Pumpkins

Tuesday October 24th --Pumpkin carving with Dad @ 1:00pm

Tuesday October 31st-- Parade of fiction @8:45 

Happy Friday! We have had a busy week! It's hard to believe that we had our first skit and then transitioned into a field trip, a new unit of study and a Fall Festival Kickball tournament!! WOW! It was wonderful sitting down with each of you and sharing about your sweet child. Thank you so much for your support. This school is a community and I have felt your appreciation and dedication as we have interacted over the last two months. We are off to a great start! I look forward to seeing the dads on 




Tuesday at 1:00 as we attempt to carve 21 pumpkins!! Go big or go home right? LOL!!! Please see the sign up for details. Each child needs to bring in a pumpkin and these can be brought in starting Monday. 

Science:

This week, we started our creepy crawly unit with the study of spiders. The children have learned quite a bit in our short week. We have compared spiders to insects. As well as learning facts like spiders can spit and zipline but they can not chew or fly. We will continue to learn more next week. We have also talked about pumpkins, how they grow and their life cycle. We will also add to this next week as Tuesday will be "all about pumpkins."


Literacy:

Liam was our Marvelous Me this week. He is the first student to have a small word in his name so we have also learned the word "am" this week. We tried a new activity where the students used special push pins to stick holes in the letters of Liam's name. This was a supervised fine motor activity and the children did a great job! They created a fun book called Spiders can.....Spiders can not....They then drew pictures and tried to write the words of what they could and could not do. They made cvc words, matched rhyming pictures and upper and lower case letters as well during centers. We made salt decorated pumpkins and created a yarn spider web. 

 

Math:

We continued with patterns and grouping sets of eight this week. We learned that spiders start their web with a triangular shape then move out in a circular shape. The children recreated this with Geo-boards and rubber bands. We used  ten frames to make the numbers 8 and 18, we practiced writing the numbers in our handwriting book and counting up to 18. They estimated and worked on positional words. As a representation of learning eight the students enjoyed making an Oreo cookie spider with eight legs and eight eyes. 

  





Field Trip:

 


A long drive but the children had a great time! They learned about corn and how it's in a lot of strange products, took a tractor ride, went down a cool slide and played in a Fooze ball pit. Some of us braved the big corn maze and the children even saw a phone that had a cord and a rotary dial! They sat in a train car that was over 150 years old, fed sheep and picked a pumpkin and some even had their first bus ride!

Thank you for sending in your coins for our fundraiser to build an athletic complex! Keep sending them in!

Have a great weekend!!

Mrs. Hazlett