Nov. 10-14 2025: CONFERENCE WEEK!

 

Hello!

We will begin a new module in Wit and Wisdom and our "essential question" will be "What Makes a Good Story?" and we will be answering this using a FARM theme.

This week we will review letters l, h, k and learn a new trick word: is. We will continue to distinguish the beginning sound in words and sequencing a story. The children will be learning how to add more sounds in their writing.

    

This is how we pronounce and write our new letters

using our Fundations pictures and lines

In math, we will be practicing matching numbers 6-10 with quantities, writing those numbers and will be working with 10 frames a lot! 

In Social Studies, the children will learn a little about Veteran's Day and the farm community. The children will participate in a Second Step lesson about caring and helping. Here is a link to a home link about our lesson if you want to practice at home!

This Week:

• Monday- A Shaker Lane spirit day: AMERICA DAY! Students are invited to wear red, white and blue
• Tuesday- NO SCHOOL
• Thursday is picture retake day 
• Friday is parent/teacher conferences. I am looking forward to seeing you! If you haven't signed up by Thursday morning, I will assume you do not want to conference at this time, which is fine (I don't hunt people down-😂). If you need to change your time, please try to do so by Thursday. Because of the busy schedule, I have everything organized in order of the conferences and I do not have time to check the sign up on Friday. If you can't make your conference time, please call the office so that they can let me know as soon as possible. If you are requesting a virtual conference, please log on right at your time so that it does not interrupt a potential conference before you. Please note that the conferences are for caretakers/teachers only. If you need to bring your child, I can set up a table in the hall with some activities for him/her. We only have 15 minutes and it goes by quickly so, as much as I would love to visit with my student, it is your time!😊

       HERE is the virtual link for conferences (it is also on the sign up)

Here are some pictures of last week:

We celebrated the end of our W&W module on the 5 senses with a popcorn party! The children were amazed when the kernels "popped" into popcorn-We used all 5 of our senses😁

making number sentences with horses

Novel Engineering at the Imagatorium!

Language Arts- reading sight word books, identifying beginning sounds 

Coding Mouse

creation station fun!

A HUGE thank you to Locke's
grandparents for being Mystery Readers!

A HUGE thank you to Levi's sister for being 
our Mystery Reader!

Making a leaf character to compliment the book Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert- be sure to check out our hall bulletin board when you come in for conferences!

Wit and Wisdom End of Module Task

Nov. 3-7th 2025: Cultural Fair, Food Drive and MORE!

Hello Families!

I cannot believe we are in November...This month is going to be quite fractured, which is tough for consistency in the classroom. We have been working really hard on listening to teacher directions and following those directions. The students are also working on not talking out of turn. Overall, the children are understanding what "independent work time" looks like and sounds like. They are getting so good at the routines and I love seeing the friendships forming! I have a lot to talk to you about at our November conference...(hint to sign up😂).

Starting on Monday, we will have Mrs. Mondal in our classroom. Mrs. Mondal is studying to be a teacher! She will be doing some of her student teaching in our room for the month of November. I am super excited to have her and I told her we have THE BEST class from which to learn!💖 I KNOW she will fall in love with kindergarten- it's where the magic happens!

Also starting on Monday- our food drive begins! In 2 of the recent Wit and Wisdom books, there has been an emphasis on soup kitchens and bringing joy to those in need. We have been discussing soup kitchens and what they do for a community. Room 103 had decided we would do a can drive and then we found out that Shaker Lane is beginning a food drive on Monday, too! So, it is perfect timing to teach the children to give to their community in need. It is our small way of bringing some joy to those in need, which is what the characters in our books were doing. We are collecting food items in cans/boxes until Dec. 1.

This coming week:

• Monday- FOOD DRIVE BEGINS!
• Tuesday- no school for students
• Wednesday- Scholastic Book Orders are due  https://orders.scholastic.com/H939Y (let me know if you want me to set them aside for holiday gifts)
• Wednesday- Family Cultural Night 5:00-7:00 at SL (this a super fun family event where students are exposed to lots of different cultures!)

In Language Arts, students will:

• learn a new sight word: my
• practice ABC order
• match upper/lower case
• identify beginning sounds in words (and the letter of that sound if learned formally)
• listen for and try to identify the ending sound in a word
• retell a story (about Mama and Baby Echo)
• complete our end of module task in Wit and Wisdom (look for all our module 1 work to come home at the end of this week)
• learn letters h, k, and l

    

This is how we pronounce and write our new letters

using our Fundations pictures and lines

In Math, students will:

• review module 6 and take unit 1 assessment
• use mental images to show adding to 5
• use mental images to show subtraction through 5
• solve word problems to 5
• count and compare numbers to 10
• sequencing numbers

Science

• continue to practice coding skills
• complete our unit on the 5 senses

Social Studies

• complete our digital citizenship lessons
• begin our food drive for our community!

Second Step (SEL):

• #10- accidents 

Here are some pictures from last week's fun and learning:

Language Arts with a Halloween and pumpkin theme: putting pictures of things that start with /p/ on the scarecrow in the pumpkin patch, clapping syllables, reading sentences with our trick words, reading a book to our book buddies and matching beginning sounds to letters

MATH with a Halloween theme: making number stories (both add/sub) and writing the equation, making patterns, counting objects 

HALLOWEEN!

not quite complete- we are missing Phoenix and Natalie....:(

Thank you to all the parents who donated to our special snack! We enjoyed every yummy bite😋

Millie was dressed as a Fire Woman
because October is Fire Prevention Month!

getting ready to parade:)

the parade!

at the sing along

STEM Monster Challenge- can you make a monster that can stand up on 3 legs?

CHOICE TIME:

FORT DAY!

coding mouse robots 

Making haunted houses and 5 little pumpkins on a gate (practicing those fine motor skills!)