• October 16 & 17: Chompy Shop sales before school

• October 17th: Costume Parade at 12:15 around the track

  2 Hour Early Release

  Trunk or Treat in the GTE Bus Loop

• October 24th: Walk A Thon 12:05-1:05

• October 29th & 30th: Fall Conferences

• October 30th-November 4th: Fall Break, No School

• November 5th: Back to school!

• November 11th: Veterans Day Assembly 

• November 12th: PTO Meeting @ 3:30 in the Art Room

• November 17th: 2 Hour Late Start

• November 26th-28th: No School, Happy Thanksgiving!

• December 1st: 2 Hour Late Start

• Deember 10th: PTO Meeting at 3:30 in the GTE Library

• December 18th and 19th: Chompy's Pop Up Shop in the foyer during arrival

• December 19th: 2 Hour Early Release Day

• December 22nd: Winter Break Begins, Happy Holidays!

• January 5th: School Resumes, 2 Hour Late Start

Please join our PTO! It is a GREAT way to get involved, meet people in our community and in your child's life!

You don't have to attend meetings to become a member, it is FREE!

Please practice these words at home. Some ideas are writing them on index cards and hanging them around the house to hunt for, writing them with sidewalk chalk, etc.

Sight words will be listed here!

We will work on concepts of print. Understanding how books work and that they tell a story in order to teach us something. We will follow print when reading and going from left to right pointing under each word. 

Here is a great FREE online resource to practice reading at home! 

https://portal.flyleafpublishing.com/learners-resources/

Read with your child EVERYDAY and talk about the books you read! This is so important for your child's reading and language development.

This week's vocabulary words:

chores, contribute, member, organize, accomplish

We will be telling stories through our pictures and adding labels. We will also work on writing sentences and showing students that sentences start with a capital, have spaces between words, we write a letter for each sound we hear, use good handwriting, spell the sight words correctly and end with the correction punctuation.

Letters, Sounds, and CVC Words

We will hit the ground running learning all 26 letters letters and sounds of the alphabet! As we learn more letters we will be working really hard to hear all the sounds in a word. We are listening for a beginning, middle and ending sound and making sure we write a letter for each sound we hear. 

Sight Words

Each week your child will be introduced to several sight words. Hang these words around the house to help your child see them constantly and remember them! There is a poster to help learn a word too!

Phonics Practice:

Here is a wonderful website to use to practice various phonics skills with your child:  https://phonicsandstuff.com/  

First quarter we love to start with our geometry unit! We will be comparing solid and flat shapes as well as identifying them.

We will also work on writing our number to 10 and counting to 25.

The Leader in Me program is an evidence-based, comprehensive educational leadership & school improvement model that empowers students with life-skills they need to be successful. We will learn the 7 habits...

Habit 1: Be Proactive

Habit 2: Begin With The End In Mind

Habit 3: Put First Things First

Habit 4: Think Win-Win

Habit 5: Seek First To Understand and Then To Be Understood

Habit 6: Synergize

Habit 7: Sharpen The Saw

Bonus Habit 8: Find Your Voice!