Happy Halloween!

Dates to remember:

This is the final week for Coins for kids Hunger

*Friday, October 30th—Halloween Party—1:00 pm

*Monday, November 2nd—No School—PD Day

*Tuesday, November 10th—Title 1 Family Night 5:00-7:00

*November 10th-18th—11:30-3:00 & November 19th—1:00-6:00  Book Fair—

*Friday, November 13th—Report Cards Home

*Monday, November 16th—Delayed Start 10:00

**Thursday, November 19th—No School—Parent Teacher Conferences 1:00-8:00

*Monday, November 23rd—Kindergarten Thanksgiving Activities—am

*Tuesday, November 24th—Making Friendship Stone Soup—am

*Wednesday, November 25th—Stone Soup Thanksgiving feast—pm

*Thursday, November 26th-Friday November 27—Thanksgiving Break--No school

Halloween Party:

Please send your child's costume to school in a bag with their name on it.  Please no weapons, makeup or high heel shoes.  We will change in to our costumes at 12:30.  Parent volunteers may arrive at 12:30.  The parade begins about 1:00 with the older classes going through the wax museum first.  We will not be going, but we will follow at the end of the parade and join the school Halloween parade downtown and back.  Once we arrive back we will get out of our costumes and enjoy our snack and pass out any treats friends  have brought to share.  We will enjoy a Halloween movie before going to recess and then home.

READING:

We are focusing on tools this week.  Our letter is Pp and sight word 'a'.

Vocabualry words are tools and discover.  Our category words are color words.  We have been working on color words in some of our activities.

Writing:

We will be reading Go Away Big Green Monster.  We will make our own Go away Big ___________   _____________ class book

This is our last week for our October journals!

MATH:

This week we continue number id, counting, shapes--square and rectangle and I have some Halloween things to count, sort and pattern.

Science/Social Studies:

We re planning to make applesauce to have at our Halloween party.

This week we will also highlight Halloween fun.  This will also include a discussion about voting as we will be voting on our favorite face for our pumpkin as we turn it in to a Jack-o-lantern.

Kindergarten news the week of October 12-16

DATES:
Delayed start Monday October 19.


COINS FOR KIDS:  We are continuing to collect money.  Our class collected $41 the first week!

Book fair is coming.  If you are available to volunteer, please contact Mrs. S. Brinks 825-2021 or sherrybrinks@gmail.com.  The book fair will be here November 10-13, 16-18 and during conferences November 19 from 1-6.

Please return the concusion form and the Home language survery as soon as possible.

READING:
Letter Aa
Sight word we
We will be reading the story Pouch! and Baby Animals on the Move.  As we read these stories through out the week we will be practicing listening and comprehension skills.

MATH:
We are continuing to learn to recognize the numbers 0-10.  We are working on counting and determining quantities, also sorting.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
October is Fire Safety month.  We will practice stop-drop-roll, practice getting safely out of the school and learning how to call 911.  The children will be asking you about how to get out of your home and where your families meeting place will be.  We will also discuss smoke alarms and needing to change the batteries every year.