We had a great week and got to do some fun projects! We made jack o’ lanterns and handprint bats!

Upcoming Events

10/3 – 10/6 Popcorn Sale

10/7 Picture Day

10/7 Outdoor Movie Night

10/11 Apple Orchard Field Trip

10/11 Bingo for Books

10/14 Half Day – dismissal 11:45am

10/20 Scholastic Reading Club orders due

10/17-10/28 Savory Foods Sale

10/28 Costume Parade/Class Party (more details to come)

Agenda for the Week

Letters: This week we focused on the letters Cc and Xx. We talked about the sounds they make, brainstormed things that begin with each letter, and spent time practicing the proper formation of each letter. These letters will show up on next week’s homework for a handwriting review.

Reading/Writing: This week we practiced components of our Daily 5 curriculum. The children are learning how to do the rotation for “Read to Self.” We also began practicing “word work.”  The children are doing great at adopting all the procedures for each rotation of our Daily 5 reading curriculum.

Math: We continue to work on representing quantities with dots inside a ten frame. We learned how to properly form the number 7. We reviewed our procedures for math workshop and our number talks.

We continued learning about shapes.  We made jack o’ lanterns using different shapes to create the face. When the children were done building their face, they had to count how many of each shape they used. The children loved this project. Here is a picture of the completed jack o’ lanterns:

Social Studies: We continue to read books about being a good friend and following the rules. The children are really starting to get a handle on our routines and procedures.

Science: We talked about apples this week and met with the other kindergarten classes to have a “Fun Friday” activity. We all got together and made apple sauce with the apples that were sent to school. We also used some of the apples to paint pictures. The children also got to do some investigating with pumpkins. We learned if they sink of float, we measured how tall and round our pumpkin was, and we played a game called “roll-a-pumpkin.” I will post pictures of our Fun Friday soon!

Housekeeping Items:

Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before.

When sending money to school, please be sure to put it in an envelope or baggie with your child’s name on the front.

Dear Families –

Due to the flash flooding, we had to cancel the field trip to the orchard. The transportation department allowed us to get another bus in order to go to the orchard another day. We were able to reschedule our  trip to the orchard for October 11^th. We are sorry for any inconvenience, but unfortunately Mother Nature decided to rain on our day! Thank you for your patience while we worked with the orchard and the transportation department to arrange another day for the children to enjoy the orchard.

Due to the weather, we are cancelling the field trip. We plan to try again later today to see if there is any possible way to reschedule the trip to the orchard for another day. If we cannot reschedule, we will refund everyone’s money. Sorry for any inconvenience.

DON’T FORGET!

FIELD TRIP TOMORROW

Please send a completely disposable sack lunch and drink in a brown bag with your child’s name on it to school tomorrow. All items will be thrown away after lunch.

Please send some sort of bag for your child to carry their pumpkin and apple in. The children will collect these during the morning and it will be much easier for the children to carry them if they have a bag to put them in. I am going to raid my pantry and bring as many grocery bags as I can. The cloth reusable bags would work well too!

Please check the weather and have your child dress appropriately. We will be outside most of the day! Due to busing and scheduling we are unable to reschedule the date.

Thank you!

Haigh Movie Night is coming soon! This event will take place on October 7th. Please vote for the movie you would like to see at the link below:

https://haigh.dearbornschools.org/2016/09/22/haigh-outdoor-movie-night-is-coming-make-your-movie-vote-here/

Can you guess which movie I voted for?

We have book check-out on Friday mornings. Children may keep the books until the following Friday. You may send the books to school any time during the week.

If the children do not have their books returned by Friday, then they will not be able to check out another book until the previous book is returned.

The kindergarten team is asking that each student bring in one apple by Wednesday, September 28th. It does not matter the color or size of the apple!

This coming Friday the students from all of the kindergarten classes will get together and experiment with apples and pumpkins! One group will work on a pumpkin investigation, while the other group makes apple sauce and uses apples to paint a picture! The groups will switch half way through the allotted time in order for all the children to experience both activities.

Please remember to turn in your permission slip and your field trip money by tomorrow!

This year we are pairing up with Mrs. Niner’s 5th grade class. We will get together with our buddies as often as we can. Our 5th grade buddies will help us work on projects, read together, and play.

Last week our friends came in and helped us complete a project to go along with the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes.

Please enjoy these photos of the children working together!

Here are the finished projects:

We look forward to more exciting activities with our 5th grade buddies!

Please remember to submit your book orders online for our monthly Scholastic Reading Club.

Orders should come in about one week after the class order is submitted.

Thank you for helping grow a love for reading in our classroom and at home!