October 2, 2014

Hello families and friends,

Today we continued working on our Buddy Reading skills and talked about what good Read to Someone looks like.  Then in word work we worked on the "brother" sound to our /f/ sound that we learned yesterday.  Ask your child about what they did.  After that, we worked on a patterning activity where the students had to extend patterns and create their own pattern that follows the same rule as one given for them.

In the afternoon we continued looking at the Writing Process by doing steps 3 and 4; Conferencing, Editing and Revising, and Publishing and Sharing.  Then we learned more about leaves by becoming veins.  We had to work together to send the "water" down to the edge of our leaf, and we learned about why leaves have so many veins and why they have so many that connect and go to the same places.  Ask your child about this.  Finally, we have been spending some time talking about things that we care about and ways that we can care for, and show that we care for, these things.  Today we took it back to ways that we care for ourselves.  

What is one way that you are taking care of yourself tonight?  Post your answer in the comments below.

Halloween Howler order forms have gone home; return those as soon as possible if you would like tickets as supplies are short.  Fun Lunch orders for October and November are available online, and instructions for this were sent out in the October Newsletter.

Have a great evening,
Mr. Soulliere