Crazy Week!!

We had a short week but still managed to get things done!!  Parent-teacher conferences went great, the Book Fair was hoppin' and the Fall Festival was a blast!!  Can't wait till our pumpkin patch field trip next Thursday!!


Literacy

• handwriting: Kk and Pp
• word wall words: black, it, is, for
• poems: The Black Song, Pumpkin, Pumpkin
• made a circle map of things that start with the letter "P"
• read The Leaf Man and made our leaves into something different (It used to be a leaf.  Now it's a ____.)
• read Pumpkin Soup and made our pumpkins into something different (Pumpkins can look like____.)
• made a circle map of things that make us a good friend
• made a circle map about pumpkins and on the outside of our map we wrote things that a pumpkin is NOT
• Completed center work
• magnet center had fall words (pumpkin, acorn, football, scarecrow, etc.)
• pocket chart was a review of blending sounds to make a word
• read it, make it, write it
• rhyming words
• things that start with the letter "K"
• completed sentences of what a pumpkin is and what it is NOT
• writing center
• computers
• write the room to the word AUTUMN

Math

• continued our work with patterns
• learned how to make a number sentence and came up with different equations to equal 5
• worked on our word problems by using manipulatives on trees
• students would tell their problem to the class and see if they could get the correct answer
• ex: Three birds were in a tree.  One bird flew away.  How many birds are left?

Science

• learned the pumpkin life cycle
• acted the life cycle out
• put the life cycle in order and made it a headband
• started a KWL chart (what you KNOW, what you WANT to know, and what you've LEARNED) with Ms. Ragan's class
• tables worked together to put the life cycle in order

Don't forget:  Next week is Red Ribbon week!  Make sure to participate in the fun dress-up days!  Also, picture day is Wednesday so look your best!!