Happy Halloween! I am proud to say we were still able to accomplish a lot with the excitement of Halloween brewing in the air.
In Reader's Workshop, we have been focusing on characters. We learned that characters can talk and authors show dialogue by using quotation marks and speech bubbles. We can describe characters and compare characters from the same book. It is also important to use characters' names when we retell a story. We did a lot of work with the stories Chicken Little and Stellaluna. Our focus will be shifting toward the setting of a story.
In Math, we have begun to look at 2 dimensional shapes. We have studied circles, squares, rhombuses, rectangles, trapezoids, ovals, hexagons, ovals, and triangles. It is important for your child to be able to find these shapes in their environment. Take your child on a shape hunt. The park is a great place for this! You can document your finds with photographs.
Next Thursday, November 7, will be our fiftieth day of school. To celebrate, we will be dressing up in 1950's outfits. Please don't go out and buy anything. Girls can wear skirts (I cut a poodle out of felt and pinned it to my skirt) and pony tails. Boys can wear jeans and white t-shirts. If you are looking for ideas, do a google image search of the 50th day of school. Lots of teachers have posted pictures of their classes.
Don't forget to fill out the Get Active, Get Fit paperwork. We can win a Disney Dance party for our school just by participating. I know that the kindergarteners are active every school day!
Thank you for returning the progress reports and goal sheets.
There will be no school on November 11 in observance of Veteran's Day.
