Greetings from Room B-6!

Halloween:

Halloween parties will be Friday October 27 from 2-3pm. Your child will bring their costume in a bag and change into it in the classroom. (I unfortunately will be absent on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at a PYP International Baccalaureate Training at Einstein High School, but I’m sure the substitute will be wonderful! And Mrs. Valeria and other moms have been planning some fun and engaging Halloween activities for the children). After the party the high school kids have been planning a haunted house with all proceeds going towards Habitat for Humanity. I believe their festivities begin at 5:00PM. Also, on Friday there are NO extra curricular activities.

Inquiry:

The students have made a list of questions they want to ask other classes here at AC about migration. They are surveying the other classes in small groups and then we will compile all the answers onto an appropriate data display (bar graph or pie chart). Interviewing skills are being practiced a lot by your children and they’re doing a great job.

Math:

We’re moving into Addition and subtraction facts 0-18 and using strategies to solve the math problems that make sense. We’ve also working on simple addition with regrouping problems. Many of the children are struggling with this in school. It’s a difficult concept. Please be patient with your children at home. I explain that the double digit number has 2 places (TENS and ONES). The ones must always go into the ones house and the tens up above in the tens house. We’ll get it with lots of practice in the classroom.

Writer’s Workshop:

We’re working on increasing our vocabulary in WORD CHOICE. We’re making a list of smile words that kids can use as a resource for writing. We’re also writing our country reports having to do with Migration.

Guided Reading:

As our focus is migration, kids are reading books that have to do with people migrating, what they leave behind and what they maintain. Kids are also learning a lot about history as many of the books are in the genre of Historical Fiction.

Language Arts:

Our focus this week is on Cause/Effect. We’re reading the “If you Give a Mouse a Cookie” series of books and then the kids are generating their own examples of cause and effect.

Happy Halloween!

Ms. Rachel