McKuras Memos
10-13-23
a visit with the frankfort fire department
A Peek at our Week
Writing: Our writers are learning how to bring their stories to life! They are working on making their characters move and talk. Instead of saying "I went down the hallway." they could say "I tiptoed down the hallway." They are adding dialogue to their stories by reminiscing about what was said during their event. They are also learning to make their characters think and feel. What big feelings did you have during this small moment of your life? Were you excited, scared, nervous, etc? Next week, we will study our mentor text Night of the Veggie Monster by George McClements. We will look at what he did as a writer and see how we can try those things in our stories.
Math: This week, we finished the first half of Module 1. Students worked hard on their first mid module assessment. They are not required to read any of the math assessment themselves and the directions are repeated many times, however, I am not allowed to help them on their work. These will be sent home to you next week. Next week, we will begin the second half of Module 1 which shifts to working with subtraction.
Word Study: This week, we focused on the short e sound. Students worked with consonant-vowel-consonant words both in isolation and in various decodable texts. We worked with the base word <help> and discovered words related to the base word (helps, helping, helped, helpful, etc.) We also worked with our first quarter sight words. Next week, we will focus on a review of all short vowels.
Doubles +1
Hispanic heritage month
Green fluency bags
FSP Fall book fair
picture retakes
Red Ribbon Week
Fall Party/parade details (October 31)
Parents/guardians/guests can start arriving at 9:00 AM for a 9:30 AM parade.
At 9:15, any of the 5 designated parent volunteers will be provided access to drop off party items to classrooms. The parade is scheduled to begin at 9:30 AM, so after the party helpers drop off items, we kindly request that you return to the gym for the parade. All other parade guests will be directed to the gym for the parade.
Parade from 9:30 – 10:00 AM.
Party to follow from 10:00 – 10:50 AM. An email to our Fall party parents was sent out on 10/6.
Please remember that there is an early dismissal on 10/31 (11:25). Car riders will walk out of the building around 11:15.
Veterans' Day Information
Classroom party planners/helpers
Fall-October 31-10:00-10:50-Teresa Cronin, Brigid Guevara, Bridget LaMothe, Kelly Glester, Jaci Freitag
Winter-December 22-12:40-1:30-Reivis Barileau, Jaime Doss, Ashley Swiercz, Cortni Burton, Janet Lepore
Valentine’s Day-February 14-1:30-2:25-Katherine Snow, Svetlana Reiss, Jaci Freitag, Amy Kens, Victoria Urdov
More information about party planning will come through email to the volunteers as we approach each party date. Thank you!
Dates to Remember
10/16/23-Bully Prevention presentation during P.E.
10/19/23-Band Boosters hot lunch (Giordano's)/Picture Retake Day/FSP Family Bookfair Night
10/23/24-Red or Blue, Let's think about YOU! Wear the color red or blue.
10/24/23-Protect your mind! Wear a favorite hat.
10/25/23-Get your head in the game! Wear your favorite sports team jersey/shirt.
10/26/23-Have the power to say no! Wear your favorite superhero shirt./Athletic Boosters hot lunch (Aurelio's)
10/27/23-Take care of you...rest your mind too! Wear your pajamas.
10/31/23-Fall parade/Fall Party/Early Dismissal
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Math Lessons
Module 1 Lesson 21
Upcoming lessons:
Monday-Lesson 25
Tuesday-Lesson 26
Wednesday-Lesson 27
Thursday-Lesson 28
Friday-Lesson 29
Feel free to work along with us at home using the Succeed math workbook!
Guest Readers
Please use the link below to sign up for Guest Reader.
Birthdays
Max 10/25
Star Students
The following students will share their Star Student poster with the class on Fridays:
10/20-Veda (poster comes home 10/13)
10/27-Hunter (poster comes home 10/20)
11/3-Luke G. (poster comes home 10/27)
Specials Schedule
Tuesday-Art
Wednesday-Music
Thursday-
Friday-STEM
P.E. is daily!
Recess 11:15-11:35/Lunch 11:35-11:55
Things to do at home
*Consonant, vowel, consonant words (read them and write them)...words like pet, cap, sit, log, sun, etc.
*Addition facts to 10 (any addition in which the sum is less than or equal to 10)
*Finish any problems on the daily problem set that are not yet completed.
*Complete the homework page for the daily math lesson.
*Go over the exit ticket and application problem.
E-Learning
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/96193387219?pwd=ejUxREpaZmw2VWFJMDBPWU8wV2FBUT09
Meeting ID: 961 9338 7219
Passcode: 367225
Allergy Awareness
Contact me
Email: kmckuras@fsd157.org
Website: https://www.fsd157c.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1670573&type=u&pREC_ID=2143454
Phone: 815-468-3366