Jersey Day, Nature Hunt & Scaredy Squirrel... OH MY!

Jersey Day

Living and Nonliving Nature Hunt with Buddies

• Phonics: We learned that two consonants that make 2 separate sounds are called blends. Examples are: fl, cr, bl, st, and many more! Here's a link to the blend video we watched if your student wants to watch it again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQgJnpE7IL8
• HFW: good, come, pull, be
• Math: In topic 2 were learning to count forward on a number line, doubles (2+2, 5+5), near doubles (if 2+2=4, then 2+3=5), and facts on a ten frame. 
• Writing: We wrote about our pets or if we could get a pet what it would be. The kids had to include what their pet eats, what they do with their pet, a name, and what it looks like.
• Science: We went on a nature hunt with our 3rd grade buddies to observe, draw, and label 3 living & 3 nonliving things outside.
• Reading: We focused on "What makes a pet special?" We read A Pig for Cliff, Flip, and  What Pets Need. We read Scaredy Squirrel and learned all about the author Melanie Watt. 
• Innovation Room: We even went to the Innovation Room and pretended we were Scaredy Squirrels. Our quest was to tape tubes to the wall in a zig-zag pattern so that the acorns would roll from the top tube, through the middle tubes, and land in a basket. This took TEAMWORK, IDEAS,  PERSISTENCE, TRIAL and ERROR, and many many TRIES to complete the task! Check it out below:

Important Dates:

• Oct. 11- Conferences
• Oct 12- No School: NEOEA Day
• Oct 20- Pumpkin Festival @ Redwood- more info coming home soon
• Oct 24- ALPL Field Trip 1:00pm
• Oct 26- End 1st Quarter
• Oct 29- No School: Staff Professional Development day
• Oct 31- Halloween Parade 9 AM, class party

Walk on Wednesday Theme Days: (Students Walk with class):

o   9:05AM Week 1 Oct. 3^rd – Cleveland Pride, AL Pride, etc.

o   2:30PM Week 2 Oct 10^th – Wacky Hats (or just a hat)

o   10:00AM - Week 3 Oct 17^th – Bright Colors (wear your brightest colors)

o   1:30PM Week 4 Oct 24^th – Invite a friend – we will be on our ALPL Field Trip, but that's okay :)

o   9:05AM Week 5 Oct 31^st – Halloween Parade

Paper Towel Tubes Needed!

Omega Man came to our school to teach us to be kind, be caring, be respectful, to work hard, not give up, and to be a hard worker. He motivated us to be Dream Makers, not dream breakers. 

• Our class is going to visit the Innovation Room to build a special activity, so we are in need of EMPTY paper towel tubes and toilet paper tubes. If you have any to donate, please send in the empty tubes by September 28th.
• This week's High Frequency words: down, out, up, very
• Reading- Big Question: What is it like where you live? We read Go, Pip!, I Live Here, and Six Kids, and City Mouse Country Mouse to help us learn and compare city life to country life. We discussed schools, playgrounds, apartments, traffic, stores, and farms. The kids crated their own flip books with pictures and labels of places we can find in our suburb, Avon Lake. We are learning fiction vs. nonfiction, realistic fiction, and fables.
• Writing- We wrote about Omega Man in our journals and wrote the topic sentence together. We are learning that every paragraph begins with a topic sentence to introduce the main idea of our writing. We continue to practice capitals, periods, neat handwriting, and the correct spelling of High Frequency words using the word wall.
• Phonics- bonus letters: l,f,s,z,t and mark with a *  Example: puff*, hill*, buzz*
• Math- We finished Topic 1: Solve Addition and Subtraction Problems to 10, and took the quiz. We will move onto Topic 2: Fluently Add and Subtract within 10.

• Conferences are Thursday October 11th 7:30 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. Our sign up for Redwood Parent-Teacher Conferences is online! Online Sign-up's start FRIDAY 9/21 at 9AM! Simply go to http://www.ptcfast.com/schools/Redwood_Elementary and you will be able to sign up for a time slot for one or all of your children that attend Redwood. The website will open for live sign-up at 9:00 A.M. on Friday, September 21st and will close, Wednesday October 10, 2018. If you have questions about the sign up process please do not hesitate to contact your child's teacher. If you do not have internet access, please send a note to your child’s teacher and a time will be scheduled for you. There is NO SCHOOL for students on Thursday October 11 and Friday October 12, 2018.
• Spirit week is 9/24-9/28. 
• 9/24 Mon.- Workout Gear 
• 9/25 Tues. -Jersey Day
• 9/26 Wed-picture day
• 9/27 Th- Throwback Thursday
• 9/28 Fri- Maroon and Gold
• Redwood students are welcome to walk in the homecoming parade with Redwood's float. Bring a bag of candy and meet at Blesser Park @ 10:00am.

• 9/14- Redwood Spirit Wear order forms due
• 9/26- Picture Day- Bring in picture forms or order online
• 9/24-9/28 Spirit Week, see picture above 
• 9/29- Homecoming Parade

This week in:

Reading: Our essential question was "What do you do at your school?" We read the stories Jack Can, Nat and Sam, and The Rules at School to compare other schools with ours. Vocabulary words: recognize, common, subjects, learn, object

Phonics: We focused on the sound of short a, as in apple, and practiced tapping out 3 letter words with short a. We used magnet boards to build the words, dry erase boards to write the words, and finished by working with the poem "Fat Cat."

High Frequency Words to Know: what, school, not, does

Math: We continue to explore part-part-whole models, comparing how many more & how many less, representing story problems with pictures, and working with math counters to add two parts of an equation. Next week we will finish Topic 1 and quiz.

Class Party Volunteers

  

  

We had an unexpected, short 2 day week but still worked hard! We reviewed the following High Frequency Words: little, like, see, has, look, me 
We practiced finding equations for story problems using the part-part-whole model with picnic plates and dry erase markers. We read a Scholastic News Magazine and watched a video about being polite and using manners in school. At the end of the day, our class was able to login to their Chromebooks and play ABCya's Sight Word Bingo!

Reminders:

• Here is the link for the Head room parent sign ups and class parties: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0948AFA822A5FE3-head1

• Wed. Sept 12- PTA meeting 7pm
  
• Picture Day: Wednesday Sept. 26- Order online or send in the paper form if you wish to order pictures!