Week of September 28-October 2:

COINS FOR KIDS begins October 1.  Send in any spare change you feel you can part with and we will put it in our class bucket.  The bucket will be collected by Pizza Hut.  Money goes to World Hunger Relief Coin drive to help end hunger.

READING:
This week we will finish up the letters Ss-Zz.  We are reviewing the sight words I and can.  We are working on rhyming words as we read nursery rhymes every day.   As we read we are using beanie babies to remind us of strategies we can use.  EAGLE is our eagle eye that reminds us to look at the pictures when trying to figure out a word, LIPS the FISH reminds us to use those letter sounds and sound out the words, the PARROT who is JABBER THE RETELLER reminds us to listen to the story so we can be able to comprehend (I tell the kids --remember) parts of the story so they can recall and then retell the story.  Our story focus this week is Kindergarteners Can!  We will learn to listen and use the comprehension skills.

WRITING:
We are writing our first name.  Those that are ready are practicing their last names.  We are using the WRITE MY NAME ap on our Ipads.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
We will be working on learning about the changes that happen in the fall.  We are going to taste and then graph (a math project) which apple we liked the best...Delicious, Golden Delicious or Granny Smith!
Our science unit will be focused on living and non-living.  The butterflies have been a great activity to talk about living!  We had one butterfly not completely form its wings and unfortunately it died.   All of the butterflies have been tagged and released.

MATH:
This week we continue our journey through the numbers 6-9.  The children have enjoyed making their number hats.  Have them tell you about their hats!  There should be a coordinating number of smiley faces, tally marks, 'dice' and ten frame representation for the number we are working on!  The hat also has the number on it so the children are learning the number writing poem to go with it!  We also will be exploring shapes and working on patterning.

There was a question about the Math homework.  Anywhere on the sheet is fine to put your families answers on--front or back, then return the homework the next day as we discuss their findings at our math group time.

HEALTH:
Just want to let you know that we have had some pink eye in our class.  I have talked to the children about keeping their hands off their face and if they do to please wash.  I was at my eye dr and asked about pink eye.  Some forms of pink eye are more contagious than others, so getting to the dr to get checked out is a good idea.  I've had it before and it's very uncomfortable!  Can be itchy or feel like your eyes are stinging, not to mention all goopy.

COMPLEMENTS:
I get complements daily on how awesome this group is when we are traveling anywhere--either down the hall or to the bus!  They watch for ME and they follow so nicely!  :)

SAVE THE DATE:
Halloween party October 30
Title 1 family night November 10
Parent Teacher Conferences November 19