Kriletown Adventures - Week 9

Welcome to week nine of Kriletown News. 

Here is a look into what we have been learning during week 9 of our Kriletown adventures. 

Important Dates

• Socktober - One week left to donate! Kriletown will be collecting men, women and children's socks durning the month of October for Alpha House. We have 402 pairs donated so far!!

• • • Thursday, October 31 - Half Day

    • Monday, November 3 IN PERSON conferences

    • Tuesday, November 4 - No School, Election Day

    • Thursday, November 6 ONLINE conferences

    • Tuesday, November 11 ONLINE conferences

    • Wednesday, November 26-Friday, November 28 - No School, Thanksgiving Break

Curriculum 

Word Work

This week we learned the letters FLSZ at the end of a word after a short vowel DOUBLE. We also worked with the consonant digraph ck shows up at the end of words with a short vowel. Our heart words this week were your, want, no, and goes. These are words that do not follow traditional spelling rules. Our FANCY vocabulary words were ’metamorphosis', ’canteen', ‘speedy' and ’stumble’. 

Reading

This week we read books about fall, being a good friend and telling the truth.

In reading workshop this week we read The Book Rescuer. This book is all about the life's work of Aaron Lansky the founder of the Yiddish Book Center. He with the help of friends and relatives saved over a million and a half Yiddish keeping the stories alive for generations to come. We learned ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Math

We worked with both addition and subtraction number stories this week. Missing addends within ten was introduced. Your students should have sums within 10 solid at this point in first grade. They should be able to explain what a turn around fact (6+4 and 4+6) and doubles fact (5+5) is and give you examples of both.

Writer’s Workshop

Each student started a new book this week. In our new story our main character will learn something from a book. 

Social/Emotional Learning - Life Skills

This week we discussed what it means to be honest. We talked about how it is always best to tell the truth as lies have a way of growing out of control.

We continue to have daily conversation on respect. What does respect look like and feel like. How do we show respect to each other and the adults in our lives.

Socktober Update

Kriletown is participating in the national Socktober campaign. Socks are the least donated items to homeless shelters. The children and I discussed this is a way for us to be generous and make a difference in our community. Please consider donating if you are able. We have collected 402 pairs toward our 510 goal!! Thank you to all who have donated.

Science/Social Studies

We discussed the difference between wants and needs this week. We learned it is only after your wants are paid for and a few dollars are saved for emergencies we could treat ourselves to a want. We also discussed if it is ever ok to break a rule. We concluded that while we are expected to come to  school each day in the case of being ill, special family trips and dentist or doctors appointments it is ok to miss a few days in Kriletown.

Parent Corner

Each week I will share ideas of ways you can aid in your child's education. Soft skills modeled at home have the most impact on life long learning. 

This week your children and I talked about honesty. Children are little, they are not stupid. Kids can handle honesty at their developmental level. Have the hard conversations as they come up. The kids will cringe. You will stumble. But silence does not protect them. Honesty does.

School Stuff:

BOOK ORDERS 

In this weeks Friday Folder you will find a Scholastic book order.  Please place any orders online at https://clubs.scholastic.com/cart by Monday, Nov 3th. Our class code is LC2KC

SNACK DONATIONS

Our snack box is running low. Please donate if you can. 

Conferences

If you have not signed up for a fall conference please do so immediately. A separate email was sent with the link.

From past newsletters....

Class books

These books will are making their way to each of your homes. When a large manila envelope comes home in your littles backpack please read through the book together and return the next school day. Your book reviews are the highlight of our day. Thank you so much for taking the time to acknowledge the author's hard work!

Computers

 Please be sure to send the computer FULLY charged each day. We will be using them daily. Please also send the charger. I am not supplied a classroom charger. Please do not let your littles change the settings on their computers. This is against the user agreement and poses a big problem when using them in class. Changes and creation of personal backgrounds interfere with programs run at school. 

Attendance Line

When your student is absent please use the following email to report the absence log_attendance@aaps.k12.mi.us

Instagram

If you would like to see adventures from our days together you can request to follow @Kriletown. 

Donations

To donate much needed items you can find the Kriletown wishlist here. 

Thank you for sharing your little learner with me this week.