Wednesday, November 16

This week we have been practicing the words the and is.  Our centers this week included reading sight word books, making a sight word poem, doing a Pilgrim puzzle, a die-roll turkey, word work, and stamping words.  Other literacy activities this week included shared reading poems, read alouds, making a page in a class book, and writing in our I Am Thankful book.  We also made feathers for a class turkey about things that we are thankful for. 

In math this week, we have been working on graphing and writing numbers 0-5.  We also did a fun noodle activity in math and made a class graph of our favorite Thanksgiving foods. 

Later this week we will be writing in our journals and reading a new Let's Find Out magazine about Thanksgiving.  We have finished putting our recipe book together, so watch for it to come home later in the week.  We hope you enjoy our recipes!

Next week we will review all our sight words and finish up the rest of our Thanksgiving activities.  We will also be visiting the Edgerton Hospital on Tuesday morning and meeting with our fourth grade buddies on Tuesday afternoon.

Reminders:  Please send in your field trip money if you haven't already.  The cost is 25 cents. 
No school next week Wednesday-Friday.

Pictures from the week:

Hailey making a scarecrow with pattern blocks

Morgann recording the length of her turkey feather

Lacey measuring her turkey feather

Sam putting his scarecrows in order from smallest to biggest

Wednesday, November 9

This week we have been working on learning the words to and go.  We have done word work and visited literacy centers in the mornings.  Some of our centers included making words with play dough or magnetic letters, making a predictable book for our book bin drawers, rainbow words, and a story on CD.  We have also been talking about different types of families and things we are thankful for.  Today each person in the class made a family tree!

We finished chapter 2 in math, but we will continue to practice making different types of patterns throughout the year in kindergarten.  Chapters 3 and 4 deal with writing numbers 1-10 and representing numbers with objects and pictures.  We have already spent a lot of time on this in math centers, so I think this chapter will go well!

Other fun things this week: calendar, library, music, art, gym, and a visit to the EPAC for a preview to the play, Beauty and the Beast!

Reminders:
**Next week is an early release on Tuesday. 

**Conferences - Tuesday and Thursday

**Field trip to the Edgerton Hospital Tuesday, November 22 ($0.25)

**No School Wednesday, Thursday, Friday November 23-25 for Thanksgiving!

Reminders

Two reminders for this weekend:

***PTA Fall Fundraiser Pick Up: Saturday, November 5th from 8:30-11 a.m. at the Community Elementary Gym
All orders  must be paid in full at the time of pick-up (cash or money order).
All orders must be picked up as the PTA has no available storage.
Call/email Sandy or Steve Doll with questions: 884-0270 or doll.sandy@gmail.com

***The Family Resource Center will be open Saturday from 9-12.  Mrs. Witt will be there to help your child make a Mayflower candy dish for your home!  All supplies are furnished - please come and have fun with your child!  The canopy doors at the elementary school will be open and the FRC is located in room 46. 

Wednedsay, November 2

This week we are learning the sight word LIKE and we are reviewing the other words we have learned this year. 

On Monday we compared apples and pumpkins using a Venn diagram.  This was an activity that our field study student, Miss Bergstrom, prepared for us!  We also made a Halloween book for our book bin drawer.  In the afternoon, we went to gym and music, read a Let's Find Out magazine, and had calendar time.

On Tuesday we went to library in the morning and then visited two literacy centers.  Centers this week included a story on CD, stamping the words I and like, writing we, see, and the in rainbow colors, making a little sight word book for our book bin, writing initial sounds for word pictures, and cut-up words.  In the afternoon, our special was gym.  We also worked on making a turkey and putting together our November calendar. 

Today we went to the second centers in our rotations.  We also cut up a predictable sentence with the words I and LIKE.  I was impressed with the pictures that our class drew to go with their pictures!  Our class is starting to use more imagination and add more details to their pictures!  In the afternoon we went to the computer lab and went on a website called Funbrain.  This is a website that you can visit from your home computer as well!  There are lots of fun games that help your child learn better mouse control.  In math this week we are learning about different types of patterns.  Today, we worked with a partner to build AB (2-part) patterns using different objects in the classroom.

Later in the week we will finish up our centers and learn about spiders!  We will also talk about other types of patterns.

These are some websites that we use at school:
http://www.funbrain.com/brain/SweepsBrain/sweepsbrain.html
http://www.starfall.com/
http://pbskids.org/

This is the map that we have been working on during our Community Helpers unit.