October 27-31st Halloween and conference sign up info!

Hello,

We had a busy week! The students filled their heart jar (yup...AGAIN!) and voted on Fort Day (yup...AGAIN!). I am thinking we will do this on Thursday afternoon. I will send a reminder email for sheets!

CONFERENCES: The conference sign up will be linked on 10/27 after 12:00. I will post ours during my prep period around 12:30.

I will be sending home Scholastic Book order forms (look for them 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 11/14 if they arrive by then. 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 11/6.

This coming week-

Tuesday- bus evacuation practice in the morning, TOWN MEETING (7pm) in the evening!

Wednesday- is an early release day

Friday is Halloween- please read the important info: HERE is the information for room 103. I will keep you updated if there is any changes due to weather!

This week the children will:

Language Arts-

                                                                   
• practice all trick words learned to date
• learn to recognize, name and produce the sounds of letters p, j 
• identify the beginning sound in a word and listen if a word ends in the /p/  sound 
• put letters in ABC order
• match lower to upper case letters
• label their pictures 
• practice writing the letters learned to date with a multi-sensory approach 
• arrange word card to make simple sentences to practice sight words and 1:1 correspondence when reading
• 
  begin a new book in Wit and Wisdom:

This is how we write the letters j and p:

Math-

• counting forward to and backwards from 10
• drawing to represent an add/sub problem
• using objects to represent add/sub story
• using mental images to solve an add/sub problem
• matching numbers to quantity
• comparing numbers 0-10
• counting with 1:1 correspondence

Science-

• participate in a "Monster STEM" project on Friday
• continue our 5 senses unit
• practice and develop simple coding skills (we did not get to this last week!)

Social Emotional-

• second step lesson #9- same or different (it is ok if you are not exactly the same as your friends!). This will help the children understand the concept of acceptance.

Here are some pictures from last week!

Thank you to Ms. Deacon for reading to our class!

Science Center Fun!

Making Rainbows

recess fun💖

we had a community meeting
and Shakey told us that we will
have a cool BMX school assembly! 

feeding Ellie the elephant peanuts 
with pictures of things that 
begin with a p sound

proud of her efforts!!💓

Thank you to Mrs. Mann for being our Mystery Reader!
(and Logan, too:)

Making Ribbon Rs on Red!

MATH:creating number stories with both add/subtracting concepts using elephants and an equation

October 21-24 2025

elephants 

rainbows

 

Hello,

We had a great week! I couldn't take pictures at the Fun Run (😞) because I was running with my kiddos- BUT, they were ADORABLE! They had a great time and it was a super fun event for our school. The ladies who were volunteering did take a class photo and when I get a copy I will share it with you. The children were amazing while turning our classroom into a "Fort Town"- collaborating, problem solving and having a blast! 

FYI:

• As you probably have seen from Mrs. Kane's emails, Shaker Lane will be having a Halloween parade on 10/31 at 1:50. Families are invited to view the parade. 
• HERE is our class info regarding Halloween.
• Please note the sign up for the November 14th parent/teacher conferences will be released on 10/27. 
• This THURSDAY is a Shaker Lane spirit day- BE YOU Day (wear something that shows who you are or what you love (favorite color, team, hobby)
• This is a STEM challenge from Mrs. MacGregor!
  

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 #8 (Identifying anger)

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!

Learning a little about the "sky" and that the earth rotates around the sun
and the moon around the earth

FORT DAY💖

Using sand to practice our letter formation

A HUGE thank you to Mrs. Doyon for being our Mystery Reader!

learning to label our drawings!

making a Shaker Lane SCHOOL (great 
s word:) banner!