A Famous Third Grader and Pumpkins

One of my previous students made a guest appearance. She wrote a Halloween story for our Kindergarten friends!! We were really impressed with how long her story was and the wonderful illustrations she drew. Many friends couldn't wait to get to writing to try to write a story like their new 3rd grade friend. She also left the story with us so we take our time and look at /read it some more. She even said she would write us another story... how lucky are we?! She sure is a famous person in the eyes of our class.

 

On Halloween Mrs. Gray brought in some pumpkins and we had a chance to scoop them out and find seeds for roasting. A few of the seed collection bowls were dropped on the ground...but we still had enough so that everyone could try some :-)

Kindergarten October Community Meeting

During our Kindergarten Community Meeting our head Librarian Mrs. DePerte read two Halloween books to the students.

 

We then showed our friends how to do the Five Little Pumpkins poem.

 

 

After we taught the poem to our friends we all made a craft to help us remember the poem.

Hopefully your student came home and recited the poem for you!

Happy Birthday x 2

   WOW!!! October is a popular month for birthdays!! Happy Birthday to another 2 friends!

When We Grow Up

 A few weeks ago we learned all about community helpers and jobs. We also talked about what we want to be when we grow up. Here are some of the stations we did.

Counting the "Boo-Boos" on the Doctors.

Counting objects in the counting jar.

 

Matching numbers on the teachers to dots on the chalk board.

Here we are asking our friends what they want to be when they grow up and graphing the data.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to another friend!

Aspire Higher

This week we will be participating in the Aspire Higher Parade on Tuesday. On Friday we had a chance to talk a little about what we want to be when we grow up. In this upcoming week we will talk more about jobs and community helpers. Here are some pictures about what some of our friends aspire to be when they grow up.

 

 

 

Leaves are Falling

We have had a great week learning about leaves and fall. One of our fun stations this week in math was counting the leaves that are hanging from the ceiling.

We have also added word wall words over the tables so that students can practice recognizing word wall words when they are dismissed to their tables.

Fire Safety

Sorry for the delay on this post!

Two weeks ago we learned all about fire safety and had the Norway fire department visit the school.

We learned that we need to check our fire alarms at home to make sure the batteries are working.

We had a chance to see the clothes that firefighters wear for a forest fire and a building fire.

                

We were also able to see how a heat detecting camera works.

 

We also had a chance to sing our 5 Little Firefighters song for the firefighters.

 

We had a chance to meet Sparky and take a chance to climb on the fire truck.

Zero the Hero

Wednesday was the 30th day of school! We count how many days we have been in school and each day we get another bundle of 10 we celebrate Zero the Hero. Zero helps us learn to recognize the numbers that end in a zero and count by 10.

Falling into Routines

We are starting to get into the routine of our stations. The students are really starting to grow in their independence and are able to use the workboard with only a little help from me. Here is a peek at what we did this week.

This was some of our sharing  time in writing this week. We have been working on writing narrative stories and stretching our small moments into first, then, and next. We have been working on visualizing our story and trying to tell each thing we did in the moment instead of doing a morning to night story or just saying I ate supper.

 

We worked on counting how many words are in a sentence and sorting them. You can do this with your child at home too. Say a sentence to your child and have them count how many words are in the sentence you said (up to 10 words).
 

 

 

 

 

We also explored leaves

 

 and sorted them by their attributes.

 

 

We have really taken off with our reading workshop and have learned how to pick "just right" books.

 

This was our poem for the week. We will learn a poem for most of the color.