News for the Week of October 29th

Wow!  What a fun-filled week we had this past week!  We started off with the 50th day of school and dressed up in 1950s attire.  Here the Monkeys are playing the math game, "Roll a Record."

We also had pumpkin math on Halloween, which was a blast!  Thank you SO much to all of the parents who donated items and thank you to all of the parents that donated their time!  We could not do it without you!

In math this week, we worked on looking at different set of objects with different amounts.  We then compared the sets and determined which had more or fewer.  The students counted, compared and stated which groups had more or fewer.  We also began to discuss "how many more" one set had compared to another set.  We will continue to look at "how many more" next week in math.

In language arts, we read the poem, Five Little Pumpkins, looked for rhyming words in our poem and then we illustrated the poem.  We worked on a fun craft on the 50th day of school and wrote about what we have learned to do in the first 50 days of kindergarten (or what we are better at now).  We hung these up in the hallway, so be sure to come and see them!  We read Room on the Broom, by Julia Donaldson, and discussed the characters, their actions and the reasons for their actions.  We also sequenced the events that happened in the story.  The Monkeys really enjoyed reading Creepy Carrots, by Aaron Reynolds.  We discussed the character Jasper, his actions and the reasons for his actions.  We made our own creepy carrots and wrote about the character's actions.  These are hanging in our hallway, so come and see them, too!  Next week, we will begin to learn about informational/expository text.  We will read nonfiction text about turkeys.  In social studies, we will learn about Veterans Day, its meaning and how we celebrate the holiday.  We will also begin to study culture and will learn about how families celebrate Thanksgiving.  During our word study, we focused on more work with syllables and sorted pictures based on their syllables.  We also worked more on identifying beginning sounds of words. We continued our work in our handwriting book by forming the letters u, i and a few words.

In science, we finished our unit on magnets and took an assessment.  We then worked on a couple of activities dealing with locations/positions.  For instance, the students placed pictures of bugs "above" a jar, "below" a jar, "inside" the jar, "beside" the jar and "on" the lid of the jar.  We continue this work next week and we will begin to learn about patterns of movement.

The Monkeys enjoyed learning about our superstar student, Mozelle!  We were able to learn all about her life and interests.

We look forward to learning all about our next superstar student, Ethan!

Reminders

If you have not yet signed and returned the report card envelope, please do so and send it to school with your child.  You can keep the white report card inside of the envelope.  We only need the signed envelopes back.

Please send your child's decorated feather with them to school on Monday, November 5th.  I will add these feathers to our big turkey in the hallway.  It is so much fun for everyone at school to see the wonderful variety of feathers created by our students and their families.

Please be sure to check out the "Dates to Remember" below. 

Upcoming Dates to Remember: 

Nov. 6        TAG Parent Referral Meeting, 6 p.m.~Library
Nov. 9        Veterans Day Program, 8 a.m.
Nov. 12-16  Book Fair
Nov. 13       PTA Meeting, 5:45 p.m.
Nov. 14       Thanksgiving Lunch, 11 a.m. (for our class)
Nov. 16       Kindergarten Music Performance, 8 a.m.
Nov. 16       Kona Ice, after school
Nov. 19-23  Thanksgiving Break, NO SCHOOL

Superstars & Birthdays:

Morris Superstar:

Ethan!

Morris November Birthdays:

None

Happy Birthday Siddhant!