Week of October 8, 2018

      This will be a busy and fun week.  The children will be preparing for our field trip to the fire station on Friday. Parents are invited to attend the field trip.  We will leave the school around 8:15 and return around 9:30.  The children will be visiting the fire station on Forest View and Murfreesboro Road.  Parents may follow the school bus to the fire station or meet us there.

This week is Spirit Week as we prepare for Homecoming.  The children may wear the following things:

• :Mon: "I Woke Up Like This"   (Glamour or P.J's)
• Tues:  Cartoon Character
• Wed,:  Crazy Socks
• Thurs: Hat Day
• Fri.:     Ezell Harding Pride (School Spirit Day)

• No tank tops or sleeveless shirts 
• No tight fitting clothing 
• No low cut shirts 
• No Short skirts or dresses 
• No Mask 
• No Face Paint 
• No Hair Coloring 
• Students Not Dressed Up, MUST BE IN UNIFORM 

       The children will be learning the following skills this week:

• Fire safety 
• Identifying, blending, and reading words with end blends. (nd, st, nk, nt,mp)
• Read several stories on fire prevention and identify main idea and details within story.
• Read word with inflectional ending -ing
• Review possessive nouns,
• Identify and read high frequency words in content:  eat, no, of, under, and who)
• Solve addition/subtraction word problems
• Learn about >great than ,<less than, and = equal to
• Continue to work on addition and subtraction using number line, touch points, and adding on
• Continue to read for comprehension and fluency  
• Continue to work on writing skills using good letter formation and spacing.
• Read and discuss about Christopher Columbus
• Read and discuss the weekly Bible story:  Isaac is Born
• Read and discuss weekly memory verse:  “And the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised”. Genesis 21:1

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS:

lend, send, fast, past, sink, wink, blink, plant, blank, test

Bonus words:  fireman - smoke

CLASS REMINDERS:

• Field trip to Fire Department                                      October 12th   8:15
• Field trip to Walden Farm                                           October 30th
• Fall Party                                                                     October 31st
• Homecoming Game vs Mt Juliet Christian@7:00      October 12th
• Family Chapel                                                             October 11th
• Report Cards for first quarter                                      October 12th