2016 Week 10 Letter Ss, Squirrels, star word review

Here's last weekend's fun!

Our first time at Chanhassen for dinner theater!

This lovely lady came home from college in Moorhead to go with us.

I would do this again in a heartbeat!

This week in k, we had lots of Ss fun!

Look at that super sentence our star writer wrote on the smartboard!

We put together space shuttles...

 

Here are a few family project turkeys.

How lovely!

Tuesday's new morning challenges were space counting by 10s...

 

Space ship abc order...

 

Space word families...

 

Daily we write in our writing journals.

Look at the detail in this entry! Wow!

Tuesday's centers included:

Squirrel comparing numbers...

Squirrel read the room...color words focus...

Squirrel beginning sounds...

Fall themed addition...

 

Here's more turkeys!

Wednesday afternoon we created a squirrel silhouette!

First the background was made with the lovely technique of balloon painting...

 Then we cut out and ripped and created our squirrel picture...so pretty!

 On Thursday we had our very first birthday celebration of the year!

 Here's another terrific turkey!

There's only 4 out yet, can't wait to see them all!

 We had a mini lesson on the order of the planets on Thursday...

 And finally, Thursday's centers:

Pumpkin ways to make 5...

 

 Fall word search...

 Fall graphing and tallying...

 Pumpkin addition dice roll...

And now for the week of November 14-18
Reading: letter Aa, sound for /a/, word families
Math: numbers 6-10
Theme: scarecrows (finally) turkeys, stone soup
Big News: conferences are Tuesday and Thursday, see you then!
Stone Soup veggies are needed by Tuesday at the latest, thank you !
We will have Mrs.Olson as our sub on Friday and next Monday as my daughter, Sorcha, and I fly to Atlanta to visit my oldest son, Graham, and his wife. They are expecting their first baby in December!

2016 Week 9 letter Mm, star word 'and', Halloween Party, Outer Space

Halloween on a Monday !

What a fun week we had!

Here's our new morning challenges:

Halloween words...

 One-to-one correspondence Halloween style:

 Ghost Numeric Order...

 Here are some of the fancy treats...Thank you!

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 Oh look at these cuties!

 This reading ref stopped by with his 'Rufferie' helper!

 The party was so much fun! Thank you, parent volunteers!

 

 

 These cuties stopped by my house! My apologies to the last two families, I didn't get a chance to take pics! Thank you for coming out, it means a lot to me!

On Tuesday we continued with a look at our skeleton!

These two smarties are celebrating

 counting to 100 with no help!  

Yay!  

(they are throwing a large pile of confetti!)

Here's the Taste Of Cardinal Country artwork that our class sent to the high school!

And here's more from other grades...

Everything looked so lovely!

We had new morning challenges on Thursday:

Outer Space ABC order...

Star Numeric Order...

Outer Space Word Work...

Thursday's centers included:

Space Graphing...

Reading Robot Words...

Outer Space Stamping and Sounds...

Brain Break Playdo Mats, yep, outer space counting!

Galaxy play do!

We are having so much fun with the space themed dramatic play area and discovery table!

Lots of good, fun learning happening everywhere you look!

Here's some of our art work from this week...last name rockets and concentric circle stars!

And now for the week of November 7-10:

Reading: Letter Ss, sound /s/, 

star words like the I and

beginning sounds

Math: more/less/equal

Theme: finish outer space 

begin squirrels and scarecrows

Social Studies: homes

Science: Our World

BIG NEWS: NO SCHOOL for students on Friday, November 11 due to teacher workshop day.

Your conference times will come home on Wednesday

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