Sharing

Sharing...
We are taking on a new approach to sharing time. We did send home a note about it in folders yesterday, feel free to post that on your fridge or wall somewhere that you can help remind your child about when they will be sharing. Please NO TOYS in school from now on.  We have plenty of great things to play with, including the very popular matchbox cars that kids are really enjoying right now. As for sharing, try to make it a little more special, unique, different than the ordinary toy from home. Here is the sharing schedule, thank you for your support.


Monday: Libby, Jared, William, Charley, Kora
Tuesday: Grace, Syzer, Cayleigh, Corrina, Dalton
Wednesday: Lucy, Sierra, Griffin, Hunter, Waverly, Evan
Thursday: Sydney, Hailey, Davern, Mila, Gabe, Evelym


Morning Activities.....

Sticker story creation

Block building Engineers

First Word match and read

Language Arts.... 
Our Fit Time has been lots of fun working in small groups and having a very focused task of writing our name with our first letter upper case and the rest lower case. Here is a bigger group that worked on their name with kidney beans.

We also have some quiet reading time when we are done with our tasks before heading to lunch. Keep it up readers, doing great!

Book Corner.....
Thanks Hunter for bringing in this book to share with the class. Certainly got some laughs from this group!
Polar Bear's Underwear "This is incredibly embarrassing but . . . Polar Bear has lost his underwear. Where could it be? Is that Polar Bear's underwear? On the page is a die-cut pair of underwear. Turn the page, and the wearer is revealed! No, that isn't Polar Bear's underwear. It's Zebra's underwear--the pair has colorful stripes."

Warm Clothes

Happy Birthday Sierra! Thank you for our yummy fruit stick treat. 

Your kids are cold...that's what they tell us when we are outside for recess. Please, please, please, send your child in to school with warm clothes; hats, mittens/gloves, warm boots, jackets, etc. Mother Nature is changing her tune and Old Man Winter is on his way. BRR!!!

Morning Activities....

Morning Meeting......
How many kids are in our class?  This was the question on the chart today. This was a stumper for some. Kids came up with different ways to count to decide how many kids are in our class. "Count chairs." "Count cubbies." "Count sit spots." Great ideas! We have 22 kids in our class.
Morning Greeting....
Toe to toe! Everyone walks around the meeting circle and we touch a friend "toe to toe." And we greet each other by saying "Good Morning ________!" There are many ways we walk around and greet each other. We also did elbow to elbow, thumb to thumb, etc.  Its a really great way for kids to learn some good social skills; eye contact, greeting each other with the time of day, greeting in a kind way.

Book Corner......
Lost At Sea  by Marcus Pfister. "Tug mimics everything Rainbow Fish does in The Copycat Fish and then gets separated from the class on a field trip in Lost at Sea. Angel challenges Puffer's exaggerated stories in A Fishy Story; and no one can agree on what makes something a treasure in Hidden Treasures."

I like Pumpkins by "I Like Pumpkins is an illustrated book for young children written and illustrated by children's book author Jerry Smath in which a young girl vividly describes her fondness for pumpkins at Halloween. The book is written in rhyming text and includes five pages of pumpkin-related games and puzzles."

Patty's Pumpkin Patch by Terry Sloat. "Patty's pumpkin patch is a surprisingly busy place all year long. There's plowing and planting in the spring, weeding (and lots of growing!) in the summer, and much more than just picking pumpkins in the fall."

Math..... 
In math we have continued to work on different combinations to 5.  Like 3 red dots and 2 blue dots make 5 dots total.  We have also been learning a really tricky pattern on our class calendar.  There is a color pattern, a number pattern and a direction pattern!  Wow!  

Language Arts....
We learned a new letter today, letter Cc. We reviewed a bag of objects today as well. Objects that start with letter Cc are; crown, clothes pin, cat, clock, car, crayon, candle, cards, camera, comb, cap, cork, compass.  Then we went on a letter hunt.  We had to find all of the letter "C's" on a page full of letters.
We have learned the letters M, B, F, T, N, U, I, C

Practicing writing our letter C.

Sharing....
Evelyn "This is my grabby monkey that my dad gave me from a trip."
Lucy "I like it."
Beth "How does it work?"
Evelyn showed us.

Writing....

Our writers are working hard. We are practicing writing words. We have started by making a picture that tells a story and then write about it. At this stage we are writing the letters that identify things in our story. So if one of the kids drew a picture of a house, sun, and people, they would write the first letter of objects to identify their picture story. We are writing every week and are working up to sounding out more of the letters in each word. 

The Big Bad Wolf Came To Visit

Science....
Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf???
NOT US! None of our houses blew down or fell apart from the Big Bad Wolf huffing and puffing! Turns out we are pretty great Engineers. 

 Hailey and Corrina's Houses

 Sydney and Kora's Houses

 Evelyn and JJ's houses

 Sierra and William's houses

 Cayleigh and Hunter's houses

 Libby and Griffin's houses

 Grace and Dalton's houses

 Charley and Davern's houses

 Mila and Syzer's houses

Lucy and Evan's houses

Sharing...
Evelyn "This is my lovey, her name is Luna."
Libby "I like it."
Lucy "Is the stuffy stuck in it or can you take it out?"
Evelyn "I can take it out."
Davern "I like it where did you get it?
Evelyn "At a place with my dad."

Libby "This is a picture of the moose I saw. My mom printed it out for me."
Sydney "I like it."
William "Where did you get the picture?
Libby "My mom printed it out for me."
Evelyn "I like it."

Cayleigh "I had a book about Rats."
JJ "Where did you get the book."
Cayleigh "I got it from Wal-mart."
Evelyn How old were you when you got it?"
Cayleigh "I was two."

Corrina "This is my note book."
Corrian got many compliments from friends saying they like it.
Charley "Where did you get it?"
Corrina "From my grandma."

JJ "Griffin gave this to me and it's really special."
Many friends said that they "like it."

BUDDY TIME!!!!!
Our buddies returned to hang out with us today. We read a story about Fall and then did a water color project. Thanks buddies for coming in. We REALLY enjoy our time together.

That's a lot of buddies!!!!

SPECIAL SNACK......

Pomegranate?! What's that? For many of us, it was YUMMY!!! Others, sour! 

Thanks Beth for bringing in this fruit for us to try!