Happy Fall Friday!

 Happy First Friday of Fall!

I hope you had a fabulous week!  We had another wonderful week!  The kids are working so hard, participating and staying focused!  

If your student is participating in a sport, I would love to try my best to come see them play.  Please send me their schedule and I will try my best to come out and support them!

On Sunday early evening, I would love to have a whole class read aloud.  I have a book that I feel fits perfectly with how every one is working together to support our students and would like to share it with your student and your family.  If you would like to join us, please login to our Zoom link (same Zoom link students use for class) at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday and we will share the book together.  This is completely optional and I understand if you are not able to come, I just wanted to invite everyone. 

Important Upcoming Events

• Family Read Aloud: Sunday, September 27 at 5:00 p.m.
• Tuesday, October 6: Slim Chickens Fundraiser (20% of sales come back to RBE with flyer)
• Wednesday, October 7: Andy's Frozen Custard (all locations)Fundraiser ($1 for each treat sold comes back to RBE with flyer)
• Thursday, October 8: Angelo's Pizza and Steakhouse Fundraiser (10% of sales come back to RBE with flyer)

Non-Chicken BBQ 

• Our Chicken BBQ will look a different this year, but our wonderful PTA has been working hard to still have some parts of the Chicken BBQ happen.  :)
• We will have a silent auction and more information will be coming soon about it.  I have a fun ice cream outing available in the Teacher Town section.
• We will still have a raffle for a $250 Hyvee Gift Card.  You can sell raffle tickets to your family and friends for $1 a chance.  Simply collect the money for the tickets you sell. Turn in the money you collected for the tickets (checks payable to RBE PTA, or Venmo the RBE -PTA account with your student’s name, teacher’s name and number of tickets purchased) and the completed raffle tickets to the white drop box outside the office by Wednesday, October 7^th.  The winner will be drawn and announced on Thursday, October 8^th.  Here is the form.

We have 3 Family Eat Out fundraisers planned the week of October 5.  They are listed under Important Upcoming Events.  

Next Week's Learning

Reading

• We will be reading a nonfiction book and discussing how we know it is non-fiction as opposed to fiction.
• We will also be working on visualizing and making a picture in our head while reading/listening to a book.
• We will learn about story elements and making connections in books. 

Writing

• We will start writing a narrative next week.  We will discuss the characteristics of narrative writing.
• We are still working on complete sentences with capital letters and punctuation.
• The first narrative will be about a time they experienced a storm.  

Fundations

• We will be starting unit 2 next week.  
• This unit introduces r-controlled vowels.  During this unit, we will focus on reading words with r-controlled vowels, but not yet writing them.  
• Our trick words for next week are full, pull, shall.  Last week's words were you, your, was, said, one, they.  You can still practice these words also.

Math

• We will be learning a new game called Fishing for 10 and being able to quickly identify combinations of 10.
• We will introduce the quarter.  Please practice skip counting by 25's with your student.  This can be tricky for them at first.
• We will also be learning how to determine if the number is even or odd.

Science

• We will be comparing habitats and ecosystems next week.  Students will get to go on PebbleGo and learn about 2 different ecosystems and then compare them. 

Have a fabulous weekend!