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What do animals do in the fall?

Our new sight words this week are:

where
make
said
go
not

Our new poem this week is called "Flutter Flutter Little Bat" and goes to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"


We have been great word detectives and looking for sight words we know. Next week we will have been introduced to all of the sight words on the pre-primer sight word list. Please review these with me at home. We will be sending home a second list at the end of November. I should know all of the sight words on the first list by the end of November.

Today we talked about "What animals do in the fall?" We learned a new science word called Migration. Ask me to tell you what that means. Which animals migrate and why. We learned that lots of animals migrate for many different reasons such as: to go to a warmer place, have their babies, and look for food.

In art, we used "cool" colors today and learned about tinting by adding black and white to make different shades. This will be our backdrop for our Canada Geese art that we will do this week.

Housekeeping:

Grade 1 Assembly
Our Grade 1 Assembly is this Friday at 9:15am. We would love to see all of our families there!

Headphones
Please send a pair of labeled headphones with your child to keep at school for when we work on iPads for math and literacy.

Wednesday
A reminder that our library and home reading book exchange happens every Wednesday.


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