Week of Oct. 15
· On October 31st, Old Union will have Storybook Character Parade. Children may come dressed as a character from a favorite book. Please make sure your child brings the book as well. No guns, swords or other scary stuff please… We will get to enjoy reading our books during readers’ workshop. Parents are invited to the parade. It will take place first thing in the morning outside by the playground. If you’d like to send a change of clothes for your child, that will be fine.
· Texas Generation Week! We are wearing college shirts to promote higher learning! Feel free to let your child join in!
· Student Council Used Sports Equipment Drive
Our Student Council will be collecting used sports equipment Monday-Friday to donate to “Play It Forward Southlake”. Play It Forward is sponsoring an equipment drive at Dragon Stadium from 5-10PM Friday the 19th. The equipment will be donated to the Dorothy Moore Youth Center in Dallas.
· Please make sure your child completes his/her written spelling homework and turns it in on Friday. (2 written assignments) We are adding a few high frequency spelling words each week.
In Language Arts this week, we will…
· Write words “we just know” using the word wall
· Add details to our writing
· Reveal our internal stories in our writing
· Write effective story endings
· Practice writing sentences using correct capitalization and punctuation
· Look closely at the characters of our books
· Learn about pronouns
· Sort words according to their spelling patterns
In Math, we will…
· Show numbers using tens and ones
· Write numbers from 0 to 99
· Write numbers in different ways
· Problem solve using SSM, SWA, and BSD plans
· Participate in our math stations! The children love playing games and doing activities that reinforce concepts that we are learning.
In Social Studies we will be learning about landforms and bodies of water.
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