November 1, 2023

 November 1, 2023

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Wednesday, November 1st: two hour delayed opening, No School for PreK
• Friday, November 3rd: Picture Retake Day
• Frates/Coyle Parent Teacher Conferences-Monday, 11/6, Tuesday, 11/7, Wednesday, 11/8 and Tuesday 11/14
• Friday, November 10th: No School, Veteran' Day   
• Monday November 13th: No School, Teacher Professional Development
• Thanksgiving Break  Wednesday - Friday, 11/22, 11/23, 11/24 
• Tuesday, November 28th: Trimester 1 ends

We had a great celebration of Show and Tell.  Colin brought in his frog which was a big hit. 

Reading Workshop:

We continue to practice fluency.  Everyone is making progress and enjoying using expression, accuracy and punctuation by reading and performing Readers Theatre.

In Fundations, we are working on syllable types (currently closed syllables), suffixes, bonus letters and vowel teams.  After learning each new rule we then practice writing and marking words, highlighting words we notice and finding words in a wordsearch.  

Math:

In math we are working on place value.  We have made groups of ten with our digi-blocks and counted by 100 all the way to 1,000.  The students were able to see how many tens in 100 and how many hundreds in 1,000.  This is a key tool we have been using to solve both addition and subtraction story problems within 1,000.  It is a work in progress at this time.  The kids are working hard while learning a new skill.  

Thank you to those who sent back their October Encouragement Homework sheet.  Some kids were excited about showing us the spelling words they practiced and how much they read.  We are sending home a November Encouragement sheet this week with the hopes that it helps with any friction at home when you ask your child to practice reading and possibly practicing spelling words as well as play math games. We'd love to hear if this sheet is helping you at home.  

Sadly, it is time for us to say good-bye to our Student Teacher Paitra Martin.  She has been with us since the first day of school and leaves on November 19th.  She has made incredible connections with all kids, is a very capable teacher and has been a pleasure to have in class.  We are lucky enough to add her to our lunch crew in the cafeteria until she finds a teaching job.  She will be with us for conferences so you will have an opportunity to say good-bye and thank you.  BEST OF LUCK PAITRA!  YOU WILL BE AN INCREDIBLE TEACHER WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR OWN CLASSROOM.  

We look forward to seeing all of you for parent conferences.  Please feel free to contact us at any time if you have any questions or concerns.  We are enjoying our year and look forward to seeing everyone's continued progress.  

Betsy, Kelsey and Paitra