November 4, 2009

Dear Parents,

This month we will be talking about the food pyramid inscience.  We’ll be learning how to makehealthy food choices.  To compliment thisscience unit, we are reading several versions of the book, Stone Soup.  We will be comparing the Stone Soup books(similarities and differences: characters, setting, soup ingredients, story endings, etc.).   On Thursday, November 19^th, ourclass will make stone soup.   Ask yourchild to tell you the story about stone soup. The children will choose a vegetable they’d like to add to thesoup.  They should bring this freshvegetable to class on Thursday.    We’llrefrigerate our soup until Friday, November 20th   We’ll have our Stone Soup feast on the 20^th.I will ask the children to come to school dressed as a Native American or aPilgrim.  We will be making very simplecostumes in school, which your child will take home.  Please encourage him or her to wear one ofthem on Friday, the 20^th.     Youmay be called by one of the room mothers to provide some other food items whichwe’ll need for our feast.  Thanks, inadvance, for helping us out!  

We have a very busy November!    We’ll be making stone soup on November 19^th.   We’ll eat our stone soup for lunch on November 20^th.  Parent/teacher conferences are November 23rd and 24^th.  Then we have Thanksgiving!  Next month will be December!  Time flies!

Our November spelling testswill be on Friday, November 20^th and Monday, November 30^th. Please help your child learn the November words.  Please review the September and October wordsalso.  Some children need lots ofpractice to get these words down pat. The children are expected to use these words correctly when they write.

September words:  the, of, and, to, a, was, is, he, for, as,his, has, I, like, we

October words:  you, they, one, said, from, or, have, were,her, put, there, what, she, been, by

November words:  out, so, are, two, about, into, only, other,new, some, who, want, say, do, first 

I am stapling the food pyramid to this newsletter.  Please check it out with your child.  There is a wonderful website which you maywant to visit.  There is a lot of good,nutritional information at this site and there are games for the children toplay.  The site is: MyPyramid.gov

Thanks once again for your help with everything!  I appreciate your involvement in your child’seducation! 

Please send the blue homework folder back to school on Tuesday,December 1st.  Please help your childread to complete the “Book It” calendar each month.  Fundations homework for each unit is due onthe dates specified in each of the unit letters to you.  If your child has high frequency word cards inhis/her reading bag, please practice these with your child.

Sincerely,

Connie Wilde