Weekly Update

What's been going on?

Last week we spent a lot of time preparing for our field trip to Ganyard Hill Farms. We read lots of stories about pumpkins, where they come from, and things you can do with pumpkins after they leave the farm. On Friday, the children completed their Pumpkin Report. Students drew pictures of their pumpkins, where pumpkins grow, and things that are made from pumpkins. They also measured how tall their pumpkins were. Each child took home their pumpkin and report on Friday.

What's new?

Daily 5 Literacy:
Letterland: Fast tracking sounds:

a – Annie Apple	i – Impy Ink
b – Bouncy Ben	j – Jumping Jim
c – Clever Cat	k – Kicking King
d – Dippy Duck	l – Lucy Lamp Light
e – Eddy Elephant	m – Munching Mike
f – Firefighter Fred	n – Noisy Nick
g – Golden Girl	o – Oscar Orange
h – Harry Hat Man	p – Peter Puppy
q- Quarrelsome Queen	r- Red Robot
s- Sammy Snake	t- Talking Tess
u- Uppy Umbrella	v- Vicky Violet
w- Walter Walrus	x- Fix-it Max
y- Yellow Yo-yo Man	z- Zig Zag Zebra

Reading:

-organization and basic features of print: follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page; one-to-one correspondence (pointing to each word as you read)

-reading different types of texts (poems, storybooks)

-making connections between text and illustrations

-how to take care of books

-thinking about what readers read about

Word Work:

-recognizing and producing rhyming word review, identifying beginning sounds in words for each consonant, segmenting sounds, syllables, segmenting sentences

Sight Words (Target Words): I, see, like, my, the

Writer’s Workshop: Identifying the tools we use during Writer’s Workshop, choosing topics, using drawings to convey our stories, telling about our stories in the order in which they occurred, comparing Kindergarten writers to professional authors like Eric Carle and Kevin Henkes

Math: counting to 100 by 1’s and 10’s, using one-to-one correspondence when counting objects, answering “how many” questions when counting and solving word problems, writing numbers 1-20, sorting and comparing numbers using graphs *We will be assessing this week. Students will be participating in math centers to review concepts taught so far*

IB Words and Meanings:respect, empathy

IB Unit: Food for Thought

 

What’s coming up?

 

Spirit Week

Spirit Week at Joyner starts Monday, October 22nd through Friday, October 26th. Join in the FUN!! (No Halloween costumes please!!)

Patriotic Monday: Wear stars, strips and/or red, blue, and white
Tourist Tuesday: Wear your fanny pack, camera, binoculars, favorite souvenir t-shirt, etc
Wacky Tacky Wednesday: Mismatch and tacky
Favorite Team Thursday: Team jerseys, t-shirts
Joyner Spirit Friday: Wear blue & gold or Joyner t-shirt

 

JDRF Sneaker Week

JDRF Sneaker Week is from October 22 to November 2. Joyner will be selling paper sneakers for $1.00 each in the lobby from 8:00 to 8:30 AM. All proceeds will be donated to JDRF to help fund research to find a cure for diabetes. Fifteen thousand children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes each year. Please buy a sneaker and help us find a cure!

In addition, you and your family can participate in the Walk to Cure Diabetes on November 10 at Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion in Raleigh. Registration opens at 8:30 am and the Walk starts at 10:30am. To join the Joyner team, visit walk.jdrf.org and look for "Register". To make an online donation in support of the Joyner tem, go to walk.jdrf.org, look for "Donate to a Walker", and enter Ann Truax's name. Thank you!

 

Don't forget!

Friday, October 26^th- Joyner Jamboree

Tuesday, October 30 - Creepy Crawly Day (see the sign up sheet for ways to help!)

Wednesday, October 31 - No School - Teacher Workday