We’ve had a busy and exciting week in Room 115! The students have been playing rhyming memory games and even made rhyming monsters! The monsters eat lots of things but only foods that begin with the /r/ sound. Therefore, pizza becomes rizza, numbers become rumbers, elephants become relephants, and zippers become rippers! The students enjoyed feeding their monsters all of those silly foods and many more! The monsters will go home soon for the children to practice this silly rhyming game with their families. Feel free to change the rules and make the monster eat foods that start with different sounds!
The students have been working on their “Mom and I Went to the Zoo” innovations. These will be completed this week and will go home as soon as the students read them to the class. Like the Brown Bear books that went home last month, I would encourage students to read them often!
In the art area, students decorated teddy bears for Halloween. I will try to post some pictures next week. They also finished their teddy bear masks, which we used for a special Teddy Bears' Picnic activity today. The students also made Readers' Theater masks of different zoo animals that they will use to act out "Polar Bear, Polar Bear" by Bill Martin, Jr. They will help write the script next week.
We finished our second topic in math and will be beginning our third one next week. Our focus will be on numbers 6-10. I would encourage you to review the daily math papers that are coming home with your child to help them get a little extra practice.
Our school’s safety officer will visit tomorrow to talk about bus safety. The students will have a chance to practice jumping out of the back of the school bus (with help from teachers and bus drivers), which is always very exciting!
I will be sending the November Parent Volunteer Calendar home the beginning of next week. If you are interested in volunteering in the classroom at all but haven’t emailed me, please do so by the weekend. Be sure to include which day(s) you are available. The volunteer time is 9:45-10:20am daily.
I will also be sending the Parent Conference Schedule home early next week. Thursday, December 1st is a conference day. There will be no school for students but I am looking forward to meeting with all of you. I will set up 20 minute conferences.
Francis Wyman will be having a Halloween Parade on Monday, October 31st at 9:00am for grades K-5. Students are welcome to come to school dressed in a costume for the parade if they wish to participate. They can bring a change of clothes for after the parade. Please let me know ahead of time if you do not want your child to participate. Parents are invited to watch the parade in the gym. It’s a lot of fun!
I hope you have a great weekend!
Melanie Duncan
PS...Your children all looked so beautiful and handsome on Picture Day. I can’t wait to see their pictures!
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