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October 24-28th

KM’s Week in Review:

Monday:
Today we read the book Pumpkin, Pumpkin and sequenced the story.  The kids did a wonderful job with this.  In math we worked on number order and continue to work on rote counting by 1s.  We are excited to do our “pumpkin science” and will begin that tomorrow. 

Tuesday:

Today we worked on estimating in math and see how it can come in handy for us.  We also worked on sorting skills in math and discussed different ways you can sort.  We began the pumpkin science activities and are having fun completing them!  Writing the capital letter R can be difficult, but if we take our time, we can do it well. 

Wednesday:

We discussed the similarities and differences between apples and pumpkins.  We are amazed at how many similarities and differences between the two!  Another day of pumpkin science and working on our estimations was fun as well.

Thursday:

Today we read Peter Rabbit and wrote a letter to Benjamin Bunny and created a list of the foods in the story.  There sure were a lot of vegetables!  We tied in a discussion on good nutrition.  We finished our pumpkin science! The biggest pumpkin we had was 12 pounds and the smallest was one pound.  Thank you to all of the students who brought in a pumpkin for everyone to use.  J

Friday:

Busy, Busy, Busy!!  We had a great time reading another nonfiction book about pumpkins and a fiction book about pumpkin seeds.  We learned more fun pumpkin facts.  We also had fun in PE playing an “emergency” game and rolled around a lot on the scooters.  We were tuckered out!

All About Me:

Samuel Jenkins

Reminders:

Halloween Parade begins at 1:50 on Monday, October 31^st.

Please send in a double healthy snack on Monday.  One snack will be eaten during the morning snack time and the other snack will be eaten during our Fall Party.

Please return any LMC books that may be overdue. 

October 17-21

KM’s Week in Review:

Monday:
Today we read a nonfiction book on bats and learned a lot of interesting facts!  Bats are not harmful to people; they help our environment.  J  We also made bats to hang from our ceiling.  It looks creepy!

Tuesday:

Today we read one of Mrs. Magnussen’s favorite books, Stellaluna.  We also were able to take a “quiz” on the computer to test our knowledge on bats.  We did really well.  We played the “number game” in math and we had fun with our partners.

Wednesday:

We are becoming bat experts!!  Another nonfiction book, from National Geographic, filled us with more specific information about bats.  We also read a counting book with bats and made a class book for the parents to see at conferences. 

Thursday:

We finished all of our Jolly Phonics sounds today!!  Our last sound book is coming home tonight.  We love to stretch out words we are reading.  We use our “rubber band or sticky bubble gum."  Our five senses are very important to us and it was cool writing about the things we like to see, hear, taste, smell and touch in the fall. 

Friday:

All of us were able to paint a red, magic pebble!  We think it is so much fun to paint and to add glitter.  We also were able to paint in art today and create a scene of a pumpkin patch. 

All About Me:

Kate Wohlfeil

Reminders:
Parent/Teacher conferences are quickly approaching.  Please watch for a reminder in your child’s folder.  Check the day and time and please send the slip back to let me know if the day and time still work for you.  Thank you!

October 10-14th

Weekly Review

Monday:
Hopefully everyone was able to go outside and enjoy the spectacular fall weather today!!  J

Tuesday:

We learned the popcorn word for this week is my.  We are also focusing on the letter Mm, while working on rhyming patterns.  The class learned a lot of information on Christopher Columbus and we were able to make a craft with the three ships he used to sail the ocean. 

Wednesday:

Boy, were we busy this morning getting a lot of great learning activities in this morning before our noon dismissal!  We are doing a great job in Daily 5 with Reading to Self and Writing.  We read a very funny book today titled Rhyming Dust Bunnies.  We practiced rhyming words after reading. 

Thursday:

Today we had our first Math Centers.  We were able to rotate classrooms and math centers to experience several math activities.  We were sorting, patterning, counting and creating shapes.  We wrote the letter Qq and found out when we see the letter Q, U always follows it!  J

Friday:

Silly Sally is a funny, funny story with great rhyming patterns!  We also worked in our journal today and we are getting better at stretching our words out.  In art we found out we will be painting next Friday and the students are really excited!  We also enjoyed learning about Corina.  J

All About Me:

Adam Hasan

Reminders:

Picture day is Thursday, October 20^th.  Please remember to send in your picture form with your child on Thursday the 20^th or before.  Thank you!

October 3-7, 2011

KM’s Week in Review:

Monday:   We began introducing our popcorn words today!  This week’s popcorn word is a.  We are reading many books this week and making text to text connections between the books.  Ask your child what connections the books Goldilocks and the Three Little Bears and The Three Little Pigs have in common.  We also discussed shapes we see in our world and made a shape collage in math.  Thanks for all of the magazine donations!  They will come in handy throughout the year.  J

Tuesday:  We loved reading and making connections between the two books The Enormous Watermelon and The Enormous Carrot!   Some of the kids said they would want an enormous watermelon and a few of the students said they would like an enormous carrot.  In art we are creating pumpkin patches and we will be painting next week.  The students are excited about painting and using their art smocks!! 

Wednesday:
We compared two new stories today~The Umbrella and One-Dog Canoe.  One Dog Canoe was a funny story!  We also learned the Jolly Phonics song for the letter Yy.  We learned more about our five senses while we took a trip with Ms. Frizzle and the Magic School Bus!

Thursday:
Today we made a class book Kindergartners, Kindergarteners, What Do You See?  It was fun to create our own book and make connections between our classroom book and Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?  Along with the book Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?   Thank you to Mrs. Wohlfeil who visited our room to kick off our monthly Kin-Connect activities.  The kids had so much fun creating their book worms!  Thanks, Mrs. Wohlfeil!!

Friday:

The weather has been so beautiful this week, we have taken advantage of it and gone outside for morning recess each day!  The students have also completed another “trip around the world” so they had a celebration today.  They were able to have extra social center time.  They loved it!  We compared the two books If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If You Give a Pig a Pancake.  There are so many connections we can make!  In math we learned about spatial vocabulary.  For example, under, over, beneath, between, inside, around etc. 

All About Me:

Corina Xiong

Reminders:

Please have your child bring their art smocks next week as they will be painting in art. 
No School on Monday, Oct. 10th
No School in the afternoon on Wed. Oct. 12th.  Dismissal is at 12:15