A Peek At Our Week!

 I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and was able to enjoy the AMAZING weather! It was another busy week in Room 115. Please enjoy a few of the highlights below!

Important Dates:

November 11th:

Veterans Day

No School

November 23rd:

Early Release Day

12:25pm Dismissal

November 24th and 25th:

Thanksgiving Break

No School

Announcements:

Parent/Teacher Conferences

Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me over the past two weeks for Parent/Teacher Conferences. I enjoyed getting to speak with so many families about the transition to K, and all of the wonderful things your children have accomplished during our first few months together! Although formal confereces are not available again until the spring, please do not hesitate to reach out to me with any questions or concerns you have about your child's progress. Thank you!

Quiet Time Towels

Your child's quiet time towel was sent home on Friday for washing. Please return your child's clean towel to school tomorrow for Quiet Time. Thank you!

Curriculum Update:

Pumpkin Fun!

Monday was a spectacular time for science and math as we participated in some pumpkin fun! We began our exploration by learning about the parts of a pumpkin and the pumpkin life cycle. All of this learning culminated in an exciting activity that involved opening and exploring a real pumpkin!

After opening an orange pumpkin we decided to open a small white gourd/pumpkin to observe the similarities and differences. The biggest differences were that the small pumpkin's seeds were MUCH smaller and the pumpkin itself was a lot smellier! 😂

Seed counting was another exciting (and gooey!) part of our pumpkin exploration. We were shocked to learn that our pumpkin had 498 seeds! That's A LOT of seeds!

Fundations

Last week in Fundations the children learned about the letters e and r. We also practiced reading the sight words "if" and "on". Our color of the week was black!

The students above can be seen completing a sight word practice paper using spacemen! These spacemen are tools which help us to make sure that we are leaving plenty of space between our words when we write.

Math

Last week in math we continued to explore the numbers 0-10 using five and ten frames. The students were also introduced to the terms "greater than" and "less than" and played a fun new game to help them compare numbers using these terms. 

We also made a new learning tool in math called a number rack! Our number racks consist of a pipecleaner with five red and five white beads. We used these beads to show different ways to make numbers 5-10.

Our number rack makers were busy at work!

Reader's Workshop

Last week in Reader's Workshop we continued our We Are Readers unit and learned that good readers reread familiar books to learn new information and notice new things in the pictures. The students below can be seen teaching their partner about a familiar nonfiction book that they had reread multiple times and felt like an expert on!

Writer's Workshop

We continued to draw our show and tell items last week and worked hard to include more detail in our pictures including where our show and tell item would be found (i.e. adding a setting). At the end of the week we transitiond from writing about special objects and to writing about special places. The week ahead will be an exciting one as the children will begin to write their first multi page book about a special place!

School Safety

Our emphasis on school safety continued last week as the class learned about being safe coming to and from school, especially on a bus. We learned about the difference exit points on the bus as well as some tips and reminders about appropriate/safe behavior when riding. Although many students do not ride the bus everyday, this information was important for all students to learn as we will all ride the school bus at some point this year when we take a class field trip.

Thanks so much for taking a peek at our week! Please check back soon to watch us learn, grow, and play in the wonderful world that is K!