Who's Afraid Of the Big Bad Wolf?

THIS FRIDAY IS ECO! Please make sure your child comes in dressed properly. The temperatures are going to be much cooler than the rest of the week. So....boots, hats, gloves/mittens, etc. The more prepared your child is for the elements the more fun your child will have. Don't forget to send a snack and water bottle too!!!!

What's The News???
Beth "I had a lot of family over this weekend."
Griffin "I went dirt biking yesterday/"
Grace "I got a shot yesterday."
Davern "I went apple picking."
Charley "I have a loose tooth."
Dalton "I was going to watch a movie"
Mila "I was with my dad yesterday."
Gabe "I went biking yesterday."
Lucy "I went to my Papa's house and played with his dog."
Even "I have a loose tooth."
Libby "I don't really know."
Sizer "I have a race car I built."
Sydney "I don't know."
Hailey "I went Apple Picking."
Corrina "I went to an arcade."
Hunter "I went on a four wheeler ride yesterday."
Waverly "My brother let me......
Kora "I went to Great Escape."
Evelyn "I had a play date with Libby yesterday."
JJ "I drove my four wheeler yesterday."
Sierra "I'm going to the spa for my birthday."
Willaim "My grandma came a couple days ago."
Connie "I went Mountain Biking this weekend.
Alexa "I went running this weekend."

Number Corner... 
We reviewed our number corner and recognized patterns happening on our calendar. October has changed to be leaves of different colors. It has started with one Red leaf pointing up! Then one green leaf pointing right, then one yellow leaf pointing down, then one brown leaf pointing left, then two red leaves pointing up, two green leaves pointing right, two yellow leaved pointing down,  two brown leaves pointing left and today three red leaves pointing up! The pattern changes daily.

Book Corner....
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willams.
Trixie, Daddy and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood Launrdomat. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Trixi realizes somebunny was left behind....Using a combination of muted black and white photographs and expressive illustrations, this stunning book tells a brilliantly true-to-life tale about what happens when Daddy's in charge and things go terribly, hilariously wrong.


Big Bear to the Rescue by Richard Margolis
Big Bear tries to borrow a rope to save Mr. Mole.


Math....
In math we made combinations to 10 on our tens frame boards.  We used two different colors and made number sentences to match our colors.  Like 4 red cubes plus 6 blue cubes equals 10 cubes. 

Math stations.....

Laguage Arts....
We learned a new letter today, Uu. U is a vowel!  Ukalali, Umbrella, under, underline, undershirt, unicorn, unicycle. umpire. We also reviewed the other letters we have learned so far. We are really doing a great job learning our letters. We are able to recognize them, say their sound and identify an object that starts with that letter. We have now learned 7 letters in the alphabet! Way to go kids!!

We then had "Fun Fit Time" where we break off into small groups to focus on writing our names.

Science....
We are Engineers!
Today we built our own houses out of straw, sticks or bricks! We learned about the Big Bad Wolf, who you may have heard of, and then we were challenged with the task of creating a house out of materials of toothpicks, popcicle sticks or foam bricks and two strips of clay. Then we have to see if the Big Bad Wolf can blow down our houses?

We had a visitor....The Big Bad Wolf!!! He challenged us to make a house that he cannot blow down.

 So we began to put our our Engineering minds to the task.....

Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf???? Stay tuned to see if the Big Bad Wolf was able to blow down any houses!


Sharing....
Libby shared that she saw a moose and a porcupine.

Corrina shared her kinetic putty.

Charley shared about her loose tooth.

Sierra shared her stuffed loon.

It sure has been a beautiful couple days outside at recess.

Fit Block

REMINDER..... We do not have school tomorrow, Friday it is Inservice day for teacher training. And no school on Monday to observe Columbus Day.



Sharing.....
Lucy "This is my ring I got from the Martha's Vineyard toy store. I have a jewelry box at my house there."
Evelyn "What's on it?"
Lucy  "Teddy bear."
Charley "Where did you get it."
Lucy "MV toy store."
Sydey "I like it."
Lucy "Thank you."

Sydney "I don't remember where I got this. It is a dog and my puppy Sandwich ate my puppy."
William "How does the Dr kit work?'
Sydney "There are tools in it."
JJ "Where did you get it."
Sydney "I don't remember."

Cayleigh brought in a toy dinosaur.
Dalton "why do you have a toy animal."
Cayleigh "Because I got it at a parade."
Mila " I like it."

Dalton shared that he got sunglasses at a store.
William "When did you get them?"
Dalton "Yesterday I did."
Cayleigh "where did you get them?"
Dalton I git them at a store.
JJ "Did you get them yesterday?"
Dalton "Yes."


Language Arts....
We learn new letters all the time. Now we are practicing with the whole group and each of us has a chance to be the teacher!!!!

Language Arts...
"Fit Block" is fun block!  This is small group work time. There is a teacher for each small group. We do activities around letter recognition and writing our names. Here is one group that has been working with wiki sticks to write their names.

