October 26th- 30th 2026 HALLOWEEN INFO!

 

and...

Hello Families!

We had a busy week! The students filled their heart jar (yup...AGAIN!) and voted on Movie Day (yup...AGAIN!). I am thinking we will do this on Thursday afternoon. Trader Joe's only had one bag of movie theatre popcorn left when I went yesterday- I need to go back once they restock😆

CONFERENCES: The conference sign up will be linked on 11/2 after 12:00. I will post ours during my prep period around 1:00.

I will be sending home Nov/Dec. Scholastic Book order forms (look for them at the end of this week). If you would like to order books and would like it to be a surprise for your child for the holidays (or whatever), just let me know and I will set them aside when they come in and you can pick them up at our conference on 11/20. This is why I want to put the order in on the earlier side to make sure you get them:)  Otherwise, I will send them home in your child's backpack. The Scholastic Book Club is a great way to get amazing books at a fair price. Our classroom gets points for every dollar spent and I collect those points and get things for the classroom (like books, the little couch, academic games, supplies, etc). So, make sure to add our class code (it will be on the form coming home) if you choose to order! The orders will be due by 11/8. There won't be another order until after January.

This Week:

Wednesday- is an early release day

Thursday- movie and popcorn 

Friday- Halloween Parade (1:50) and party (for students only) immediately following. HERE is the information for room 103. I will keep you updated if there are any changes due to weather!

This week the children will:

Language Arts-

• learn a new "trick word" - see
• learn proper formation, produce the sounds of and recognize letters e, r
• match upper and lower case letters
• listen for beginning sounds and discriminate if the r sound comes at the beginning or ending in a words
• discriminate between words that begin with an /e/ sound and those that do not
• complete the mid unit Fundations assessment and the mClass assessment
• practice concepts of print
• practice producing rhyming words
• determine the essential meaning of a book
• label a picture with first sounds (and some last sounds!)

Math-

• review add/sub concepts through 5
• practice number writing 0-10
• sequence numbers 0-10
• counting to 20
• match numbers to quantity
• practice positional words
• draw to represent a number story

Social Emotional-

• second step lesson #9 (Same or Different)
• Social Thinking Lesson #5 (expected and unexpected behaviors)

Science-

• continue to discuss the characteristics of autumn
• continue to discuss how we learn from our 5 senses
• learn and practice basic coding skills by using a "robot"!

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

A huge thank you to Mr. Pereira for being 
out Mystery Reader!!

Acting out how the earth and moon orbit the sun

IMAGATORIUM: STEM stations

Making letters in sand and using "snakes" to show if the word begins with the /s/ sound or not

Practicing ABC order with a snake puzzle and putting the letters in order on Ollie the Octopus and Ms. Hannah (our intern from LHS!)

What a cool creation made at 
Creation Station! Thank you to all
who have sent in recycled materials.
The students are making good use of them!

October 19-23rd 2026

 

Hello Families!

The students were ADORABLE at the Fun Run and we all had a great time...they were quite tired by the end of the day😆.

The students were greeted by police and Shakey Friday am and started their day with a high five.

This coming week:

Monday- students are participating in mClass assessments (which looks at letter naming and sounds). The results of this assessment will be shared with you the week before conferences.

Tuesday- 

• don't forget your library book:)
• Will be our ALICE drill- a practice emergency exit and shelter in place drill. 

Friday- we are going to the Imagatorium!

FYI!

Halloween is fast approaching! 

• HERE is our class info regarding Halloween.

This week the students will:

Language Arts-

• Begin a new arc in Wit and Wisdom with the book:
• 
• Learn a new "trick word"- my
• write and learn the sounds of letters d, s
• use multi sensory activities (such as writing letters in sand) to demonstrate knowledge of skills
• distinguish the beginning sounds of words, especially words that begin with d and s, and some ending sounds!
• continue to add labels to pictures with appropriate letters
• produce rhyming words
• practice ABC order
• demonstrate understanding of concepts of print (how to hold a book, where is the title and title page, track words from left to right, etc:)

a quick video for proper pronunciation:)

the sound is NOT /duh/!

Math-

• write equations to show a subtraction/addition problem
• draw pictures to represent a subtraction/addition problem
• sequence numbers 0-10
• using dice and dominoes a lot (great d words)!
• counting and using 1:1 correspondence
• recognizing which number/amount is more/less

Science-

• discuss the characteristics of Autumn with a Let's Find Out
• continue learning about our 5 senses

Social Emotional-

• participate in Second Step lesson #8- identifying anger

this is the Second Step song we listen to...

• We will have our Social Thinking Lesson #4- being part of a group

Here are some pictures from last week:

THANK YOU Mr. Hergert for being
our Mystery Reader!

FUN RUN!

Making Alligator Puppets that say "AHHHH"

Our Shaker Lane Community Meeting
was focused on the "t" in HEART-
Taking Responsibility!

Exploring our 5 senses at the science
center

The class filled their heart jar and
voted to have movie and popcorn
day- They were so cute at their
"movie theatre"!

Language Arts:

only apples that have pictures of
things that begin with /a/ go in the 
apron

finding things that begin with the /g/ 
sound

Spot it, Dot it!

Apple Tree Letters
matching lower/uppercase letters 
with a partner

Adding Details to our pictures to make our writing more interesting