November 8th Newsletter

                                                 

Week of November 8, 2021

As mentioned in Thorson's Thursday Folder, all 3 elementary schools will be celebrating veterans as they drive past in a procession on Thursday, November 11. They're due to drive past Thorson at 9:30 and we'll be outside wearing red, white & blue, cheering, maybe singing, waving flags or signs to show our appreciation for their service. If you have a veteran you would like to participate in the processional, they are welcome. 

This week in literacy, we will…

• Recognize and use the phonograms -ap, -ay and -ai

• Recognize that letters can be consonants or vowels

• Read Tap, Tap. Tappity-Tap, by Elizabeth Sawyer, for shared reading.  We will infer feelings of characters and understand a simple theme. We will also read repeating phrases with fluency and intonation

• Read a poem titled, The Squirrel 

• Write about shared experiences for Community Writing

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons

In writing this week, we will…

• Share our opinions about different topics with others

• Continue using convincing statements to support our ideas

• Write book reviews on our favorite stories

• Create summaries for our different reviews 

In math this week, we will…

•  Apply the commutative property of addition to add

•  Use strategies to add with sums to 20

•  Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members

• Identify whether a number is odd or even

• Practice our doubles facts

• Solve addition and subtraction story problems with sums to 20 involving situations of adding to, putting together, taking away, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions

• Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into parts in more than one way

• Record decompositions of numbers less than or equal to 10 with drawings and equations

In Science this week, we will continue to learn about fast and slow land changes.  We will also learn more about Veterans.  Additionally, we will begin a new Social Studies unit on Neighborhoods.

Important Dates to Remember!

11/8- Virtual PTO meeting

11/9- Dining for Dollars- Even and Odds Pizza

11/11- Veterans’ Day Parade 9:30

11/18- Parent-Teacher Conferences- Please sign up and indicate whether you prefer virtual or in-person conferences

11/22- Parent-Teacher Conferences- Please sign up and indicate whether you prefer virtual or in-person conferences

11/24-11/26- No School- Thanksgiving Break