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Week of November 8, 2021


Students have earned enough bingo pieces as a whole class to earn their prize! They chose to have a Pajamas and Stuffed Animal day on Friday the 12th! Please bring a stuffed animal that is no bigger than their backpack. 

As mentioned in Thorson's Thursday Folder, all 3 elementary schools will be celebrating veterans as they drive past in a procession on Thursday, November 11. They're due to drive past Thorson at 9:30 and we'll be outside wearing red, white & blue, cheering, maybe singing, waving flags or signs to show our appreciation for their service. If you have a veteran you would like to participate in the processional, they are welcome. 


This week in literacy, we will…


  • Recognize and use the phonograms -ap, -ay and -ai

  • Recognize that letters can be consonants or vowels

  • Read Tap, Tap. Tappity-Tap, by Elizabeth Sawyer, for shared reading.  We will infer feelings of characters and understand a simple theme. We will also read repeating phrases with fluency and intonation

  • Read a poem titled, The Squirrel 

  • Write about shared experiences for Community Writing

  • Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons


In writing this week, we will…

  • Share our opinions about different topics with others

  • Use convincing statements to support our ideas

  • Write to persuade others 

  • Review and edit our work 

  • Make comparisons in our writing to make our piece more convincing and interesting


In math this week, we will…

  •  Apply the commutative property of addition to add

  •  Use strategies to add with sums to 20

  •  Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members

  • Identify whether a number is odd or even

  • Practice our doubles facts

  • Solve addition and subtraction story problems with sums to 20 involving situations of adding to, putting together, taking away, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions

  • Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into parts in more than one way

  • Record decompositions of numbers less than or equal to 10 with drawings and equations


In Science this week, we will continue to learn about fast and slow land changes.  We will also learn more about Veterans.  Additionally, we will begin a new Social Studies unit on Neighborhoods.


Important Dates to Remember!


11/8- Virtual PTO meeting

11/9- Dining for Dollars- Even and Odds Pizza

11/11- Veterans’ Day Parade 9:30

11/12 Class PJ and Stuffie day (must be able to fit in backpack)

11/18- Parent-Teacher Conferences- Please sign up and indicate whether you prefer virtual or in-person conferences

11/22- Parent-Teacher Conferences- Please sign up and indicate whether you prefer virtual or in-person conferences

11/24-11/26- No School- Thanksgiving Break


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