Highlights from the End of October

Hello families,

Wow, this week whizzed by! We were engaged in lots of new learning this week. 

In readers workshop we are building good reading habits: responding to our reading when we finish a book, making a reading goal for the day and keeping track of how much we read, and rereading to make our voice smooth like talking.

At Library Mr. Gile showed us how he mends books!

In writers workshop we began writing "one time..." or "the first time I..." small moment stories. These are personal narratives stretching out one small moment from our lives into a whole story. We began this unit on Monday zooming into a big feeling we had in our story. Then we told the story counting the parts on our fingers and then did quick sketches to plan our story out. Finally we began to write and illustrate, writing each part of our small moment story on a different page.

In math our focus this week was representing our thinking in addition or subtraction by using a number line. We did lots of "Froggy on the Number line" pages to help us show the parts and whole numbers when we add or subtract.

On Thursday we did a few fun Halloween themed activities. We read Bones by Steve Jenkins and then drew and labeled our own skeleton diagrams. We played a Monster Mash adding game and started a Halloween math packet of simple computation and number patterns. We built skeletons using Q-tips! We also had "boo cheese" sticks and special Halloween snack bags at snack time.

On Friday we finally had our celebration, watching "The Land Before Time: The Big Freeze." We were also excited to have a dinosaur coloring book!

I sent home notices about our upcoming parent/teacher conferences. On Thursday 11/21 conferences run from 11:45 am - 7:30 pm. On Friday 11/22 conferences run from 11:30 am - 2:30 pm. If you have multiple children at JFK we do our best to schedule you back-to-back conferences so you only have to come for one block of time in your day. Please fill out the form to let me know if you have a time preference to meet with me. Please return the form by 11/8. I'll send home your conference time slot on 11/15 once all the scheduling is complete.

Dates to Remember:

• November 13 - PTO Meeting
• November 15 - All School Morning Meeting 8:15
• November 17 - PTO Craft Fair
• November 21- Early Dismissal 11:00; No student activities; Parent/Teacher Conferences 11:45-8
• November 22- Early Dismissal 11:00; No student activities; Parent/Teacher Conferences 11:30-3
• November 25 - 29 - No School for Thanksgiving Break

Have a great weekend!

❤ Mrs. Fox