Happy Friday everyone!
We had a great week in Room 4. The kids have been loving learning and talking about pumpkins. We carved a pumpkin and hypothesized about how many days it would take to rot. We planted the seeds from our pumpkin. We compared and contrasted pumkin seeds and sunflower seeds. We learned how pumpkins grow.
We are ready for our field trip on Tuesday!
When we return, we will be writing about our trip and what we experienced at the pumpkin patch. We will estimate and count the number of seeds in a pumpkin, and we will conduct some experiments with some small pumkins. Who knew we could learn and do so much with pumpkins?!?
Important upcoming dates:
Tuesday, October 22: Pumpkin patch field trip. Please send the permission slip and $5.50 to school if you have not already done so. We can not take any more parent/grandparent chaperones at this time. If you are fingerprinted and want to chaperone a field trip, please look out for our next date (TBA).
Also, please note we will be eating a picnic lunch at the pumpkin patch. Children should bring their lunches. We will not have the option to buy lunch in the cafeteria.
For those parents/grandparents coming with us, please meet us in Room 4 at 9:00am. The bus will be leaving at 9:15. We will have centers that morning as usual.
Parent/grandparent chaperones for this trip:
Theresa Barajas
Amy Biggar
Sarah Kirchgessner
Jennifer Mikacich
Bryan Moreno
Sherry Petta
Tait and Cathy Smith
Isabel Tragsiel
Diane Wukmir
Thank you for volunteering!
Friday, October 25: Free dress day/Jog-a-Thon (schedule to follow with our running time). Please make sure your child wears shoes and clothes for running!
Monday, October 28-Friday, November 1: Kids Can Food Drive. More information to follow.
Thursday, October 31: Black and orange spirit day (no costumes)
Monday, November 11: Veterans' Day Holiday. No school
Friday, November 15-Friday, November 22: shortened days for parent/teacher conferences. Please note kindergarteners are dismissed on these days at 12:20 from the cafeteria. I walk them to lunch at 11:50, and you can pick them up there.
If you haven't signed up for a conference day and time, please do so. The schedule/sign-up sheet is posted in the back of Room 4.
Friday, November 22: Picture Day
Language Arts:
This week we will continue to read and write about pumpkins.
We will work on rhyming, counting words in sentences, and figuring out that when we switch the order of words we change the sentence's meaning.
Our letter focus will be Uu, Vv, Ww, and Xx
New sight words: big, have, small
Math:
This week we continue with numbers 6-10. We are practicing counting objects to, writing, ordering, and comparing numbers to 10.
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