October 8th, 2018

SPREE Field Trip This Thursday 10/11  
The forecast is a high of 48 and cloudy.  Please dress in warm layers and sneakers or other appropriate shoes for walking outside.  
Remember to pack a disposable lunch and a water bottle too!
Halloween Party help needed
Our class Halloween celebration will be at 3:00-3:30. Please stay tuned for the parade start time. 
Please click on the link to help: 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C45A8A629A3FC1-brady1

Parent Teacher Conference Sign up
Parent teacher conferences will be held the week of October 15th. The common night for all teachers will be on Wednesday October 17 from 4:00-8:00pm. 

Please note: due to my course schedule, I will not be able to hold conferences that week outside of the times offered. If needed, please contact me so that we can make sure we find a time to meet! 

Please click on the Sign-Up Genius Link: 

https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/5080f4eabab29a4fd0-parent

This week in Superkids, we will:
Read words with /or/, /er/, /ear/, /ar/
Associate ed with /ed/, /d/, and /t/
Spell memory words
Recognized that ED represents past tense
Identify base words and endings
Encode words with and without spelling changes before adding /ing/ and /ed/
Understand meanings of comparative and superlative adjectives
Add /er/ and /est/ to compare things
Add /ed/, /er/, /es/, /est/, and /ing/ to words with final Y
Ask your child: If I add /ed/ onto the base word Skip, what is my new word? (skipped) What does ending sound /ed/ tell us? (past tense) What is an adjective? (describes a noun)


This week in math, we will:

Use a place-value model to represent a 2-digit number as tens and ones
Determine a quantity represented by a given number of tens and ones
Find combinations of 2-digit numbers, using only tens and ones
Recognize that different combinations of tens and ones for the same number are equivalent
Determine the difference between a number and a multiple of 10 up to 100
Use an equation to represent a two-digit number as the sum of multiples of ten and some numbers of ones


Ask your child: How many tens are in the number 47? How many ones? What happens when we are adding two-digit numbers and the ones-place value is greater than ten?


This week in writing, we will:
Understand the difference between nouns, verbs, and adjectives
Understand word order
Recognize that using detail makes us stronger writers
Begin a character study with Stellaluna
We will use our character findings to write about how she changes (character traits)
Ask your child: What is a noun? Verb? Adjective? Why do writers use those parts of speech? What is the story of Stellaluna? How does she change throughout the story?