Pumpkin Patch

We had so much fun at the pumpkin patch. The children played ring toss with pumpkins, went through a maze with slides, rode stick horses, rode a horse swing, and rode a hayride. On our hayride we saw scarecrow families, scarecrows at school, and Miss Scarecrow 2006. Here are a few pictures of the ring toss.




The maze had slides at the end. Here's Valhalla and Joshua going down the slide!















New Sightwords: but, by, will, and, have, up (all sight words introduced: and, be, come, can, go, have, like, one, play, see, up, you)

Thanks Angie Haddad for coming in as our mystery reader!! The kids LOVED listening to spooky stories and earning spooky prizes!











Our theme for this week has

been "Community Helpers". We have learned about where we live, places in our town, and helpers in our town. Next week we will learn about transportation in our community as well.

Math: We are finishing up patterns.

Phonics: We are reading the poem, "One, two, buckle, my shoe." We are practicing singing the alphabet to Q. Please work with your kids to sing the alphabet the kindergarten way(its different now). ABCDEFG HIJK LMN OPQ RST WXYZ

This way the kids dont sing the letter "elemenop"

The pumpkin patch fieldtrip is tomorrow Oct. 26th. Please dress your child in warm clothes!

There is a PTSA meeting tomorrow night at 6:30.

OCt. 31- Pumpkin centers 9:00-10:00

Nov. 7- no school

Nov. 17 Thanksgiving Play

Nov. 21 Native American Day

Nov. 22-24 Thanksgiving Break

I appreciate you all very much and I am enjoying your children tremendously!

Important Dates
Oct. 6th- Fall Festival 5:00-8:30
Oct. 13th- Student Holiday
Oct. 16-20 Conference Week. (If we are having an IEP within a couple of weeks of conference week, then your conferene information will be covered at the IEP.)
Oct. 26- Fieldtrip to the Pumpkin Patch
Oct. 31- Pumpkin Centers (See details below)
Nov. 17- Thanksgiving Play/Feast 8:00 am (Parents invited)
Nov. 21- Native American Day

Congratulations to our new star student Davis!! Davis does a great job following directions, he is friendly, and he is always happy!

















Thanks Stephanie Young for helping with our class pumpkin. It looks GREAT!! The kids made turkey's using their hands.















Fall Festival

Thanks for donating items for our fall festival basket. We are still in need of items for the basket. The theme is Health. Thanks for your help!

The fall festival is this Friday at 5:00. There will be games, food, a bake sale, an auction for the fall festival baskets, etc. My family and I will be there- we hope to see you too!

Pumpkin Centers
On Oct. 31 we will have pumpkin centers in our class. We will make pumpkin necklaces, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin people, and pumpkin patterns. If you would like to help at one of our centers please send me a note in your child's folder. We would LOVE the help! Younger siblings are welcome. If you have an idea/activity that you would like to do at our pumpkin centers, just let me know.

Stampede to read
Lets read!! Stampede to read is a six week program where your child is encouraged to read each night. Each student will come home with a reading card. For every 10 minutes your child spends reading or you reading to your child, you color a star on the reading card. When the card is filled up, send it back to school and your child will get a treasure from our stampede to read treasure box. Everytime you send in a filled card, we will send a blank card home. The top two readers from each class will receive the special prize. This is a great way to encourage your child to develop good reading habits.

Our essential question for this week is "What is fall?". We will learn about the colors, smells, sights, and activities of fall. In math, we are learning about patterns. We will make rhythm patterns, color patterns, and shape patterns. On friday we will have an apple day. We will write about apples, use apples to make patterns, we will sort apples by color, have an apple taste test, and graph our favorite apples.

Sight words: one, play, you

Thank you for all your support!! Your children are a pleasure to know and teach. We truly enjoy them each day.