Math....

We have been working in small groups doing stations.  Here are some stations that we have been doing!

Rubber band trays

Spill the Beans game

Pattern Blocks

More spill the beans

Unifix Cubes creations

New Writing Folders

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, send your child in with appropriate clothing for going outside. Believe it or not, we still may go out in the rain. Whatever the elements outside, we want to be prepared to go out. Rain boots, rain coats, hats, gloves, extra clothes in case they get wet and want to change.  If kids don't come in with their proper clothing they may have to stand on the pavement so that they don't get so wet.

Morning Meeting....
Today we are emphasizing being KIND! Everyone had to think of a way to be kind to others and share with the whole class. We all had some great ideas. Keep thinking of ways to be Kind and keep being kind. "Being kind is very important!"

A, E, I, O, U are our special letters, vowels! Without the vowels we don't get to make our words. We sing a song that changes the original words to using all the vowels. It's called Apples and Bananas. Ask your child to sing it with you. It's a pretty funny song!

Morning meeting consists of many different parts. There are so many parts to our meeting because we want to keep it interesting and fun! We read the chart, went around the circle and expressed one way of kindness, played a number matching game, saying good morning to our neighbor and showing that neighbor a "finger flash", reading a story. It's a lot but its A LOT of fun!


Sharing....  We will have a schedule coming out to you soon. We will have just a few kids able to share each day.

Hailey, shared a picture of her and her horse Thore.
Cayleigh "I like your horse picture."
William "Where did you ride on the horse?"
Sieera "When did you get the picture?"
Hailey "I don't remember."


Libby "This is a flamingo I got from my mom, she got it in Florida."
Evelyn "when did you get it?"
Libby "When I was tinsy winsy."
Sydney "I like it."
Lucy "I like it."

Evelyn "This is a picture of my dogs puppies."
Davern "where did you get the picture?"
Evelyn "Connie printed it for me."
Lucy "I like the puppies bed"
Waverly "I like how the big dog is snuggling the puppies, its really cute."
Evelyn "Thanks that is the mom."

Charley "I have a monkey at my house and I forgot him at home and he is brown.
William "when did you get him?"
Charley "When I was one."
Waverly "Is it the Jack monkey from the show?"
Charley "No."


Language Arts....
Echo came to practice letters with us. Bb, Ff, Tt, Mm, Nn, Ii. Today we learned about the letter, vowel Ii. We reviewed some pictures that started with the letter Ii. Ie: icing, igloo, iguana, inch, ink, insect, iron, itch, ice cream.

Writing....
We started our writing activities today.  We all got special yellow writing folders and we thought about something that we know a lot about.  Then we drew a picture and we tried to use some letters to match the things in the picture.  For example someone drew a fish and write the letter F, someone else drew a garden and wrote the letter G.  We are so excited to be learning to write!

Four Winds-Spiders!

Morning Activities....

Morning Meeting....
It's a busy day in Kindergarten. We have our very first Four Winds class today to learn about Spiders! We also have Art and P.E. today.

HAPPY 6th BIRTHDAY WILLIAM! 

Thank you for bringing in some special fruit treats to share. 

What's the news?

This is a morning greeting we do with the kids from time to time. They get to exercise their social skills while sharing about something that may have happened over the weekend, a quick show of something special to them, or any ole thing they would like to share. Here is is what some had to say...

Griffin "The news is I have a toy car. It turns and has shock absorber's."

Grace "I went on a walk yesterday."

Davern "I'm going to Evelyn's house and she has puppies."

Charley "I am getting hot lunch today.
Dalton "My news is I went apple picking."
Mila "I went to a birthday yesterday.

Gabe "I am cold lunch."

Lucy "Yesterday I went to the toy store and got a brand new necklace."
Even "I have a dinosaur egg that is going to hatch."
Libby "I saw stars when I was leaving Williams party."

Syzer "I got a new car with doors that open and close."

Sydney "I saw Lucy at the store one time."

Hailey "I got to have a play date yesterday."

Hunter "I have a new race car."

Waverly "I went to McDonald's yesterday with my aunt and she told me not to tell anyone. But I'm telling you guys."

Kora "I'm cold lunch today."

Evelyn "My dog had 3 puppies."

William "I have this cool car. Today is my birthday."

Cayleigh "I went apple picking."

Book Corner....

Busy Bugs by

Math....

Patterns. We continue to work with patterns. We notice patterns at our Numbers Corner, patterns in unifix cubes and then transferring the pattern to paper using crayons to show what their pattern was. Creating patters with rubber bands and patterns with pattern blocks.

 Four Winds...
Today Stephanie Dix (Sierra's Mom) came in to class to teach us about Spiders. Four Winds is a PTO sponsored science program that we do once a month. Today we watched a puppet show, looked at many different spiders, played a little game with yarn representing a "web" and starting our Nature Books. It was a lot of spider info and learning about adaptation.