Weekly Update

Info To Know

• Please be sure your little darling has 20 dimes for her math tool kit. We need these this week for our 'Dimes' lesson.
• Please return your picture packages. Remove the pictures that you wish to purchase and return the unwanted pictures to school.
• Stone Mountain permission slips are due by Wednesday, November 10th.
• Thanks to all of the awesome volunteers that make all of our classroom endevours possible!! Field trip chaperones, daily volunteering within the classroom, at-home task takers, supply donations, room parent, class photographers...the list is endless. THANK YOU!!
• No poetry notebooks came home because we didn't have sufficient time to complete this week's centers and have-tos. These will continue next week and include a second poem. Look for 'Lunch Box' & 'Vote for Me' next week.
• We are collecting tote bags, backpacks, and reusable lunch bags for the people of Haiti. Please send these in as you can.

Academic Update

• This week our field trip was tiring, but so AWESOME! We were able to see an expansive recycling center and international market. Our healthy snack was really enjoyed by all...the pomegranates were the overall favorite! This week we also learned more strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems. We can use the number grid and number line to help us and see patterns when using frames and arrows. Also, we worked with clocks to tell time to the half hour. We have begun our writing of our class book with heroes as our topic. We have brainstormed, written a rough draft, and are in the beginning stages of revision. Also, we learned about proper and regular nouns.
• Next week we begin creating our partner dioramas. We have enough shoeboxes; now the girls will need to brainstorm ideas and bring items to place within them to show what they have learned in Nature's Needs. This will be a main focus of our week. We will also continue the revision process for our book pages and continue the same centers and have-to labs, as we didn't have enough time to complete them this week. In math, we will continue lessons using frames and arrows, introduce the dime, and use our calculators.

Quick Weekly Update

• School is closed next week, October 11-15 for Fall Break. Enjoy the beautiful weather and time off.
• Use the AR website to check if books your little darling is reading at home can be tested. Upon our return, we will be able to test on any AR books read.
• Thanks to our Pumpkin Patch chaperones and Pumpkin Math volunteers! It was great to learn so much about pumpkins!
• Next week in our PYP unit will be humans and their needs!
• Please sign and return the report card envelope only! Keep the enclosed documents.
• Don't forget to return the red homework and poetry notebooks on Monday, Oct. 18th!
• DeKalb Farmer's Market permission slips and monies are due NO later than Tuesday, Oct. 19th....that is the week of our return from fall break!!!

Weekly Update

News to Know

• Wednesday is a Half Day with Noon Dismissal. We eat lunch on half days so please be sure to send your daughter with a lunch.
• Tuesday is our first field trip to The Pumpkin Patch. The P. Kok Pride should wear jeans, our new t-shirts, and comfortable walking shoes. Please also pack a lunch in all disposable containers. Our next trip will be to the Farmer's Market at the end of the month. Permission slips and info will come home on Tuesday.
• There will be no reading groups this week due to the field trip and noon dismissal on Wednesday.
• We will need help on Thursday afternoon for Pumpkin Math! If you are able to help us out on Thursday from 12:30 - 2:00 please let us know.
• Book It! has begun! Our first grade reading goal is to read at least 20 minutes for at least 25 days/nights in each month. This should be recorded in the agenda on the monthly page.
• Our school nurse is in need of first aid supplies. If you have items to donate, please send them in and we will forward them or you can contact her directly. pamela.hobbs@imagineschools.com
• Each Wednesday is Chinese Book checkout day. Thanks to Mr. Cook for making our needed CDs!
• We will be gardening twice per month with Joel Gerber our gardener-in-residence! I think the girls might benefit by having a large, old over sized shirt at school for 'messy' days (art, too). Please send those in, labelled.
• Scholastic Book orders are due on Tuesday.
• Silly Socks may be worn on Monday.