Happy October!

I can’t believe another week has flown by and that it’s already October! This week especially I have noticed huge improvements, they are learning so much! Something you could be practicing at home that would greatly benefit us in class is finding page numbers within a book. Some have got it down, others could use some practice. Any book will do and just ask them to open up to a page (even within triple digits through 100).

Many papers went home on Friday! Please take some time to look through them and review them with your child. A note also went home about picture day; it is on October 11. Finally, below is information on our reading program for the week (We will be starting this story on Wednesday). Have a great three-day weekend!

Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.)	Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
Animals: How are people and animals important to one another?	What can we learn about wild animals by watching them?
Phonics Skills (These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)	Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Short u (ŭ) Final consonant blends	Short u with final consonant blends: bump   crust   dusk   dust   hunt   jump   just   lump   must  trust
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
home    many    them    into	elephants   hippos   park   zebras
Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.)	Handwriting Practice (Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
world   forest   desert   chatter  silent   snort   medicine   poisonous	Uu, Qq Letter spacing