Last week of October!

This week we will be starting Unit 3 and will be talking about the rules we have to follow in different places, which is a great topic for us to talk about. It is so hard to understand sometimes why we have different rules at home and school or even different rules when we are inside or outside, but I know we will have some great conversations about this essential question. We will be reading “How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? “ “Be Safe” and “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. In our crabby books we will read “Can I Pat It?” and “Tim Can Tip it”. We will be learning about the letter “i” and the sound it makes and will also be learning the word “to”. We are learning so much all the time in kindergarten! Our vocabulary words this week will be rule, cooperate, guard, prank, and responsible. I just know that we will be having some great collaborative conversations this week! I am also super excited because we will be learning about another great strategy that readers use – for the past few weeks we have been talking about how readers ask and answer questions while reading stories, and this week we will be introduced to a new reading strategy “visualize”. We will begin talking about how sometimes we can use the words and pictures in a story to make pictures in our minds of what is happening. Every week we read a interactive read aloud story that only has four pictures so this will be a great strategy to use!

We will also be reading some great fall and Halloween books this week. Many of my friends celebrate Halloween so we will talk about some of their traditions. On Friday we will hopefully be having a little Fall Fun in the afternoon where we will get to play some fun games – hopefully the weather continues to be nice so we can play some of them outside! 

A few weeks ago we were introduced to the CAPS man and we will be reviewing the conventions of writing again this week! We will continue to talk about the importance of adding details to our stories and also reviewing how turtle talk can help us spell words we don’t know how to spell.  It is amazing to see the sentences that the kids are writing – I promise you would be impressed!

In Math we will continue to tell addition and subtraction story problems and act them out when we can. We will also practice making the number 9 and have fun creating and extending patterns. This week we will also be using a new manipulative during counting mats to help us see numbers 1-10.

On Friday we had our all school assembly and got to watch a few videos that helped us get fired up about making good choices and living a healthy drug free life! We are working hard on making our door decoration – we have chosen to do superheroes – we have started working on our wall and even got to take a picture as a superhero! nWe will continue to work on our drug free books this week. We will talk about who can give us medicine and the different kinds of medicine that the doctors or parents might give us. We will also talk about things we can do instead of doing drugs. This week is Red Ribbon Week and everyday we will wear our red ribbons and we are also asked to wear a different color to show our support.

Mon. – Oct. 26^th  – wear red – to show we are RED-y to live a drug free life and be healthy

Tues. – Oct 27^th – wear your favorite team apparel or colors – so we can team up against drugs

Wed. – Oct. 28^th  – dress to be your best – to remember we have to work hard and be smart to be successful

Thurs. – Oct. 29^th  – wear bright colors – to show that we are too bright to do drugs

Fri. – Oct. 30^th – wear clothes inside out or backwards – to show the world we won’t let drugs mix us up on the inside of our bodies

Here are some pictures from the pumpkin walk to demonstrate the different days!