Math:

Students will practice and demonstrate their ability to subitize, or instantly recognize sets of objects (such as dots) in patterned arrangements and to tell how many without counting. Students will continue to develop their conceptual understanding of the relationships between the numbers 1-10 and the anchor numbers of 5 and 10 and will use five-frames and ten-frames in problem solving. Students will practice and develop an understanding of how to compose and decompose numbers 0 – 120 using concrete and pictorial representations. Students will count up and back between 1 and 120.

Students will continue to develop their ability to conceptualize a number as being made up of two or more parts and their understanding of the part-part-whole model and related number relationships. They will also continue to explore, in this unit and throughout the year, a variety of addition/subtraction problem situations including joining, separating, part-part-whole, and comparing, with different unknowns: result/change/start, or part/whole or difference, in order to develop an understanding of the operations of addition and subtraction. Sums and differences are limited to 20. Students will generate a problem solving situation from a given number sentence and use concrete and pictorial models to solve problems using addition and subtraction with whole numbers to 20.

Reading Workshop:

This week in reading workshop we will continue with our lessons on Reading to Someone and practicing what that looks like independently.  We will focus on choosing our own classroom spot, learn how to choose our own partner (so far I have placed them with a partner), and finally learn techniques for coaching our partners (if they get stuck on their reading or with comprehension).   Partner reading can be very productive and rewarding for each person, but certain guidelines must be followed so optimum learning will take place.  This will complete all our lessons on Read to Someone.  From now on, the focus will be on learning different reading strategies to help build our reading comprehension and stamina.

Words Their Way:

Green group:  Beginning Consonant sounds

Blue group:  ap and ag word families (map, cap, bag, flag)

Red group:  short o vs. long o (CVCe) (hop, hope)

Writing Workshop:

Next week we will be writing about the beginning, middle, and end in stories. We will focus on the main characters and the setting during the "beginning"; what were the main characters doing and why/what was the main character's problem in the "middle"; how were the main characters live's different/how was the problem solved in the "end". 

Social Studies:

This week, we will be discussing what leaders are, and the different types of leaders in our society.  We will brainstorm the responsibilities of our Principal, Mrs. Hohmann, our Mayor, Lee Leffingwell, our Governor, Rick Perry, and our President, Barack Obama.  After this, we will think and write about how we are leaders in our school.

Habit #3:  Put First things First-  We will continue to talk about our priorities, and focus on what is the most important thing that needs to be done at that time.

Reminders:

*Please remember to send a healthy snack every day.  Snack time is @ 9:30am.

*Make sure your child wears tennis shoes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

*Library day is Tuesday.

*Please remember to send back your child’s orange folder and homework bag every day.

Dates to remember:

October 10:  Science Night

October 14:  Student Holiday

October 18:  Hoot Family Picnic

October 30:  Early Release Day

November 2:  Harvest Festival

November 13:  Family Skate Night

November 27-29:  Thanksgiving Holidays

December 4:  Early Release Day

December 5:  Family Art Night

December 9-13:  Book Fair

December 23:  Winter Break Begins