Helpful Highlights
BOOK REPORT
Be sure to put those finishing touches on your pumpkins! Final Book Report due on Tuesday, October 20th!
NEW VIRTUAL GRANDPARENTS / GRANDFRIENDS DAY
When: Friday, October 23, for Lower and Middle School
What: A Special Video Recording - That afternoon, we will send out a heartwarming video recording from each division to their grandparents and grandfriends. Look for that to come via email and social media (Facebook and YouTube). If students are with their grandparents/friends that afternoon, they can watch it together. Or, if any grandparents live far off, they can still enjoy the message virtually.
Optional Early Dismissal: To allow for quality time with their grandparents and grandfriends, this day will be an optional half-day for LS + MS students. Grandparents and grandfriends are welcome to pick up students early from school for a special lunch or afternoon together off campus. (Students who stay will remain in their classrooms that afternoon and eat lunch per usual; Flipside will begin at the normal time that afternoon.) No hot lunch will be offered. Students who stay at school will need to pack a lunch.
Lower School Optional Early Dismissal | 11:15 a.m.
Middle School Optional Early Dismissal | 11:45 a.m.
PUMPKIN DAY
Normally, we have a big Pumpkin Party each year, invite parents, and celebrate together, as we view students’ Pumpkin Book Reports. Unfortunately, due to COVID, we have to do things differently this year; but, we still wanted to make it fun for students. This year, we will only be celebrating with the students during the normal school day. On October 30th, we have a fun-filled day planned! Students will be doing pumpkin-themed activities all day long, enjoying special treats, playing games, and viewing their peers' book reports. We will be sure to post a lot on SeeSaw for parents to see!
HOMECOMING WEEK: October 26 - 30
Monday - Movie Character Monday
Tuesday - Twin Day Tuesday
Wednesday - Wild West Wednesday
Thursday - Through the Years Thursday
Friday - Extreme Blue and White Day
Loving Learning
Right now, we are loving learning about:
Bible - Moses leaving Egypt and the story of the Burning Bush!
Phonics / Spelling
Spelling Focus: Sound of long i - spelled igh, y, i_e
Grammar / Creative Writing - We wrap up Chapter 4, with our study of Nouns. We will learn how to identify common and proper nouns, use proper capitalization (especially for names of God), and use commas in a series.
Reading - We continue our second unit of Foundations & Frameworks.
Comprehension Focus: Retelling
Pattern Statement: Oral restating requires organizing one’s thoughts.
Visual Tool: Flow Chart
SPECS Logs: Reader’s Response, Visual Tool, Reflection (Today, I learned…..)
Vocabulary: grooming, collide, soggy, tumbleweeds, canyon, souvenir, drooling, wick, whitecaps, muskrat
Math - We will be reviewing for the Unit 2 Test, which is on Tuesday, October 20th.
Science - We continue our study of life cycles. This week’s focus: The Frog Life Cycle.
Save the Date
October 20 - Pumpkin Book Report Due
October 26 - 30 - Homecoming Week
November 1 - Daylight Savings Time Ends (Clocks “Fall” back one hour)
November 6 - End of Trimester 1
November 23 - 27 - Thanksgiving Break!
