Sanders' Sunflowers
Classroom Newsletter
Week of Oct. 27-31, 2013
Upcoming Dates and Events
Oct. 31 -students wear costumes (no masks)
Nov.1 - Parent/Teacher Conference Day: students do not attend
Nov. 11- Veteran's Day celebration
Nov. 12- makeup pictures
Nov. 27-29 - Thanksgiving Break
Information and Reminders
- Thank you to all the parents who spent a day chaperoning our field trip. I really appreciate your help.
- Students can wear a costume on Thursday. Please no masks or scary outfits.
- We will have a Halloween hunt this Thursday around the school. The students will get to use the ipads to read the clues in the hall.
- There will be no reading response journal due this week.
- I am sending home the new reading log for the 2nd nine weeks.
Important Connections and Links
This is a direct link to my email and my website. I have also included the school's phone number.
Email: sandersr@anderson1.k12.sc.us
Website: http://www.anderson1.k12.sc.us/Domain/658
Phone: 864-850-5950
Reading
There is no new story this week. We will be reviewing our reading skills using pumpkin stories in class.
Skills this week:
- reading words with th at the beginning and ending (bath, third)
- ABC order
- Identifying the characters, setting, main idea and details in a story
- Proper nouns and common nouns
The students will not have a spelling and sight word test this week.
Sight Words to Review in Class this Week
1. by 2. why 3. came 4. come 5. went 6.want
7. of 8. if 9. when 10. where 11. who 12. they
Math
This week we will begin a new math chapter. The students will begin learning new addition strategies to add to 20. We will learn to 'count on' and use a number line to 'count on'.
Science
This week we will continue our science unit on force and motion. We will work on the position of objects and forces that push and pull.
Homework
Mon. - math sheet
Tues. sight word sentence practice sheet
Spelling City Directions
Spelling City Directions
- Log on to spellingcity.com
- Click on the tab at the top labeled “Find a List”
- On the line “Enter Search Term” : type Renee Sanders
- On the line “Search by” select “teacher name”
- Select the one for the story we are reading in class that week.
- Find your child's spelling list (yellow or green) according the color of the list in his/her spelling notebook.