Oct. 25th

Wow what a fun field trip yesterday! The kids had so much fun exploring and jumping in a hay maze
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riding a steam train, petting animals, and even getting to go on a roller coaster!!!!

The best part was that everyone got to take home a pumpkin. Thank you to all the families who helped chaperone this field trip, it was a very successfully 1st field trip. Ask your child what their favorite part of the day was!

Harvest Party:

Next week on Oct. 31st we will be having a Fall Harvest Party. This party will be for all of the K/1 classrooms. We will start at 9:00 and go until 11:15. Each class will rotate to another K/1 classroom to participate in a fall craft such as water coloring pumpkins, lacing webs, gluing pumpkin seeds, Q- tip painting pumpkins, and fall number Bingo! After all the project we will gather together in the lunch to celebrate with samples of different fall foods. Students are not allowed to wear costumes or bring costumes to school on this day, this is simply a FALL celebration. If you have signed up to help with this celebration we will be sending out more information on each specific task next week. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Readers Workshop This week students have been working on getting to know their characters. Some ways we can get to know our characters are by what the say and do. We can also recognize our characters emotions and feelings. By trying to remember characters actions, feelings, and what they say we can re-tell our stories. Every time after we finish a book we practice telling It’s about, First..., Next...., Then.... And Finally! When you are reading at home with your child, have them look for the characters actions, feelings, or things they say. After your finished reading try to have your child re-tell what they just read!

Writers Workshop: This week our class has been working on unfreezing our characters to help our stories come to like. We can do this by showing their actions, what they are thinking, and feeling. We also worked on slowly down with our writing and telling it bit-by-bit and step by step. This helps us to really zone in on that small moment. Finally we focused on making sure we spell words we know in a snap. (Sight words-and, the, a, at, I, it, in, of, you)

Student of the Week:
Unity Unity has been doing an outstanding job this year. She is always pushing herself for a new challenge. She has been a warm and welcoming 1st grader to new Kindergarteners, kids at lunch, or kids on the playground. Keep up the great work UNITY!