Bats, pumpkins & spiders

Up Coming Events:

Tuesday, October 31st: Parade of Fiction--Please refer to the email from the school about details. The children can dress up as a book character. Children will need to ARRIVE TO SCHOOL IN THEIR COSTUME with their book! The parade will happen inside of the school and begins at 8:45am.  Please send in a change of clothes if you feel your child may not want to wear the costume all day. Please label clothing items and send them in a bag.

November 7th: Field Trip to the Children's Theater: Please see email and sign up for details

Hi all,

Tuesday's pumpkin carving was such fun! Thank you so much for coming in and enjoying a fun afternoon. Cynthia (Bailey's mom)  and the children made amazing pumpkin muffins! The recipe is going home today. I'm trying to share a link with you so you can see all the pictures.  Hopefully, by the end of the weekend I can figure that out!

Math centers:

 



We have been focused on our numbers! We have completed the HWTs portion of learning to write numbers 1-10. We are concentrating on not writing them backwards. The children have been making groups of numbers, for example eight groups of eight which focuses on 1:1 correspondence. We learned about circumference while making observations about our pumpkins. We are also still estimating, making patterns and learning to count by 2s. We are now rolling two dice and adding up those numbers.

Reading & Writing centers:






This week, we looked at the "at" family. We talked about beginning sounds and made "at" words as well as nonsense words that rhymed with at. We circled back to rhyming with a fun bat rhyming activity. The children put together a beginning sound with the small word at and made a book. They drew and labeled a bat.  We  reviewed all the sounds and letters that went with our Marvelous me friends. We did one more activity with Liam's name. They had to fit his name on a page and then we used glue and leaves to "decorate" his name.




Science:

We learned more about pumpkins and began our unit on bats. We shared our current knowledge about bats and talked about how helpful they can be. We read some great books, Stelluna, Bats and Night Song. We learned about echolocation and the children are in love with this song! Hopefully this link will work! The children made adorable torn paper bats that are hanging in the hallway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OYmHVuguWI


A few weeks ago the children made American flags as part of a school wide effort to support our Veterans. I thought it would be nice if we included a hand written note to go with those cards. If you would like to send one in by November 1st that would be wonderful. I personally, just had my first cousin return early this month from his first tour in Afghanistan. I am very relieved he is home safe and grateful for his service!

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Hazlett