Week Ten: October 16th-20th

Happy Friday! It was so great to see many of you last night at the CSD Kickball Festival!  It's always fun seeing students outside of the classroom and school setting. :) We had a great week including our first field trip to the farm!

REMINDERS:

October 24th 1:00 PM Pumpkin Carving with Dad: This is a great opportunity to get dad's involved in our classroom!  If Dad cannot come, we would love for a grandfather, uncle, or mom to come! Please bring your own pumpkin for your child and carving tools (safely wrapped up).  You can send in the pumpkin Monday or bring it with you Tuesday.  This will be held in our classroom.

October 31st Parade of Fiction 8:45 AM: Students get to dress up as their favorite fictional book character!  Children will need to have the book (his/her character is from) with them to carry in the parade.  No scary costumes and no weapons of any kind (guns, swords, knives, bow and arrow, etc.)  They will parade through the hallways so you can see them! More details to come on the parade route.
November 7th 9:30 AM Children's Theatre Field Trip: We will be seeing the play "Snowy Day."  More information to come on chaperones.  We have limited spots for this field trip and I will know an exact number as we get closer.  If you would like to attend, mark it on your calendar just in case and I will send out a sign up in the next few weeks.
*Tentative* November 15th Raptor Center Field Trip 8:45 AM: We are still waiting to see if they can take us this day.  More info to come! 

Math

This week we focused on "counting on" and ten frames!  Counting on is a very important skill learned in kindergarten that is a foundational skill for addition and subtraction.  We are also doing more work with ten frames because this is also a foundational skill and tool that we use for addition and subtraction.  The students did so well with the ten frames yesterday! They got to practice the by painting with Q-tips and filling in the ten frames. 

Literacy

This week we studied Daxx's name and learned how to form each letter.  We learned how many letters, vowels, consonants, and syllables are in his name.  We have had lots of practice with our lowercase "a" which we make using "Magic C."  Ask your child to show you "Magic C" and how we use it to make the letter "a" and many other letters!  We did different activities each day to practice Daxx's name.  Students also rotated through our literacy stations practicing letters, sounds, multiple levels of sight words, and reading!  

Thematic

We began our unit on "Creepy Crawlies" this week!  We will study spiders, bats, snakes, and insects! We began with spiders.  We created a "KWL" chart as a class on spiders.  The "K" stands for what we know, the "W" stands for what we want to know, and the "L" stands for what we learned.  Every child has completed two centers for spiders so far.
1. Spaghetti spider web: students used cooked spaghetti, glue, and glitter to make their own spider web!
2. Spider cookies: students learned about the body parts of a spider and made their own spider cookie using glutino oreo cookies, pretzel sticks, and candy eye balls.  This one was a hit for sure!  We try to incorporate baking and food creations often! 

Science

Michael Colvard, Joshua's dad, is coming in today for our Sci-Fri!  He is doing a lesson on crickets since we are studying creepy crawlies.  Thank you Michael! 

Have a great weekend!
Love,
Mrs. James