I was lucky to drive to Indianapolis during MEA weekend to see my Indiana family! This is my oldest daughter, Shae, and her beautiful family: her husband, Chris and my grandbabies! Wren-7, Calla-5, Crusoe-4, and Pia-2!
Shae and her in-laws host a huge and beautiful neighborhood Halloween party so we popped over to 'help' and take lovely photos.
Shae's Lewiston friend since kindergarten stopped in for the evening... what fun!
We made halloween treats and
potato soup!
Plus there was bubbles!
On the way home I always stop to see my son, Lee in Wisconsin Dells!
He is in a relationship with a lovely lady and I finally got to meet her 4 kids. So, pumpkin patch here we come!
It's nice to see him flourishing in the role of caregiver!
Okay okay enough about me....
Back at school on Monday, this wonderful fella brought wafer cookies for our Ww snack...
We began a walking water experiment...
But... it didn't work here at school! Failure is okay and we talked about why the water began to transfer but quit after an hour. The obvious answer was I used nice paper towels at home as wicks but at school all we could find was poor quality napkins. They dried out. Lesson learned.
We are so lucky to have 2 St.Mary's students join us for 2 hours a day on Monday, Wednesday, Friday mornings. Ms.Wallrich is helping to make our letter x day x-ray so they'd be dry tomorrow....
And Ms. Seifert is overseeing making our Wicked Witch melt away!
We created these last week but I just got them up on the hallway. They are so wonderfully individual!
I had dental surgery on Tuesday so the kiddos had Mrs.Olson as a sub. I got home around noon and took a nap with my pup, Loki. Whew, glad that day is over!
These are some impromptu morning challenges:
(they did not make the rounds but stayed out as bonuses)
Missing numbers...
rhyme time leaves...
numbers 1-10...
Our Milk Moola Box Tops challenge is over!
Thank you to all who sent some in
We will have another in the Spring so keep saving!
The entire student body received a free pumpkin on Wednesday compliments of Bronks!
WOW! What a gift!
This guy brought Yummy Yogurt for Letter Yy snack!
Oh My~ Here's the newest members of our 100 Club!
I was gone on Xx day but I just have to share the clever Xx treat we received...
Wow! That was Xtra special!
We measured ourselves against a big jack-o-lantern with the help of our college girls...
Oh, THIS looks like fun!
We made spiders to sing a song with!
There's a spider on the floor, on the floor...
Then we sequenced a spider web and wrote a sentence then voted YES or No...
Good Reads this week...
I had these centers set our for our sub on Tuesday.
No group shots though...
We did spin a shape...
Pumpkin Addition...
Fall word search...
and shape sorting...
Thursday's centers included:
Spider numeral match...
Halloween counting by 5s...
Bat Rhyme Time...
Thank you for the zany zebra cakes...
We loved the zany zebra morning message!
Thursday's centers included:
Brain break spider and jewels playdo...
Beginning sound spiders.
STEM challenge: create shapes using gum drops and tooth picks...
Spider web painting..
Spider adding...
On Friday we celebrated this k kids birthday!
These are our last letters of the day:
Our room is slowly getting ready for Halloween...
What fun!
And now for the week of October 29-November 2:
Reading: Letter Mm (all week. Now we focus on letter formation and sound)
Star Word 'and'
Rhyming and Beginning Sounds
Math: Numerals 1-5
Theme: Bats, Halloween, Scarecrows
Social Studies: Seasons bring change
Science: Our World
BIG NEWS:
Please return conference sign up sheets by Friday.
Hope you can make it our to my house for Halloween!
I'll be home from 4-7.
No School for students on Friday, November 9
teacher workshop
Late Start 10:00 Wed, November 14.
Late Start 10:00 Wed, November 14.
