Dear Parents,

Wow, where did October go?  We have been very busy learning our letters, numbers, shapes, colors, writing our names, and classroom manners for the past two months.  Your children are making great progress and I enjoyed talking to all of my parents for the parent/teacher conferences. Thank you for caring so much!

With the holidays coming so quickly, we will be so busy getting ready for the holidays. They will be here before you know it!  Please try to send your child to school every day.  With some of the crafts, it is very hard to backtrack to get them done.  We will be making Harvest trees, turkeys, Indian necklaces, Thanksgiving placemats plus getting a head start on your Christmas gifts.  I know you will love the very special gifts being made for you.

This month, we will begin our annual Operation Christmas Child (OCC) fundraiser. You will be getting more information about this from the office.   

In our culture class, we will be exploring Germany. This country is so interesting with its different holiday traditions and customs. Since we have so many holidays in November and December, we will be studying this country both months.  

This month we will be concentrating on the letters Nn, Mm, Hh, and Kk. We will continue to learn the sounds and practice writing the letters.  The Core Knowledge Skills are listed on our website to help with what your child is learning this month.  Please check your child’s folder nightly for their work with these letters.   Notices for the Sound box and bible verse will be in there also.  They really enjoy the Soundbox activity!

Special notices

***At this point of the year we have learned 6 letters and 0-6 for the numbers.  Please review each night with your student.  It would only take 5-10 minutes for them to show you what they have learned.  Practice and review will help them so much in their academic life.

***Our days are beginning to get a little cooler, please make sure your child has a jacket for recess.   Unless it is raining, we will be going outside.  The kids really need to run and play with their friends.

Thank you for sharing your children with me and I hope your family has a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Mrs. Lesyk



November Overview



Bible

November 4-5- Battle of Jericho; “I am at your command,” Joshua said.  “What would you like your servant to do?” Joshua 5:14

November 9-12 David and Goliath- “The Lord is with me, I will not be afraid.” Psalm 118:6

November 16-19- Daniel and the Lion’s Den; “God rescues and He saves, He performs signs and wonders.” Daniel 6:27

November 23-24 Jonah and the Whale; “From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the Lord his God.” Jonah 2:1

November 29-December 2 Baby Jesus- “Today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you.  He is Christ the Lord.”  Luke 2:11

Language Arts

November 3-4- Review

November 8-11-N,n

November 15-18- M,m

November 22-25- H,h

November 29-December 2-K,k

We will be writing Thanksgiving cards to the parents.

Discussing different feelings and continuing our feelings board.

Game- Identify objects in our room with quantitative words.

**We will continue the Soundbox Books by Jane Moncure

Math

We will work with the number 7-9. 

Our writing strokes will be moon and cross.  To help with this, we will be drawing pictures with our new shapes.

Using Fruit Loops, we will be sorting by color.

Using dice and “gems” add the numbers and count out the gems.

Classify shapes

Science and Nature

Continue with charting the weather.

Discuss the shorter days and longer nights of Fall.

Discuss the differences in clothing for the Indians and Pilgrims in different weather.

Talk about how the Indians and Pilgrims lived.

Social Studies

We will talk about the upcoming election and actually vote for a classroom treat.  Democracy at work!

Discuss Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving and the Mayflower.

Culture class

Began studying Germany’s culture. The students will enjoy learning about

Crafts- windmill, gingerbread house, gingerbread people

Crafts

Thanksgiving placemats

Indian necklaces and headbands

Harvest Trees

Turkeys

November

1                 No school

2                 No school

3                 Voting

4                 Operation Christmas Child (OCC) begins

17               End of Operation Christmas Child

23               Hat Day

24-25          Thanksgiving break. School closed

Typical Daily Schedule:

9:30 - Welcome and opening prayer

10:00 - Circle Time (Calendar, weather, introduce letters, etc.)

10:30 - Bathroom break

10:45 - Cultures on Monday; Monday afternoon introduce Handwriting without Tears, write letters and Bible on Tuesday, Letter craft on Wednesday, Thursday review weekly letter with Soundbox and math/ science, etc.

11:35 - Lunch

12:05 - Centers

12:25 - Monday cultures, Tuesday - Thursday Science or Math review

12:40 - Bathroom Break

12:50- 1:15 - Recess

1:25 - Closing prayer and dismissal