November 2nd-6th

Margot gets a kiss from her twin brother during indoor recess. ;)

We had an amazing time at the parade of fiction!

Landon leads us in a few stretches.

We were supposed to be cleaning up from lunch but stopped for a selfie!

Happy November!

A few reminders and announcements:

1. Please send in a warmer weather change of clothes.
2. Please send in a two pocket folder for our writer's workshop books.
3. Please send your child to school with a jacket or sweater as it is starting to get chilly.
4. No school November 11th, 25th, 26th or 27th.

Thematic Centers:

This week we are studying bats to continue on with our creepy crawlies unit. We learned that bats fly, they are nocturnal, they eat fruit and insects depending on what type of bat they are, they have two wings and two eyes and they use their sight and smell to find food. We rotated through 4 centers.

1. Put together the bat puzzle and have an adult read the facts on the puzzle pieces.
2. Complete the -at words book and illustrate.
3. Complete your torn paper bat (these are hanging here).
4. Look through the bat fact cards, illustrate a bat and write something you learned about bats.

Reading:

This week we have been looking at words that end in "-at" like bat, mat, fat, cat, hat etc. We learned that many words can have the same endings. We have stamped these words and made them out of play dough. We also worked on our brand new class ipad to practice writing our letters! We played write it quick with letters, sounds and words, made another class big book and worked on our handwriting books. We learned a new poem called 5 Little Bats and we glued that into our daybook. We also completed a bat labeling activity to tie into our writing unit this month.

Writing:

This months theme is to work on observing, labeling and listing like scientists in our writing!

Math:

This week we practiced writing numbers 11-30 on our whiteboards. We also learned a new game called "Monster Squeeze." We introduced the number line this week with numbers 0-30 as we played this game. Mrs. Schultz thinks of a number and tells the class what two numbers it is between. The class starts guessing numbers and the two "monsters" (which are classmates) move in closer and closer as everyone guesses until the number is squeezed and told! We also practiced writing our numbers by filling out the November calendar. We completed spooky counting which is a multi step process of counting objects, recognizing the number, cutting that number out and gluing it in the appropriate spot. We kept these here at school because everyone did such a great job and we wanted to hang them up!

Science:

If someone can sign up for sci fri this week we would love it!! :) Our flying ghost experiment was a real hit last week. Please send pictures if you repeat this awesome experiment at home!

Have a happy week and weekend,
Mrs. Schultz