At the beginning of every month, you can expect to see different cultural, art and science materials coming home.  The materials reflect the particular theme and subject matters found in our curriculum.  For instance, in our Science area we are introducing the concept of “vertebrates” and “invertebrates”  along with mammals.  Jobs on the shelves reflect these subject matters and any of the work that does come home is an extension of our monthly themes.

One of the areas that gets a big monthly update is called Practical Life. Currently, this area reflects fall colors and has jobs focused on fall activities such as tweezing plastic spiders out of their web.   

The Practical Life area offers students a chance to develop practical skills that help them do things in life like “slicing a banana and serving sections to a friend” along with plenty of other tweezing and pouring jobs designed to build the coordination and strength in the fingers to correctly grasp a pencil and learn to write comfortably.

Ever wonder what the themes are for the month?  We invite you to look carefully at the calendar your children bring home at the start of the new month.  A small art project (tied to the current theme) is made by the children and attached to the calendar.

You will notice on these calendars that we include monthly themes and also highlight important dates for you to be aware of. These themes may give you an opportunity to speak with your child about them, or enrich their new found knowledge with your experience.  

Exploring people of the Earth.

The year long curriculum can be found in the parent information packet we distributed earlier in September at parent orientation.

Doing colored bead addition.

The scholastic book fair was a big success and we appreciate the generosity of our families who donated books to our classroom.  

We also appreciate the time, effort and donations made to the PTO to create a wonderful Fall Festival.  It is the support and involvement of our FMS parents that makes a huge difference in the overall student experience at FMS.  We appreciate your involvement!

REMINDERS

Monday, October 10th – Rain Forest Assembly at 10:00 am

Grace and courtesy being practiced with the “banana cutting job.”

Tuesday, October 11th – Picture Day

Parent/Teacher conferences start next Thursday (10/13) in the afternoon.  Students are dismissed at 11:15 am.  NO SCHOOL on Friday (10/14) for students as we are conducting parent/teacher conferences all day.

World History day is coming to the FMS campus on Thursday (10/27).  This is a day where the whole campus is transformed into a hands on experience of walking through time; starting with the early invertebrate period and culminating in the Renaissance era.  More details about this event will be coming home.  Please note now that dismissal is at 11:15 am on 10/27, and there is NO SCHOOL on Friday (10/28) in honor of Nevada Day.

Working with the blue step board matching letters to the yellow strips.

THANKS

A great big thanks to Emmett and Carsyn (and their families) for providing savory and healthy snacks, and beautiful flowers for the classroom.