sentences and supporting details. In addition, all students are continuing to write daily in their journals.

*If you haven't done so already, please send in student pictures and/or money.

Field Trips: Please send in all permission slips (signed by parents and students) and money for field trips together. $9.25 is due for all field trips for the entire school year.

Dates to Remember:

10/2    All Unwanted Pictures and/or Picture Money Due

10/7    Erdkinder Sidewalk Arts Festival 4- 6:30 ALL WELCOME

10/8    Mathematics Education Night- Media Center 5:30-6:30 (parents only)

10/12  Staff/Student Holiday- NO SCHOOL

10/16-18 MESS Holiday Photo Fundraiser (proceeds go towards our Montessori teacher training and certification)

10/26-30 Great Pumpkin Book Characters- Media Center

10/30   Bobcat Dads Reading Day (Spooky Stories)

10/30   PTA Fall Festival- Backyard 4-? 

10/30   Dress Down "Sports Stars" $1 for Athletics Fund

Upcoming HEALTHY snack weeks for 25 students: 

**We are a PEANUT FREE classroom.**  

Some suggestions for snack are: precut fruit (apples, grapes, bananas cut in half, oranges, etc.), precut vegetables with hummus for dipping, cheese and crackers, granola bars or chewies, trail mix, applesauce, hummus and crackers, yogurt or Gogurt, graham crackers…  The purpose of snack is to provide a nutritious energy booster when the students need it.  Please keep in mind the nutritional value when choosing a snack.  

           

10/5    Bradaya

10/13  Desmond (4 day week)

10/19  Bradaya 

10/26  Alex

This Week's Lessons : (students continue to work on previous lessons)

Language/Reading

Classification

Alphabetical Order Prefix/Root

Finding Cause and Effect

Writing Across the Curriculum

Penmanship/Cursive

Letter "p"

Arithmetic 

Stamp Game +x-/

Golden Beads- Dynamic Addition

Hundreds Board

Rounding

Comparing Numbers

Addition with Ten Bars

Science:

Rocks and Minerals

Weather/ Seasons

Social Studies:

Vincent van Gogh Research

Historical Figures Research

Practical Life:

Table Maintenance

Math and Language Shelves