Attributes, Red Ribbon Week, Star of the Week, Pancakes and Pajamas

Star of the Week
Our Star of the Week is a friend that like the color orange, loves to eat pizza, and wants to be a police officer when he grown up.  We will be so safe with him in charge!!

Attributes
This week in math we have been studying attributes of objects.  Attributes means the characteristics of each item.  What color is it?  Does it have straight lines?  Any curves or vertices (Yup!!  Your child says vertices (corners) and know what it means!!)?  What color is it?  Etc…..  We used cereal to find the attributes of each item and then sorted them.  We also found the attributes of the basic shapes this week.  Did you know that a square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is never a square!!  It's a funny fact!!

Pancakes and Pajamas
On Thursday, we celebrated the letter Pp with Pancakes and Pajamas.  We used our cookbook to follow the recipe.  We also added some food coloring to make our pancakes orange for Halloween.  Did you know that red and yellow make orange!!!  They were so yummy!!

Red Ribbon Week
This week we are declaring our lives drug free!!!  We learned what drugs are (anything we put in our bodies that makes it sick and not work correctly).  Everyday, we celebrated by dressing as something fun!

MONDAY-Love yourself…Wear red!

TUESDAY--Twin day!

WEDNESDAY--school shirt or color day

THURSDAY-Camo day (and also Pancakes and Pajamas)

We got to watch a video from a presenter about drugs and what we can do instead of drugs (like skateboarding, or drawing, or bicycling)

FRIDAY-Character Dress up Day!

Star of the Week, Nocturnal Animals, Pride Rally, Red Ribbon Week, Text Messages

Star of the Week
This week our Star of the Week was a friend that wants to be a police officer when he grows up.  He can to protect us from "from the bad guys."  Our future is safe with him protecting us!!

Nocturnal Animals
This week in science we have been studying nocturnal animals.  Nocturnal animals are animals that sleep at night and are awake during the day.  We love learning about these animals!!!

(We have owls flying in our room!!)

We compared bats and birds using a double bubble map.  

Pride Rally
This Friday at Pride Rally, we earned lots of awards.  Kindergarten earned the Golden Star from music for the best behavior.  One friend earned the character award from showing trustworthiness.  Our class earned free coupons for Arby's for having excellent attendance.  Please keep coming to school and being on time!!!!  

Dancing before Pride Rally starts.

She is so trustworthy.  We can always count on her to have her homework, be kind to a friend, and help others.  What a great example of TRUSTWORTHINESS!!!

We earned a free kids meal for excellent attendance!!

The music "GOLDEN STAR" award!!  

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Jungle Juice Cooking, Composing and Decomposing Numbers, Fall, Star of the Week

Star of the Week
This week our Star of the Week is a friend that like the color red, like to play Avengers, and wants to be a zoo keeper who takes care of the tigers when he grows up!

Jungle Juice Cooking
This week, we made Jungle Juice for the letter Jj.  We followed a recipe and created a yummy drink!  We practiced the letter Jj, it's sound, and how to write it.

Composing and Decomposing Numbers

Composing and Decomposing numbers is a fancy way of saying that we are breaking the number apart.  For example, to make a set of 4, we can have 3 red counters and 1 yellow counter and when we count them it makes a set of 4.  We can also change it to 2 red and 2 yellow will make 4.  We are number engineers:  we can break them up and put them back together!!

Below are picture of use composing and decomposing numbers.

Fall

Our study of Fall changes continues this week.  This week we read and learned about foods that are ready in the Fall, foods that we can make using them, and how to prevent the animals from taking our food!!

Farmers using scarecrows to scare away the birds in the field.  We made a brace map to show the parts to make a scarecrow.

 We tasted the three colors of apples to determine which one we liked the best.

We made a graph to help us organize the information from our apple tasting and then used the a "data" to learn from the results. (YES!!  Your child uses the word "data"!!!!)

We compared and contrasted apples and pumpkins.  Did you know pumpkins are a fruit, too?  We do!!!

Book Fair

This week was the Scholastic Book Fair.  While we were about to leave on Wednesday, Clifford came to visit the book fair and our class!!  We loved seeing him!!!