Happy Halloween from our house to yours

BOO!

Here’s what the reading log calendar looks like.  Remember to record the titles on the back.

Parents,

Today I am sending home a November 2017 Calendar, sponsored by Pizza Hut.

Students are to read every night for 20 minutes and record the book title on the back of the calendar.  At the end of the month, have your child bring the calendar back to me and I will give them a coupon for a FREE Personal Pizza from Pizza Hut!!  Such a deal and all for reading every night for 20 minutes.  The students are excited and are ready to begin.  This program will last through until March.

Enjoy reading with your reader.

Mrs. Smith

We had a fun-filled morning with mixing PRIMARY COLORS.!!

We had a visitor, Mr. Marks, a very dear friend and former Kindergarten teacher.  He baked some pumpkin shaped cookies and we mixed different colors together to get the perfect color orange for our cookie.  We put on our LAB COATS because we were Scientists.  We discovered that:

blue and yellow frosting make green frosting.

red and blue make purple frosting

and red and yellow make orange frosting!

We also had a birthday today!

Happy Birthday Tiana!

Tomorrow is Halloween.  What a fun week in Kindergarten!

Tomorrow students may bring their costume to school in a bag/backpack.  I will help the students get dressed after lunch.

Thank you

Another great week coming up!  Tomorrow is our All School Halloween Parade at 1:30.  My Homeroom moms have organized party goodies to be sent in and we’ll enjoy the treats later in the afternoon.  Thanks Mrs. Saleh and Mrs. Hassan.

READING-We will continue with our unit on Friends.  This week’s theme is Friends All Around.

WRITING-Narrative Writing (Story ).  all stories have a Beginning, Middle, and an End.  As you have conversations at home/in the car/waiting for soccer practice, etc. , make up a story with your child.  Identify the beginning, middle and end of your story.  Do the same when you read together at night….”What happened at the beginning of the story?”  Make sure it’s just the beginning event, and not a retelling of the entire story.  (Retelling is for another week.)

Our writing stem will be “I can go to a _________.”  We will use our new words and words that we already know.

WORDS-Go  go

LETTERS-H  h   I  i   F  f

MATH-We will introduce a new manipulative…”rack.”  The kids will enjoy them.  Here is a picture of a rack.

SCIENCE-We will finish our unit on FORCE.  Push and Pull

REMINDER THAT FRIDAY IS half day.  Dismissal at 11:45.

Have fun tomorrow night with your Trick of Treaters!!  I’ll probably be out with 3 of my little granddaughters.  Every day is such fun and a blessing.  Enjoy each one.

Mrs. Smith

We met our fifth grade Buddies today and made a super fun project!!

Have your child explain what we did.

Have a good weekend.

Mrs. Smith

What a great field trip yesterday!  Thanks to all parents who chaperoned and to  weather for cooperating.  I have been visiting  that zoo all of my life and yesterday was the first day that I had seen some of those animals up and moving about!  We took quite a bit of time this morning to share favorite animals and surprises about some of them.  Interesting conversations.

Moving on with the day, we were extremely busy-wow!

We wrote an 8 page book!  Writing an 8 page book in Kindergarten is quite a feat.  The book is in their BOOK BOX and I’d like to leave it there for a few days.  They are very proud of their work.  Lots of writing of this week’s words see  a .  End of sentence punctuation, Spaces between words, stretching out words and listening to sounds that our mouths are saying so we know what letter to write.  Even just keeping up with the lesson is an opportunity to perform well.  Spacing is another text feature.  Here is a sample of a book.  Thanks for sharing your book Zahraa.

then is Science, we had a great experiment about Sink or Float??  They had to make an Hypothesis about 6 different items.  Then we did the experiment.  We observed our findings and lastly we recorded our findings.  THEN, we tried to figure out why some items sank and others floated.  We were really confused when the tiny wooden block floated and so did the big wooden block, but the tiny paper clip and clip sank.  the last item that we investigated was the pumpkin.  I’ll let them tell you the results and, the most important part…why???

Take a look…

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Thanks for sharing your work Anne.

We have  had a busy and exciting day of learning today.

Tomorrow I have a fun project planned for them with their 5th grade BUDDIES.  🙂

Mrs. Smith

Just in case you haven’t heard, we’re going on a field trip tomorrow and boy, are we excited!!!!  There might be some early riser tomorrow.  🙂

Please wear warm jackets and comfortable walking shoes.

Bring a sack lunch too.

All students are to report at regular time-8:35.   Parent Chaperones are to meet in my room at 9:00 for a briefing (LOL)  and we’ll be off!!

Looking forward to tomorrow.

Mrs. Smith

Chaperones,

Mr. Fakih   Mr. Fayad   Mrs. Fayad  Mrs. Hassan  Mrs. Sobh   Mrs. Soueid  Mrs. Younes  Mrs. Hadia,

Please meet in my classroom at 9:00 am tomorrow morning so that through procedures for our trip!

Thank you,

Mrs. Smith