Weekly News Sept 26-30

Last week we learned about and practiced many safety drills at school.  These conversations of course sparked many questions about emergencies and being prepared.  With all of this fresh in your child's mind, this might be a great time to review safety plans in your own home!  We really had a wonderful learning and growing together!

Our classroom rules are now written and posted proudly for all of us to follow!
Our rules are:
1. Take care of yourself.
2. Keep things nice and neat.
3. Treat others how you would like to be treated.
4. Everyone gets to learn and play.


Important Dates and Reminders:
October 18: Grandfriends Family Night (please sign up online)
October 19: Field trip to Heckrodt and Fire Station
October 27-28th: NO SCHOOL

PSC News

Did you know? The PSC gives a Birthday Book to each NDLC student during the school year. Make sure to ask your child about it near their birthday (or half-birthday)!

Join us! The next PSC meeting is Monday, October 3, at 6 pm in the school library.

Questions? Email NDLC.PSC@gmail.com

Here's a peek at our learning this week:

Reading: It was very exciting to move into "reading" old favorite storybooks last week.  One way to support this work at home is by reading stories that are familiar to your child over and over and over again until it becomes a story they can 'read' on their own.   We are continuing our work in storybooks in the classroom as well, trying to say even more on every page to make our words match the text and connecting pages to make our reading sound even more grown up by using phrases like "and then" and "after that."

Writing  This week we will be learning to write true stories! This means we will be taking an event from our lives, telling that story and then working to show it in pictures and words across three pages. We will practice this work as a class be writing a few class “true stories” together.  As true story writers we will need to do ALOT of story telling to help us say what happened first, next and last.  We will also use our writing folders to help us generate ideas for our true stories.

Math: In math this week our focus will shift from showing number quantity to comparing number quantity.  We will learn about a new math tool called a comparing mat that will help us to distinguish numbers as greater than and less than.  We will also be exploring and classifying shapes.  This week we will focus on the characteristics of circles, squares and rectangles.  Our math centers will be: using a comparing mat with tiles to observe number size, creating our own counting books, sorting shapes and using tiles to begin some work with adding.

Social Studies: Now that we are settling into the normal routines of school and have built the foundation for our classroom community, we will be kicking off our first social studies unit.  This unit is a School Study.  This week we will build some background on our school study and list all the different jobs that people in our school do.  We will formulate interview questions and the boys and girls will do a practice interview on me and Mrs. Steif, our reading specialist.  In the coming weeks we will take many tours and conduct interviews of these people to learn all about our school.