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What are we learning?
Math
I can apply basic fact strategies to add and subtract within 20.
I can use a diagram, number line, number bond, and number path to assist with solving addition and subtraction problems.
I can solve addition and subtraction problems involving two whole numbers using models and number sentences.
I can generate and solve problem situations when given a number sentence involving addition and subtraction.
ELAR
I can spell words with digraph ch and th correctly such as much, check, which, chill, this, that, then, them, thin, with. (Spelling Test on Friday, October 31st).
I can describe main characters and the reasons for their actions.
I can make connections between a text and my own life, society, and other texts.
I can recognize characteristics of folktales.
I can identify and describe the central idea of a video.
I can practice building my stamina as I read.
I can create a plan for the steps of how to carve a pumpkin.
I can compose a procedural writing that tells how to carve a pumpkin.
Social Studies
I can explain state patriotic symbols.
Science
I can record observations of and describe basic life cycles of animals.
Reminders
OCT 2025 October Calendar.pdf
Book Fair Money and Gift Cards
Please let your child's teacher know via email if your child will have cash or gift cards to spend at the book fair this week. Teachers, unfortunately, will not know if you purchased your child a gift card to the book fair unless you contact your child's teacher to let her know. Thank you!
*Please visit the link below for more information about the book fair. ⬇️
https://literati.com/store/?school=o-c-taylor-elementary-school-colleyville-tx
Weekly Library Schedule
Students will check out a new book from the library weekly as long as they return their old books. Please help your child remember to put library books back in his/her backpack after reading them at home. This will help ensure that your child gets to check out a new book at the library every time!
Ms. Shiles - Monday*
Ms. Hilcher - Tuesday*
Mrs. Duncan - Wednesday*
Ms. Welch - Friday*
*No library this week due to the book fair.
New Sight Words
Students will be bringing home new 2nd 9 Weeks Sight Words this week. Please have your child cut them out and put them in a baggie. Students should be able to read, spell, and write their sight words, "in a snap."
HMH Into Reading myBook
Students have completed the first HMH Into Reading myBook. Your child can keep these books forever at home or recycle them, if you prefer. Your child does not need to finish any of the activities inside the books at home. Your child DOES NOT have to keep these books inside his/her backpack. These books are for your child to keep at home. Thank you!
Volunteers
We will need volunteers this year for field trips and other opportunities! In order to be a volunteer, you must have attended the Volunteer Orientation and completed the criminal background check. All volunteers are required to reapply EACH YEAR.
To complete the criminal background check, click here:
G1_M3_SL_Family Letter_KD.pdfCopy of NonsenseWordFluencyPractice-1.pdfNonsense Word Fluency
Nonsense Word Fluency
Nonsense word fluency measures a student’s ability to decode individual phonemes and then blend them together to read. They’re an indicator of a student’s progress in acquiring early alphabetic principle skills. By using nonsense words, we can find out whether a child knows the most common sound for letters (letter–sound correspondence), and whether a child can blend the sounds to read words he/she has never seen before.
Student Absences
Please email your homeroom teacher and copy Sierra Salter, sierra.salter@gcisd.net as well as Paola Cervantes, paola.cervantes@gcisd.net any time your Tiger will be absent.
Ride changes/Leaving Early
If you find your child must go home a different way than planned or is leaving early, please email your child's teacher, Ms. Paola, and Ms. Sierra by at least 2:00 pm.
iPad and Charger
Please be sure your child brings his/her 100% charged iPad AND charger to school every day.
Classroom Needs
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