October Week 4

Last weekend we hosted a zoom painting class for some of our grandbabies who are located from Atlanta to Indianapolis! 

I love love love these Halloween cats painted by my little loves ages 4 to 9!

Our week started out as normal as can be!  Ww is for witch which we sprayed with water to 'melt'!

We learned about bats...

We used pretzel sticks to create the letter x and then our names or initials...

We made our own Halloween Cats! 

We then began a fun measurement activity called  "Grow A Brain! "

We made these delicious yoyos on Yy day to eat!  Yummy! 

Aren't these the cutest yellow yaks you've ever seen? 

Earlier in the week we created these little clay ghosts. Then we made ghost houses for them using marshmallows and toothpicks!   What a fun introduction to STEAM activities! (Science Technology Engineering Art Math) There's so much more to school than reading and math! 

We finished up our bat facts just in time to close up school for 2 weeks....sigh

Sadly here's our Halloween boxes all packed up for the basement. 

We will now have 2 weeks of Distance Learning.  And we will make the most of it!  The kids were pretty excited to hear they were getting their own iPad! 

Thanks in advance for your patience! 

And now the week of November 2-6:

Reading/Language Arts: Letter Mm (all week!), star word 'and, verbs

Math:  numbers to 10 printing,  reading,  counting

Theme:  candy corn and scarecrows

Science:  Comparing Plants

Social Studies:  Long ago and Today

Big News: 

No school Monday, November 9 Teachers' Workshop end of 1st quarter

October Week 4

 Here's what we do for fun!  We drove up to NEARLY Canada (we were so close we could have thrown a snowball into that nice country! ) to hike to Magnetic Rock and go moose 'hunting' during our MEA break.  We stayed in Grand Marias and enjoyed the snow on the Lake and agate picking!  I just love winter! We didn't see a moose, but we did see a beautiful fox and a little red squirrel who stole our trail mix! 

 

 
We are attempting to backpack the entire Superior Hiking Trail (326 miles) and are currently over mile 200!

Someday we will finish...someday!

And I'll leave you with this beautiful video:

This week in Kindergarten we set up some new learning stations:

Skeletons:

Spiders:

The kids may bring their playdo over to the playdo center at Zone 2 when it is their day.  They are having a blast creating!

This week we have been looking at nouns!

Nouns for people and noun for places are our focus...(the kids added to it at choice time!)

  

Zone 3 always has academic games and activities that we share during group time:

Zone 2 has a fun beading activity!

On Tuesday and Wednesday we created these cutie patootie spiders to use in a song:

(clickable link if you wish to sing along!)

There's a Spider on the Floor, on the Floor!

There's a Spider on the Floor on the Floor!

Of course you have to have a little fun with UNDERWEAR on letter Uu day!

And how cute is this?  One of the kiddos staged their spider to hold the little umbrellas we got!

Oh my goodness!  Aren't these just amazing?  We painted spider webs and designed spiders to go on this colorful habitat!

We also used our science skills to write what we know about spiders:

Thursday and Friday we discovered SKELETONS!

We put this fella back together....Mr. XRay! We also looked at animal xrays and created our own skeletons!

 

Here's a super cute although VINTAGE Sesame Street clip about bones:

https://youtu.be/LP2rVGbZXrw

Bones Inside on You by the Count

Ms. Kay read us a great story during Library called Room on a Broom!

Zone 4 has ghostly cup stacking added to our fun and games!

This is a fun game called "Where's Spider?"  His is hidden under one of the letters!

And our snack on Vv day was to create VOLCANOS!

(I bring the ingredients a full week ahead, the kids assemble and eat!)

And now for the week of October 26-30

Reading/Language Arts: Letters Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz!!!!

Star word: 'the'

nouns for animals

Math: number 6-10

Theme: Bats and Halloween

Social Studies: Where Is It? Our Big Home

Science: Plants Change and Grow

BIG NEWS:

We will have a celebration on Friday, October 30 at 1:00. Students should  bring costumes to school NOT WEAR them.  We will hand out the Parent Group treats, watch Elmo Says Boo!, dance, and play games!

No School on Monday, November 9  end of the quarter Workshop