Important Dates To Remember
The Red Cross Smoke Simulator will be visiting our kindergarten.
Fire Safety Week
Fire Fighters will be visiting us.
Columbus Day
Kindergarten Halloween Parade 1:15 PM
FALL FESTIVAL
Family Fun Night
5:30 - 8:00
Teacher Work Day
No School for Students
Happy Halloween Stay Safe
In
Reading, we will work in
Theme 2, "Families"
and begin Theme 3 "Friends at
School".
Books for this theme and the next are: "Bear's Busy Family" by
Stella Blackstone, "What Will Mommy Do When I am at School?" by Delores
Johnson, Bee - bim - Bop!", by Linda Sue Park, and "Up, Up, Up! It's
Apple-Picking Time by Jody Fickes Shapiro, "The Little School Bus" by Carol
Ruth, "I Love School!" by Philemon Sturges, "Jessica" by Kevin Henkes and
"Sparky and Eddie: The First Day of School by Tony Johnston. The letters
to be introduced at the end of the month are Dd, Ii, Gg, and Ff. The new words
will be: to, like, he,
come, here, and this.
There is only one new letter being emphasized so that children can build
words with the letters they have already learned. At this time the
children should recognize name and sound of Ss, Mm, Tt, Rr, Nn, Pp, Aa,
Cc. They should now be able to blend what they know and build new
words, some of which are: Sam, Pam, ram, am, at, sat, mat, rat, Nat,
pat, cat, map, cap, tap, rap, nap. Segmenting or taking apart words is
still being focused on along with the following skills: identifying
the beginning, middle, and end of the story, naming the characters in the
story, and the setting of the story, and recognizing words that rhyme.
Writing focus will be on writing the sounds that you hear to create three
letter words. If you don't know how to spell the word you want, try to
just get the beginning sound and possibly the end.
We are still
working on our pattern unit in Math.
We are building patterns with cubes, chains, double sided
discs, beads, words, and other objects. We are making AB, ABB, AAB and
ABC patterns. We are making our own, copying others and learning how
to reconstruct a given pattern with other things. An example would be
an AB pattern of colored circles red, blue, red, blue, red, blue, now
reconstruct the same pattern with money.......penny, nickel, penny, nickel,
penny, nickel. We will be observing the pattern that is created when
counting by 10s, 5s and 2s. The chapter test will be in the middle of the
month and the next chapter will be "Number Recognition and Counting"
Science
Science in the classroom is still centered around our 5 Senses. We
will be looking through magnifying glasses, and kaleidoscopes. We will
learn other ways to tell about objects if you can not see them. We
will identify lots of different sounds and classify them by good sounds/bad
sounds. We will smell different things and try to guess what they are.
We discussed our favorite way to eat apples and made a graph that shows our
most favorite and least favorite. Apple Pie was the winning way. We will differentiate between things
that feel soft, rough, wet, dry, smooth, hot, cold, and bumpy. At the
end of the 5 Senses unit near the end of the month we will have a big
popcorn party and use all 5 of our senses, seeing, hearing, smelling,
touching and tasting.
Social
Studies for the month will
revolve around fire prevention The month of October is fire safety month. We will talk about the
hard work of the fireman, how to report an emergency and the Do's and
Don'ts concerning fire safety. We will also learn about Christopher
Columbus. We will have a character counts program and hopefully meet
Elmer the Elk. October is also drug awareness month and we will
concentrate on "Just Say No to Drugs!" Our school has become involved
in a new behavior system that gives students paw prints for making good
choices. The paw prints can then be turned in for rewards. The
first school-wide reward is a movie and a treat. Three panther paws
are needed for the movie and two for the treat to be earned by October 23.
Children can earn paw prints anywhere in the school for making good choices.
October Jokes
