We have had a pretty full week. We had Halloween rotations on Tuesday. The children visited the classrooms in Orange Pod and did a different activity with each teacher. We had shared reading in our room and they also did song and dance, Bingo, Pumpkin Bread tasting, and made pumpkin wreaths.

We will be having more visitors come to our class next week during Shared Journal.  Please help to remind your child that we want to do our best when visitors are in our classroom.

Also, we have had some very exciting news here at AEEC. The George Lucas Education Foundation is going to be visiting to film the school! There is a detailed letter in your Friday folder along with a release form for filming. Please be sure to fill these out and return them on Monday.  

SHARED JOURNAL

We are continuing share our stories and negotiate with our friends each day. The children are really doing a great job as they try to convince their friends to vote for the story they want to win. During negotiations, we discuss things about the stories such as the topic, how well the person sharing presented their story, how many times that person had been written about, and   whether they told us a lot of good details.

When we are writing in our journals, the children are learning how to listen for the different sounds in the words and are really doing a great job! Please continue to encourage your child to write at home and to share their stories with you.

Please remember to send the October journals back!  

THEME

We took a short break from the circus to enjoy some fun Halloween/ fall books. We read a lot of books with different costumes in them and made a web of what we might want to dress up as for Halloween. On Wednesday, we returned to studying the circus by beginning to look at different types of transportation. We have read several books on transportation and are talking about what might be the best way for our circus to travel. We also learned that the circus is not always traveling.  We found out that in the winter, at their Winter Headquarters to practice their acts.  

SHARED READING

We read more cute Halloween stories and carved our own pumpkin. The children voted that we should carve a scary face in it. (Miss Lewis carved the pumpkin while the children watched.) On Wednesday, we began a book/author study of Joy Cowley’s Wishy-Washy books. We are working on segmenting words into syllables and sounds, and looking at the letters that make up that word. We are also learning to recognize some sight words such as and, the, is, in, and it. 

Center Time

We have been working a several projects during centers this week. The children have been making their fact book covers, and working on a new activity for their math journals. Also, our Advance Department has updated our class web page to show what they did to prepare for our Circus.  

IMPORTANT DATES AND NOTES

November 6-9 – Book Fair

November 10 – No School

November 15-16 – The George Lucas Education Foundation will be here.

November 16 – Tailgate Day!! 

Please remember that library books are due Monday morning.

Quanisha working on her shape pattern for math journals.