We had a great time at Family Fun Night.  According to our class chart, 10 of our friends were there!  I have added the pictures that I have to our class web page.  If you have other pictures from Family Fun Night, please e-mail them to me so that I can add to our web page!

SHARED JOURNAL

We continued to work on sharing our stories and telling our details.  Miss Lewis and I are modeling and helping the students with their questioning skills.  They are learning how to ask meaningful questions that will add to the details of the stories.  The children are doing a great job and are already amazing us with the things they think to ask.

Please don’t forget to send your child’s September journal back to school so that I can put it in their binder!

THEME

This week we focused on Families during theme time.  We began by reading Kids in Pioneer Times and discussing the differences in how families lived in the past and the present. From there we began to talk about why our families are important to us. The children listed many great reasons.  Some reasons were:  they buy us food; they love us, and many more.  We also talked about how our families make us feel and who makes up a family.  The book You See A Circus, I See… was great for helping us explore this topic. 

SHARED READING

This week we have be doing an author study on Kevin Henkes. We have been reading his mouse books and talking about how he is the author and the illustrator. We also learned that his first book was published when he was only 19 and that he lives in New York now. We did many activities to go along with his books such as tasting vinegar (from Owen) and cheese balls (from Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse), sorting things that we would need to take on a sleepover and things that we would want to take (from A Weekend with Wendell), and graphing how many siblings we have (from Julius, The Baby of the World). Next week we finish reading more Kevin Henkes books! 

CENTER TIME

We are working on turning our Home Living Center into a Post Office.  We have been busy reading books about Post Offices, making a web of things you would see in a Post Office and making a list of things we need for our Post Office. 

 In addition to doing this, we also went to the Science Lab for the 1^st time.  The children had a great time exploring the light tables, beans, sand and water tables, the gears, Lego’s and blocks!  We will go to the Science Lab every 2 weeks!

IMPORTANT DATES AND NOTES

If you want to help chaperone our trip to the Montgomery Zoo, please let me know ASAP!!! 

Our library day is on Monday!  Please send in your child’s library book so that they can check out a new one! 

Please send in your conference form so that we can schedule our K checklist conference! 

Friday, October 13 – Family Lunch Day

Monday, October 16 – Loco’s Restaurant Night

Friday, October 20 – Parent Conference Day:  No School

Monday, October 23 – Fall Break: No School

Friday, October 27:  1:15 p.m. – Celebration  (we are on the risers)

Nathan & Camryn observe the properties of the liquids in the Discovery Tubes.  Cameron K. and Taniya explore the properties of water at the Water Table.