NEWS FROM Broadus Wood

Elementary

ROOM 10
echidester@k12albemarle.org Nov. 13th 17th
Mrs. Chidesters Classroom Newsletter
What We Did, Whats Coming Up:
Language Arts:
This week in our literacy block, we learned the letters X and Y. We read lots of
books about turkeys and Thanksgiving. We paused our writing piece about our
favorite place to go and to write about things that we are thankful for. Our word
wall continues to grow! We have our names and colors on the wall and we
added the words: I, like, want, and my. Our shared poem this week was about
a long legged turkey. At the end of the week we got to make some long
legged turkeys of our own!

Math:
In math workshop this week, we had centers involving turkeys! Students rotated to Count the Room
to count 10 frames, color by number with tissue paper, make a pattern shape, or roll a number cube
and stamp the matching dot number. We have to started to look at patterns in skip counting by
10s. We continue to work on being able to write numbers from 0 to 10 independently and will begin
to look at teen numbers soon.

Science:
In our content block, we discussed the 5 essential questions we must ask ourselves to determine if
something is living or nonliving: 1. Does it move by itself? 2. Does it breathe? 3. Does it need food and
water? 4. Does it change/grow? 5. Can it make more/reproduce? We even had some challenging
questions of whether a seed and an apple were living or nonliving! Next week we will compare and
contrast Thanksgiving in the past to the present.

Our Schedule Next Week:

Important Information:
Monday 11/20
P.E. * tennis shoes needed & Mystery Reader: November
Joyce Lawrence 11/22-11/24 No School/Fall Break

Tuesday 11/21 December

P.E. *tennis shoes needed & Art 12/19 Winter Party @10:00-11:00
12/20-1/2 No School/Winter Break
Wednesday 11/22 No School
Youre invited!
Thursday 11/23 No School Thanksgiving Day Our Winter Party is on the last day before
break from 10:00 to 11:00. There will be
Friday 11/24 No School snacks, games, and fun to be had with
your child!
If you would like to help out at a center,
please let me know.