It’s time to share with you some of the wonderful excitement that will be taking place in our classroom as we move into October.

One of our major units during this month will be built around

Leaves + Trees = FUN!!!

We will discuss the falling leaves, autumn colors, days getting shorter and the temperature getting colder. We will discover more about the

many kinds of trees and leaves and identifying the parts of both the tree and the leaf.

Some activities will be: building a tree and acting out the various parts of a tree, leaf rubbing and sponge painting.

I hope that your child will share with you some of this unbe-LEAF-able work!

In Religion, the children will help recognize real heroes in the world today.

They will also be able to identify saints as people who help us to follow Jesus. They will hopefully inspire us to act in good and holy ways.

In the next chapter 4, we will explore celebrations in which we give praise and thanks, through prayers and music.

· Don’t forget to go over the Chapter Review with your child. It covers all the important concepts that will be on the test.

Don’t forget to join together with us for the

Living Rosary on

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In Math we moved on to Chapter 3, Subtraction facts. In this chapter the children will study subtraction properties and strategies to find differences from 20. Counting back by 1, 2, or 3, using a number line, using a addition table and using related addition facts are all strategies for finding the answers to subtraction facts.

Since addition and subtraction are inverse operations, there are “families of facts” for addition and subtraction.

Children will continue to use the 4-step process graphic organizer to solve problems.

What’s the Question? Understand (the facts) Plan the picture, Solve the number sentence.

ü Parents please be sure to review all addition and subtraction facts through l8 with your child each night. It will certainly help your child out in class.

Parents please note: Remember to keep all your math book pages that come home.

This will help you at the end of the Chapter to study for the test(s).

All pages are torn out as we go over the material each day, therefore,

you will not have any pages in the book to study from at the time of the test.

Connecting Phonics and Spelling together, children will learn and review the short vowel sounds of a, e, i, o, u.

Phonics skills include isolating and identifying short vowel sounds, segmenting and blending onsets and rimes,

and reading and writing short vowel words in context.

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Halloween is always a favorite holiday for children and we will be celebrating with some seasonable and fun activities

such as enjoying Halloween stories, fun art projects and the opportunity for some creative writings.

Happy Halloween to all!