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!!!

Star of the Week, Story Re-telling, Cooking Spiders, Silly Sock Day, Christopher Columbus, Fall

Star of the Week
Our Star Student is week is a friend that loves to jump rope.  She wants to be a teacher when she grows up and loves the color pink.

Story Re-telling

In Kindergarten we talk about the three ways to read a book (read the pictures, read the words, and re-tell the story).  This is important to be able to re-tell in the correct order.  We practice this skill with pictures and puppets at the beginning of the year and later will be able to re-tell using only our memory and words.  

In the picture below, we are retelling the story Silly Sally.

Cooking Spiders

Our Cooking Lesson this week used a recipe to cook spiders. We practiced following directions, the letters Ss, and the sound of Ss.

Silly Sock Day

On Friday we celebrated the letter Ss by wearing willing socks.  We spent the day without shoes and walking around our classroom in our silly socks.  It was a comfy, but Silly Day!!

Columbus Day

Monday is Columbus Day.  This week we learned about Christopher Columbus and how he discovered the Bahamas on accident!!

Fall

This week we are continuing our study of Fall and weather changes.  We have talking about what the animals are doing and how the weather is changing the trees and our clothing choices!