Happy Halloween! 🎃

      

Ask Your Child About...

1. Author's Celebration
2. Adding one to a group

3. Finding slopes around us

    

    

What a wonderful Halloween Week! Thank you to all of the parents who came out to help and support our class and school! We love having our families come see us! 😊 Next Thursday, November 8th will be the field trip to Kinder Tales! Again, thank you for getting the permission slips back so quickly and for those who have volunteered to hep us! 😊 

In your child's Friday Folder you will find some information about the book fair. I am also sending home our November Scholastic order and will ask for all orders to be placed by November 16th. Thank you in advance for showing interest in our kiddos reading! 📗

🎉 Next Friday the 9th will be a school-wide pajama day! We loved wearing our pajamas to school for our paw jar celebration and are excited to wear them again with the entire school! We will also have an extra recess Monday as a celebration for filling our paw jar again! Way to go lions!! 🦁

📚 Reading this week brought our attention to text and graphic features! We learned how these extra pictures and labels can help us better understand what we are reading. This tied right into our writing as we are working to add details that help our readers understand what we are writing about.

🖊 Beyond adding details to our writing we focused on making a writing piece complete. We looked at some examples of our favorite books to think of some things writers do before they publish their books. We decided that writers took a careful look at their words to make sure they can understand them, they add any last details to their pictures and label things that may need identifying, add extra lined pages for pages that require more writing, and meet with a fellow author to double check. When we were done with our checking process, we had a celebration! Each author read their favorite true story to the class and their big buddies! We also had a toast (... no, not the kind you put butter on 😅) to our great work as official authors of teaching books and true stories.

✅ In math, we finished up our work with comparing groups of objects and moved on to adding one more. We realized we don't need to go back and count all the objects again! No way! We can just count on! For example, if we count a group of 5 and add one more, we don't need to go back and count all the pieces again with the new piece! No way! We can say "5 and one more makes 6!" You can help your child by counting on at home or while at the store. Counting objects in a book and asking what is one more or one less.

🏀 Science brought us outside to find ramps all around us! We experimented with different types of ball, changing the size, weight, and color. Our scientists were very excited to try out different balls on the ramps we found on and around the playground! We found that the heavier the ball, the faster it went! The steeper the slope, the fast it went! If our slope has holes, it is not a very good slope, and color doesn't matter! WOW! What great investigators!

Slope Science Experts!