News for Next Week

Announcements:

Please view the video at the link below from our director of curriculum which helps explain reading plans for students below grade level due to legislation. We will discuss more at conferences.
https://youtu.be/QageP9OLfjI

As the weather becomes colder please make sure children have appropriate gear for lunch recess. We go to recess at 10:45 and it is still very chilly. Please label coats, hats, gloves, etc to the best of your ability!

Lake Orion Book Drive: Do you have outgrown or unread books clogging up your shelves at home? You can put those books into the hands of young readers by donating them to the annual Lake Orion book drive! Simply bring ANY used or new books, from infant to adult, to the collection bin at your child's school. Staff will collect and sort donations and Preschool through 12^th grade teachers will be invited to select books for classroom use. Books not adopted into classrooms will be donated to local literacy programs. Our book drive has placed thousands of books in to the hands of Lake Orion students over the years! Bring books anytime now through November 28.  Thank you and happy reading!

Conferences: I look forward to seeing you next week for parent teacher conferences. If you cannot make your time or need to reschedule please let me know ASAP. Please knock when you are here, if it is your exact time, to keep me on track. I will ask you to write your child a compliment on his or her published piece of writing that is hanging outside our door either before while you are waiting for your conference or after when your conference has finished.

This week

Reader’s will…

• Use snap words as clues to think about what makes sense
• Solve mystery words by thinking of similar snap words
• Turn new words into snap words
• Become a class of word collectors
• Scoop up words to make their reading sound smooth

Writer’s will…

• Begin our all about nonfiction unit
• Tell information across their fingers, sketch, then write
• Keep readers in mind writing to answer questions
• Elaborate by writing twin sentences
• Teach with pictures as well as words (diagrams, labels)

Mathematicians will…

• Relate addition and subtraction stories
• Solve mixed problems
• Review positional words

In science we will continue to explore animals. We will look closely at how animals survive in the winter.  

Specials This Week:

      Monday: Art
Tuesday: Media
Wednesday: Music
Thursday: P.E.
Friday: Art

Dates to Remember:

• November 9th – 17th – Book Fair (send money in FROG Binder)
• November 13th – 6:15 p.m. Principal Coffee, 7:00 p.m. PTO Meeting
• November 14th and 16th – Parent/Teacher Conferences
• November 16th – ½ day for Students (No P.M. Latchkey)
• November 22, 23, and 24 – No School

Pictures from the Week:

 

Meagan and Mitchel teaching us about their expert topics

Angie and Eni teaching us how to count in Chinese during Angie's presentation All About China.

Celebrating the end of How-To writing by reading to Mrs. Burks' kindergarten friends