November Newsletter

What We've Been Working On In November:
Language Arts: We have been working on words that have the short “a” sound in the middle. Students have also worked on blending and segmenting some more.


Reading: We read many stories about families this month. Students had a fun time connecting the stories to their own lives.

Math: Students have been working hard on their “tricky teens” this month. They have also had a lot of fun learning new games (Monster Squeeze, Domino Concentration, Roll & Record).

Science: We learned about turkeys from Miss Chrissy from Jasper County Conservation.

Social Studies: Kids learned about the differences betweenThanksgiving Feasts now and from long ago.

Handwriting Without Tears: The class has been working on uppercase letters (H, L, U, V, W, and X).

Please wash your child’s rest towel and remember to bring it back to school on Monday!
 
Important Dates:
December 6th– Candy Houses


December 15th-Winter Program

December 23-January 2nd–

Winter Break

What To Work On At Home:
Please help your child decorate the green tree and bring it back to school on the 28th.


Please work on reading the sight words.

Please work on recognizing numbers 0-30.

Fine motor skills to work on:

coloring, cutting, and writing their name and small words (3 letters in a word).





Please feel free to contact me at any time!


Phone Number:

(641) 792-2498 ext. 1548

Email:

holdenm@newton.k12.ia.us

Halloween Party!

Thank you to those parents who brought supplies in for our party! A special thank you to Lori and Marilyn for helping out at the party. The kids had such a fun time and this will be one of their school memories they will never forget.

Class Picture!

We decided to get a little goofy!

Andrew really focusing on winning Halloween Bingo.

Kaylynn and Lucas excited to hear the next item for Halloween Bingo.

Treyton and Hailey--does Treyton have bingo?

Another Halloween game!  The kids had fun cheering each other on!

Group 1 trying to figure out the Skeleton puzzle.

Group 2 focusing on getting done first!

Group 3 trying to figure out whose piece goes in the right spot.

Group 4 getting started.

Enjoying our yummy Halloween treats!

Awesome TK-K Team as the Black-eyed Peas! :)