10/26/2015

October 26th-30th

Gale Woods Field Trip--Wednesday, October 

28th from 12:00-3:30.  

Please send your child to school wearing their college t-shirts, uniform bottoms and old tennis shoes/rain boots.  We will be eating lunch at school at their normal lunch time.  If you have any questions please contact your student's teacher.


OSA--Friday, October 30th at 2:50 in the 

Cologne Community Center.  

If you are planning on taking your child after the OSA please let your student's teacher know before Thursday afternoon.


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LITERATURE
Have You Seen My Duckling?
Farmer Duck
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
Focus:  Schema and Prediction

MATH
We are reviewing for our Math Interims this week.  We will be taking Math Interims November 2-6th. Please make sure that your student gets a good breakfast and plenty of rest. 
During the months of September and October students will work on the following skills:
·         numbers 0-10 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
·         matching and sorting: size and shape
·         2-dimensional shapes
·         patterns :AB and ABB
Throughout the year students will explore math through open-ended- problem solving journals, math stations, ipads/ipods, IXL, rekenreks, and a variety of math manipulatives.

HANDWRITING/WRITING
Students will practice the basic handwriting strokes, pencil grip, and correct posture.
Drawing and Labeling Pictures

CORE KNOWLEDGE
Plants- kindergarteners will learn about the parts of a plant and what plants need to grow. We will be growing our own plants and completing an observation log.