Important Dates & Reminders

• No school on: 
  • Thursday 10/03 
  • Friday 10/04 
  • Monday 10/14 
• 3 hour early release day on Monday 10/21
• Field trip to Cox Farms on 10/28, please sign all forms by 10/21 

What are we learning?

Language Arts

• Essential question: Why do plants and animals have needs? 
• We are learning to recognize letters. 
• We are learning that words are separated by spaces. 
• We are learning about directionality, we read from left to right. 
• We are learning to recognize rhyming words and to isolate phonemes. 
• We are learning about nouns. 

Math

• We are learning about the attributes of squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles. 
• We are learning about repeating patterns.

Science

• We are learning about the 5 senses and how to observe the world around us with them. 
• We are learning about shadows and how they are produced. 
• We are learning about pumpkins and their parts. 

Social Studies

• We are learning about making choices in Economics, as well as what a need and a want are. 
• We are learning about how to make healthy choices. 

Questions to ask your child at home.

• What do animals and plants need to survive? 
• What is the first sound in the word cat / bus / mill?
• What does a square / triangle / circle / rectangle look like? How many sides does it have? 
• What sense would you use if there was a fire around you? Why? 

Social Emotional Learning

• Students are using Second Step to learn how to be active listeners and how to be a kind friend.