Announcements
Change of Clothes: Today, we are sending the spare clothes bag home. For upcoming cooler temperatures, please replace these with long sleeves and pants, in addition to socks and underwear. I recommend extra socks too! We ask that you return this bag on Monday- thank you! Take home folders did not go home today, since there was only one blue flier.
(Also if you are missing clothes, I have 2 pairs of boys black sweats that were size Small (5/6) and 1 pair of sonic boxer briefs underwear that were in unlabelled bags. Please let me know if you think they belong to your child.)
(For Reference: Repeated Info from my Welcome Back Email)
Halloween Celebration
We will celebrate Halloween at REMS on Tuesday, 10/31. Students should arrive at school at regular time, in costume, and ready for our parade which will begin at 9:30. It will be a short parade with crews parading around the RSS drive and REMS Kiss and Go sidewalk. Parents are welcome to attend to enjoy our parade and take photos. Here is the parade map.
Following the parade and party, students will need to change out of their costumes so having clothes underneath costumes (which is highly recommended) and helping your child to make sure they know how to change out of their costume independently would be helpful. I'd suggest a large shopping bag for your child to put all costume pieces in so they make it home safely. We’ll have a quick snack break and then enjoy some fun crafts planned by our awesome Crew Parent, Lindsey Smithson. Here is the sign-up if you would like to donate some crafts. Please email her if you would like to be a helper for our crafts: lindsey.lewis35@gmail.com
Student Self Care
Just a friendly reminder to please consider packing healthy snacks for your child. The goal with our snack times is to fuel the body so the brain can learn. With Halloween around the corner and other upcoming holidays, filled with holiday treats, more sweet treats always seem to find their way into lunchboxes and snack bags. Please help your child to make healthy choices by selecting snacks vs. treats. Please refrain from sending candy for snacks.
Lastly, please help your child get back into a healthy sleep routine if this was disrupted over the break. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends 9-12 hours of sleep for children ages 6-12.
Being prepared for changing weather
As we approach our colder weather seasons, please help your child to get into the habit of looking to see what the weather might be each day and dressing appropriately. If it is snowy, this would include snow gear (coats, snow pants, boots, hats, gloves). Please label all gear. Students who are not prepared will still go outside but will be limited in the activities they can engage in and might be chilly. It's very rare that staying inside for recess will be an option. On days when snow boots are needed, students are required to have shoes to change into indoors so our classroom carpet (which we sit on frequently) doesn't get wet from snow filled boots. Students without boots and shoes will have to remain in shoveled areas of the playground.
Some families find it easy to leave a set of snow gear at school. So that we can keep our cubby areas tidy, if you opt to do this, please make sure your child has a bag for all of their snow gear (reusable shopping bags work great). This will be sent home for washing as needed or just before a long break.
Things to remember for Monday (and everyday):
Volunteers Opportunities
Calendar
November 3rd: No School; Teacher Professional Development Day
*No Community Reading this week
November 13-17: Climbing Week for PE (2:45-3:35) Trained belayers sign up here to support our crew: Fall Climbing Sign Up. Also consider signing up for other crews too!
November 20-24th: Thanksgiving Break- No School
Crew Highlights:
What a wonderful week of learning! It was great to jump right back into it and see the kids buzzing with excitement of new learning.
In reading, we began Unit 3 titled "Rules at Home and School." We started with our first mentor text Why Do We Have Rules? and focusing on the reading comprehension strategy of determining text importance. Students learned that when we read, there are some details that are really important and some that are less important. We used the mentor text to think critically about the text.
In writing, we have been working on visualizing what we are writing about to help add more details in our pictures and words. On Monday, students were asked to think of five of their favorite things in their bedroom. They drew these and added labels. Then on Tuesday, we continued working on that piece of writing to add a caption that matches the picture. On Thursday, students shared that same piece of writing with a partner to brainstorm even MORE ideas to add in the picture or the words. It was great to see students being reflective in thinking of what to add when working on a piece for multiple days. We shared these on Seesaw.
In phonics, we have focused on I as our letter of the week. We added the sight word she. We did a lot of work with identifying the middle sound. Students would be given a list of words (kid, man, sit, big, nap, wig) and clap twice if the middle sound was /i/. This was tricky since our work up to now has been focused on the beginning sound. Here is our current phonics list.
In math, we finished our chapter on comparing numbers 1-5. Students practiced using the math words more, greater than, and less than- instead of just big and small. There were a variety of activities that emphasized one more, so that when kids are counting, they understand that there is one more each time they count up. Also, we have been putting a lot of effort into number formation and recognizing when errors are made with writing numbers backwards. Next week we move on to Three Dimensional Shapes and Weight.
In expedition, maps has been such a hit! Our crew has loved looking closely at maps and learning more about each other (and themselves!) with maping where everyone was born. We talked about map features such as a compass rose, dots for cities, stars for state captials, blue being water, green being forested areas, and brown being desert areas. On Wednesday, our D5/6 buddies (Ms. Summer's Crew) helped with map exploration, and they did a fantastic job at helping small groups notice different parts of a map (campground symbols on one map, the dotted lines to show the different boundaries on another, and so on). The room was literally buzzing with excitement! Thank you for sending in maps for us to look at this week!
The room was buzzing with excitement about MAPS!
Playing Five in a Row Bingo with Ms. Halle during Crew Skills.
Students were finding the pumpkin face that matched different feeling words.
Popsicle party on Wednesday!
Thank you again for all your generosity and efforts into making RAD such a successful event.
Did you hear that we raised $49,394 for our amazing school?!?! Hooray!
Every Wednesday, we have been drumming together. Up to now, I have been modeling a drum circle. Starting this week, brave volunteers can take turns leading the drum circle. We divide the circle in half with two leaders (to begin with). We only have time for a few drum leaders a week, but I will post pictures to your child's seesaw when they take a turn. :)
How fun to map the locations of where our crew was born!
Thank you for sending in maps. We will return these on Monday.
Also, does anyone have a globe? Can we borrow it on Monday? Thanks!
Here is some of our crew learning.
With our 4th grade buddies, we did a silly leaf person/pumpkin person activity.
After rolling the dice 6 times, they turned out delightful!
Here was a fun song/poem we learned.
Have your child show you our hand motions as you sing the song together.
Celebrating a great week back from Fall Break!
Stay warm over this chilly weekend. :)
~Ms. Lauren
