McKuras Memos
10-27-23
A Peek at our Week
Writing: This week, we wrapped up our work with personal narratives! Students worked hard to revise and edit their best stories. They got them ready to celebrate with their classmates next week. We will then be moving on to our next writing unit, which is writing How To books. Students can begin thinking of things they know how to do that they can teach to others!
Math: This week, we continued working with subtraction (and related addition number sentences. Students are practicing solving number stories and writing an addition number sentence and a subtraction number sentence that share the same number bond. We took our 5 group drawings and turned them vertical this week. Then we crossed off circles to show the part being taken away. Next week, we will continue to work with subtraction as we get closer to the end of Module 1.
Word Study: This week we reviewed CVC words. We worked on decoding and writing CVC words as well as our Quarter 1 sight words. Next week, we will move onto working with digraphs, beginning with <ch>
Field trip...Last Call! Names will be selected and emailed out on Monday.
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.
FSD 157c coming together to support our troops
Dear 157-C Families,
During the month of November, our student body will join forces to honor our heroes, our veterans and current service members. We welcome you to join our efforts!
Grand Prairie will be collecting items for packages for current servicemen and women. Collections will start on November 1 and will end on November 10. Donations can be sent to school with your child or dropped off at the main office. These boxes will arrive in time for the holidays. Let’s come together and see how many packages we can send this holiday season! Please contact Lori McCurdy lmccurdy@fsd157c.org or Lori Stanevicius lstanevicius@fsd157c.org at Grand Prairie (815-469-3366) with any questions.
All FSD 157-C schools will be celebrating Veterans Day. Grand Prairie, Chelsea and Hickory Creek will host a Veterans Day assembly to show their appreciation to Veterans.
In the weeks leading up to Veterans Day, all Hickory Creek students will be raising money for Honor Flight Chicago through a donation competition as well as participating in mini lessons about the meaning of Veterans Day and what it means to sacrifice. We are excited to see how many veterans’ lives we can change with our donation to Honor Flight Chicago!
To support the above efforts, popsicle sales will take place in the months of October and November. Thank you for your generous donations during these sales and thank you in advance for the donations of items that will be coming in soon. Together we will make the day of many veterans as well as active service members who will not be able to be home with their families during the holidays.
From November 1 through November 10, Grand Prairie will be collecting and organizing gift packages for the men and women who are serving in the armed forces. Students will be able to write thank you cards to show our appreciation to men and women serving our country. We will also be collecting the items for holiday packages. We encourage you to participate and send in any of the following items with your child to school. You may also drop them off at the school’s front office.
If you know of anyone who is serving in the armed forces and would like a gift package to be sent to them, please e-mail his/her name and address to: Lori Stanevicius at Grand Prairie (lstanevicius@fsd157c.org).
These packages, which will be sent out in November, are our way of showing support to all those brave men and women.
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
10/27/23-Pajama Day/Game & Gum Day/Popsicle Day (If you would like to purchase a popsicle during lunch, place $1.00 directly inside lunchbox)
10/31/23-Fall parade/Fall Party/Early Dismissal
11/1/23-Support the Troops collection starts
11/2/23-Hot lunch (Aurelio's pizza)
11/3/23-Popsicle Day (If you would like to purchase a popsicle during lunch, place $1.00 directly inside lunchbox)/End of 1st quarter
11/9/23-Erin's Law lesson with social workers
11/10/23-Report Cards will go home/Support the Troops collection ends
Math Lessons
Module 1 Lesson 30-34
Upcoming lessons:
Monday-Lesson 35
Tuesday-No lesson
Wednesday-Lesson 36
Thursday-Lesson 37
Friday-Lesson 38
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:
10/27-Hunter
11/3-Luke G. (poster comes home 10/27)
11/10-Andrew (poster comes home 11/3)
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