Important Dates
November 8: No School (Election Day)
November 11: Veteran's Day Assembly @ 9AM
November 18: Friendsgiving Celebration @ 12:45PM
November 23-25: No School (Holiday-Thanksgiving)
Reminders
** As the weather is getting colder, please remember to send your child with a coat each day. Following the county policy, students are permitted to go outside if the weather is 32 degrees or above, weather permitting. Please ensure your child's jacket is labeled with their name.
Please remember to check Class Dojo and your child's Blue Folder each day. We will be posting updated and sending home important information. If you need to send notes or contact your child's teacher, these are the best ways to get a hold of us. As always, dismissal changes will need to go through the office by 1:45 PM that day.
Please be sure that your child wears sneakers on the day they have P.E.
Bleutge- Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday
Campbell- Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
Lewis- Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
Mocello- Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
Villa- Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday
Please return library books on your child's library day.
Bleutge- Friday
Campbell- Monday
Lewis- Tuesday
Mocello- Wednesday
Villa- Friday
Learning Corner
Check out what we'll be learning!!
Letter Identification
Letter Sounds
Recognizing Letters (In tracing journals and written text)
Snap Words (Sight Words)
Unit 1: We are Readers
Unit 2: Super Powers
Writing
Proper Letter Formation
Writing First Names
Drawing Pictures
Labeling Pictures
Stretching out words and adding more letters to our labels.
Parts of a Sentence (Capital Letter, Finger Spaces, Period)
Unit 1 & Unit 2
Phonics
Learning New Letters and Sounds
Learning Letters in Our Names
Vowels and Consonants
Looking at Different Alphabet Charts
Finishing Unit 1: Making Friends with Letters
Moving into Unit 2: Word Scientists
Math
Counting to 20 (with 1-1 correspondence)
Writing Numbers to 20
Shapes: Identifying, Describing, Classifying and Sorting
Comparing Size
Sorting by One Attribute
Social Science
Needs and Wants
Science
Matter
Matter with Math
Force & Motion
Support Learning at Home
Please continue to support students with writing their names using uppercase and lower case letters, as well as numbers without reversals.
We encourage you to support your child's learning at home with the November Reading Log.
Click on the blue words above for a Disguise A Turkey Activity that you can do with your child at home! There are printable and digital versions of the activity. After you "hide" your turkey, have your child write a sentence about it!
Second Step Home Links
Overview of Lessons we will be going over in November
Lesson 6: Sometimes We Feel Happy
Summary
In this week’s lesson, your child will learn to use body language and context clues to figure out when someone feels happy. They’ll practice looking at the person’s face and body, as well as thinking about what’s going on in the situation.
Try This at Home
Encourage your child to notice when others around them feel happy. Have them practice using body language and context clues to figure out when family members, friends, or characters in books, movies, or on TV might be feeling happy.
Imagine Neighborhood
Listen with your child to the Imagine Neighborhood Podcast, Season 2, Episode 5: Alakazambra!
Lesson 7: Sometimes We Feel Sad
Summary
In this week’s lesson, your child will learn to use body language and context clues to figure out when someone feels sad. They’ll practice looking at the person’s face and body, as well as thinking about what’s going on in the situation.
Try This at Home
Encourage your child to notice when others around them feel sad. Have them practice using body language and context clues to figure out when family members, friends, or characters in books, movies, or on TV might be feeling sad.
Lesson 8: Sometimes We Feel Mad
Summary
In this week’s lesson, your child will learn to use body language and context clues to figure out when someone feels mad. They’ll practice looking at the person’s face and body, as well as thinking about what’s going on in the situation.
Try This at Home
Encourage your child to notice when others around them feel mad. Have them practice using body language and context clues to figure out when family members, friends, or characters in books, movies, or on TV might be feeling mad.
Lesson 9: We Can Feel Calm
Summary
In this week’s lesson, your child will learn two ways to help themselves feel calm when they encounter strong feelings: asking for help and slow breathing.
Try This at Home
Ask your child to tell you some ways they’ve learned to feel calm when they get upset. Have them teach you how to use slow breathing to feel calm.
Imagine Neighborhood
Listen with your child to the Imagine Neighborhood podcast, Season 1, Episode 2: The Clouds Are Made of Cake.
Also the short summer episode: Summer Slow Breaths.
