Wednesday, October 14, 2020

October Week 3

 Here's what teachers do for fun!  Craft night at the elementary!  I can't wait until the next one!





We have had a blast with pumpkins this week!





For letter Rr we meet the Rhyming Dust Bunnies! 


We had Skittles Science for the letter Ss!
 



Here's a 2 minute video of excited kiddos and a demonstration of dissolving and dissipation!
Sooooo much fun!

Our Superintendent Ms.Carman came to meet us!  She taught kindergarten in Grand Marais and was right at home in our room! 
She read us a great book called the Mixed Up Chameleon about being ourselves.  
Come back soon, Ms.Carman!
Our pumpkin station is popular with so many fun activities to choose from! 

The kids love to measure themselves against our Jack-o-lantern! 
We broke out the watercolors this week! 
We also reviewed rules for home and school... nice job,  kiddos! 


Enjoy the long weekend!

And now for the week of October 20-23:

Reading/Language Arts: Letters Tt, Uu, Vv

Nouns for Places

Beginning Sounds

Math: #6-10

Theme: Squirrels and Skeletons

Science: Plants have parts

BIG NEWS:

Halloween Party info coming home soon.

Wednesday,  October 21 is Unity Day for Bully Prevention Awareness

Please wear orange if you have it!

Friday, October 9, 2020

October Week 2

I hope you've been able  to get out and enjoy our gorgeous weather with your family!
Here's what I do to reset, relax, and unwind although I did get blisters from this 4.5 mile paddle... half of it was UP the swiftly flowing Trempeleau River! 




The kids earned a popcorn party on Thursday for winning the ABC game!
We watched an Arthur video and ate popcorn and drank juice!



Here are a few of our new stations:

Leaf Discovery Table:



Pumpkin Station:
and a super fun POLKA DOT SOUP station!


The Family Projects are looking amazing!


We've been doing a lot of journaling focusing on beginning sounds.

This one was LEAF MAN (or animal or object)  LOVE IT!




We created these lovely autumn tree paintings using BIOCOLOR and balloons!  


We also made the cutie-patootie OWLS!  I just love a handprint project!
Of course it's fun to get all sciencey as we fill in our Can Have Are chart!


We really were artsy this week!  We also painted these lovely tissue paper leaves...


And here's more writing for THE LEAVES ARE FALLING DOWN!


Our night time Nn s really turned out NICE!


OH This looks like fun!

We painted monsters for letter Mm day after we read go away Big Green Monster! 







During choice time some of the kiddos really worked hard on this very large ABC puzzle!


We also began our first actual lesson in our reading series.

We begin by looking at the difference between letters, words, and sentences.

Great job, kiddos!


Our fire safety unit wrapped up with these super cute fire engines!



Friday science was fun as we practiced being BIOLOGISTS~we sorted animals into categories!







And now for the week of October 12-14:
Reading Language Arts:  Letters Qq, Rr, Ss
Beginning Sounds and Rhyming 
Math:  comparing numbers 0 to 5
Theme: pumpkins and squirrels
Social Studies:  Rules for home and school
Science:  none (short week) 

BIG NEWS:  
No School Thursday and Friday, October 15-16... MEA
No School for students on Monday,  October 19 Workshop day for teachers
 

WELCOME!

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