- Notes from Ms. Rau:
- Webber Student Council Invites You to Help Honor America’s Veterans! On Wednesday, November 7th, we will be raising money for GI Go Fund. Students that donate $1 or more can wear a hat to school on this day. Staff members that donate $5 or more get to wear jeans to work. Each participant will receive a sticker that recognizes their participation in this event. For more information check out this site: https://www.gigo.org/
- Webber Student Council is hosting a Food Drive November 12th through November 16th. All donations will go to the Lake Orion Lions Club. We are accepting the following donations: mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, muffin mix, mushroom soup, evaporate milk, turkey gravy, canned pumpkin, pie crust, canned fruit, Jell-O, and any other non-expired, non-perishable food.
- As part of our new phonics program our class acquired Rasheed the lion, a mascot who helps us with our word work. Rasheed will take on many roles this year (including detective, construction worker, and super hero, among others) as he helps us learn to read and spell. To help Rasheed look the part, I am asking for donations of any clothing or accessories that may fit him. He is a stuffed animal about 13 inches tall, with a torso about 5 inches high and 5 inches wide. Most clothing for infants, Build a Bear animals, and American Girl dolls should fit Rasheed. Even small dog outfits might work! If you have any bits and pieces at home that you would be willing to donate, the class would enjoy dressing him up. This is just for fun, so please don’t purchase anything new for Rasheed. Thank you!
- 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 12th 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!
- Important Dates To Remember:
- Nov. 6th - Election Day, no school for students.
- Nov. 13th & 15th Parent Teacher Conferences. You can view your date and time on the sign up genius link here . I will send a reminder note at the end of next week.
- Nov. 27-29th No School, Happy Thanksgiving!
- Learning For The Week:
- Writers will...
- learn that they are experts in day to day tasks (i.e. brushing teeth, making bed, getting ready for school)
- think about every single step
- count steps across fingers to plan how-to books
- learn from mentor texts
- Mathematicians will begin Unit 3. They will...
- explore unknown partners using math mountains
- solve story problems with unknown partners
- solve equations with unknown partners
- Readers will...
- read words in a snap
- receive mini word walls in their book bag
- use snap words as clues to think about what makes sense
- solve mystery words by thinking of similar snap words
- Scientists will begin a new unit called Feature Factor. They will...
- explore types of seeds and notice differences and similarities
- review what plants need in order to survive
- observe fruits and vegetables from plans
- investigate what the adult plant looks like from the seed
- Photos from last week:
Science Experiment inside of our pumpkin that we carved!
Learning to read AND write words that have silent e's at the end.
Teaching students how to make popcorn for our How-To writing immersion. We used the air server on the ipad so students could see above the popper on the projector.
Scientists observe apples.
Happy Halloween from Room 6!
