Hope your MEA Fall break was amazing!
I was lucky enough to fly to Atlanta to visit with my son and his lovely family and (a bonus!) my daughter from Indianapolis joined us!
I had some long over due Grandma time!
I love these people!
We had a painting party or 2!
Ladies day at Atlanta Botanical Gardens!
Back in Minnesota...
We've finally finished our ABC book! Be looking for a homework page about this masterpiece coming home on Monday. You're going to love it!
These spider webs are gorgeous!
Can you guess what this week's Sight word was? The!
This is exciting... these are our trick-or- treat bags!
When learning about THE, the kids re-write the chart I made earlier sorting numerals, letters, words, and one beautiful sentence: "Kindergarten is Awesome!"
During our bat unit (in the words of my 4 year old granddaughter "Bats are very helpful creatures! ") we took our first look at word families... the ~at family!
We also made these adorable puppets to practice the ~at family!
Thursday's centers included:
Roll a Monster!
Each rotation of kids drew this collaborative MONSTER!
Halloween Words...
What number comes next with Ms. Erin...
Playdough Monsters!
We put together these friendly spooky mummies to decorate for Halloween!
We had 2 days of spider themes
(these are also very helpful creatures)
At my center on Tuesday party of the activity was to draw a spider remembering some of our learning about spider anatomy:
The first part of my center was to have the kiddos create a chocolate spider! They ate a small one I had made earlier (allowing time for the chocolate to set! ) Their spider was available for snack time the next day...MMMM!
The other stations were:
Spider Beginning Sounds...
Spider More and Less
Spider BDGPQ lowercase sort...
Spider +1 (adding one to a number)
Here's more from my station...chocolate spiders!
We talked about liquid and solid as we worked with the melted chocolate and noticed what happened.
These are the little guys I made for the kiddos.
I used a piping bag!
On Monday they kids designed (I hot glued) spiders for a fun song...there's a spider on the floor on the floor!
This is our spider and bat table...what fun!
Oh we made these creepy cutie jack-o-lanterns!
This was a lovely reflection page the kiddos did for letter Tt day...draw your teacher!
My teacher heart is full!
MEA week centers were pumpkin themed:
Pumpkin Stackers are fun...
Design a Jack-O-Lantern...
Parts of a Plant (for our science topic this week)
Pumpkin uppercase-lowercase match...
More playdo pumpkins!
My table was a STEM challenge.
The kiddos needed to design and create a square pumpkin!
We spend a lot of time reading different poems and charts during group time!
We took a close look at
WHEN IS IT A GOOD TIME TO GO TO THE BATHROOM
We discovered we have 9 (that's NINE!!!) times that we have to use the bathroom.
Other classes have scheduled times so we have to avoid those.
We are understanding about accidents but they are the exception.
If kids ask (especially after JUST RETURNING from a scheduled potty break) the answer is usually
"Can you wait?"
Thanks for taking a little time at home to review this.
I brought treat for Uu Day...Upside Down Umbrella Cupcakes!
We reviewed our THREE initials for the Pumpkin Station:
(that's what's on the little pumpkins at the top...they didn't photograph well)
Remember I will post our Halloween fun next week.
I need a prep time (or two) to publish this blog and my prep time is in the morning.
So stay tuned for our fun afternoon!
And now for the week of November 1-4:
Reading/Language Arts: Letter Mm, sound for /m/
Verbs, beginning sounds
Math: #0-10 (focus on printing numerals)
Theme: Skeletons, Candy Corn, and Scarecrows
Science: Plants are the same and different
Social Studies: Long Ago vs. Today
BIG NEWS:
End of Quarter 1 is Thursday, November 4
NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS on Friday, November 5
Teacher Workshop Day
