November Newsletter

• Please label everything! Jackets, water bottles, lunch boxes
• Make sure your child has a change of clothes in their backpack for accidents or messes.
• Please check your child's daily folder every day, sign each day, and empty every night.
• Make sure your child brings a spill-proof water bottle every day!

Nov. 2 - No School!

Nov. 3 - No School!

Nov. 11 - Veterans Day Program

Nov. 12 - Spirit Night

Nov. 20 - PTO School Store

Nov. 23-27 - Thanksgiving Break!

Plants: How They Grow

Students are exploring plants and how they grow! Throughout Unit 4, we are learning to:

• Differentiate between living and nonliving things

• Use pictures to monitor comprehension and ask questions while reading to deepen understanding

• Set a purpose for reading and identify the basic needs and parts of a plant

• Explain and describe the life cycle of a plant

Foundational Skills

We are connecting sounds to printed letters and building early reading confidence! In Unit 4, students will focus on:

• Blending individual sounds to read simple words and practicing chaining exercises
• Connecting letter symbols to 8 key English sounds: /n/, /h/, /s/, /f/, /v/, /z/, /p/, and /e/
• Practicing writing new sound-letter correspondences and proper letter formation

Topic 4: Understand Addition

Students are diving into basic addition concepts! Throughout Topic 4, we are learning to:

• Represent addition as adding to or joining parts together to make a whole
• Use objects, finger counts, drawings, and equations (+ and =) to show addition within 10
• Solve addition word problems and explain how two numbers come together to form a sum
• Decompose numbers up to 10 into pairs in more than one way

Light Energy

Later this month, students will begin exploring light! They will learn to:

• Understand that objects can only be seen when a light source is present

• Compare how different amounts of light affect how objects look

• Discover how light travels through some materials and is blocked by others to form shadows

Day/Night Patterns

Students are observing patterns in the sky! We are learning to:

• Observe, describe, and recognize patterns in the natural world and objects in the sky, including day and night

Geography & Map Skills

• Use positional words like over, under, near, far, left, and right to describe where things are
• Locate key areas on our school campus and describe their relative positions
• Identify physical features of the Earth, including landforms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather patterns
• Learn about important historical figures (such as Stephen F. Austin, George Washington, Christopher Columbus, and José Antonio Navarro) and how their contributions helped shape our state and nation

Culture & Customs

Students are exploring family life and traditions! We are learning to:

• Describe and explain the importance of family traditions

• Compare different traditions among families

• Read and Retell: Read to your child each night and ask them to retell what happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

• Practice Letter Sounds: Practice target sounds (/n/, /h/, /s/, /f/, /v/, /z/, /p/, and /e/) and practice blending them into simple CVC words (e.g., net, hat, sun, fin, van, zip, pen).

• Practice Writing Names: Practice writing first names with a capital first letter and the rest lowercase.

• Practice Sight Words: Review daily sight words and practice reading simple sentences together (e.g., "I see the...").

• Number Recognition & Writing: Practice recognizing numbers 0 to 20 and writing them correctly.

• Counting Practice: Practice counting sets of objects up to 20 with accuracy, and practice counting aloud to 100.

• Addition Practice: Use household items (like toys or snacks) to practice joining two groups together to find the total.