October 30, 2009

 

 

Happy Halloween!  Today we had our Halloween parade and class party.  Thank you to our room parents for organizing and running the party.  The children were very excited about Halloween; however, they were able to get through all that was expected of them this week.  They are doing a great job!

 

 

The letters we worked on over the past two weeks were F and H.  We continued to talk about the season of fall and made our own fall book titled Fall Is Here.  We also used the book It Is Fall to talk about the sight word “the” as well as “a”, “I”, and “is”.  Did your child read his or her books to you?  During our Literacy Centers we worked in our Weekend Journals, practiced writing upper and lowercase H’s, listened to the story The Little Red Hen at the Listening Center, put the poem “House” together in pocket charts, did “Write Around the Room” for the letter H, and sequenced the growth of a pumpkin.  The stories I read were, Mouse’s First Halloween, Patty’s Pumpkin Patch, and Happy Haunting, Amelia Bedelia. The children made haunted houses and their own jack-o-lanterns.  They also planted grass seed in a cup to grow “Happy Hair” in honor of Mr. H.  We made a big class book titled Halloween Is Coming where every child wrote and drew a picture of what they were going to be for Halloween.  The book is very cute!

 

In math, we are working in Unit 2 of  Investigations.  We started our counting books and learned how to play Grab and Count.  We continue to work with our counting jar and expand our math skills during morning meeting.

 

I’m sure your child told you about the exciting Ocean presentation that they were a part of last Thursday.  It was very hands on and the kids loved it.  Ellen Goethel, a marine biologist, did a great job teaching the children about all different kinds of animals that come from the ocean. 

 

Yesterday we celebrated Jordan’s 6th birthday.  Happy Birthday Jordan!

 

Today I am sending home conference confirmation notes.  Please sign them and send them back to school as soon as possible.  I am also sending home a Scholastic book order.  If you are interested in ordering, please have your order in by Friday, November 6^th.  Our class earns a free book every time a parent orders online so I am sending you the information on how to order online.  If you are ordering using a check, please make the check out to “Scholastic Book Clubs”.  Please do not send cash.  Thank you.

 

That’s it for now.  Have a great weekend and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!