Fall Fun!

I hope you all enjoyed another fall weekend with family and friends.   Below are some highlights regarding our kindergarten learning.

Parent Conferences:  We will have a half day (11:45 dismissal) tomorrow (Monday) for Parent Teacher Conferences.  Thank you to those families that I have already met with.  I look forward to meeting with more families this week.

Literacy:  We are working hard in our classroom learning all about what readers and writers do.  As readers we have learned that we can read books in three different ways:  read the pictures, read the words, and/or retell the story.  We have also been practicing 'reading to someone' or 'partner reading'.  We sit side by side, elbow to elbow, knee to knee, book in the middle, so we can both can see!  We are doing a great job spending time with books each day.  As writers, we have begun working on our very own stories.  We are working hard on sticking to one idea and expressing our ideas across many pages

Math: This week we will continue counting, playing games, reading, writing, and comparing numbers 6-10.  We have been using dominoes, dice, beads, and pipe cleaners to explore numbers in different ways.  On Friday we were really excited because our friend Zero the Hero spent the day with us to celebrate the 30th day of school!  Be sure to ask your child about our friend. :)

Science:  We will continue to explore our Five Senses this week while also learning about leaves and pumpkins. We will use our sense of sight, touch, smell, taste, and listening while exploring real pumpkins in our classroom. *** I am looking for three parent volunteers to help us with a pumpkin carving experiment this week.  We will work on our project this Thursday at 2 pm.***  Please email me if you would like to help us out!  You will need to bring in one medium/large size pumpkin along with come pumpkin carving tools.  It will be a fun and messy activity that will help us explore our senses while using pumpkins :)  We will then donate our pumpkins to Eagle's Spooktacular event.

Spooktacular:  Eagle's Spooktacular will take place on Friday 6-8pm.  This is great time for children and families to share their Halloween costumes with their Eagle friends.  We do not wear costumes to school on Halloween, but we can have fun wearing orange and black or festive shirts to school.

Thank you for all of your support and have a great week!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Eileen Browne