What a busy week! Thank you first to all the parents who volunteered their time this week: Dima's mom and Christopher's mom in the Library, Claire's dad was Mystery Reader, and Martel's, Anderson's, Theo's, Brady's, Avery's, Adam's and Lauren's moms all made the Halloween party a great success and lots of fun for the kids. Thank you so much for preparing those terrific crafts and treats!
The homework for the Seniors is to write the beginning and ending sounds of the Halloween pictures. The Juniors' homework is to finish the Halloween booklet that included exercises to trace several dotted lines (small motor). Please note that the children can complete it at their own pace. When they hand it in I'll look at it, put a sticker on it, and send it back home.
Our science centre now has our small pumpkin in a closed container. We will observing its changes over the next few weeks.
In your child's Halloween folder there were three seeds from our pumpkin. If you can spare the space, help your child plant them and see if a pumpkin patch grows! We also did an inquiry on growing the biggest pumpkin.
In Numeracy, we have been inquiring and talking a lot about the number 5 and, starting with the poem 'Five Little Pumpkins. We have been learning about how to make five in several different ways: building up, down, sideways, close together, far apart, sequencing, grouping same and differnt objects, adding, and subtracting. We've also done sequencing activities where the children have to put in order sequences (how to grow a pumpkin, how to carve a pumpkin, e.g.).
In Art, the children painted small plates red and then yellow on top, to make orange. When it dried they turned it into a little jack-o-lantern, which are all displayed on our hallway bulletin board. Also on the bulletin board are the children's cute drawings of their Halloween costumes with descriptors of their costumes.
With our Reading Buddies, we read and coloured Halloween Concentration Cards. Some have gone home and the rest will go home when they're done this week.
This week we'll do a fun little literacy unit on Bats. How they differ from birds, characteristics, and so on.
We'll also continue our inquiry on Primary Colours and tracking the Fall weather. It snowed today so we will definitely have lots of different kinds of weather in November.
The forms/cheque for the Mad About Munsch play are due on MONDAY. I have to tell the theatre our final numbers so please have them in by then.
I will put in the October Scholastic order on Monday. If you have any orders you can send them in by Monday at the latest. Thanks. The Christmas/Holiday order forms will be sent home on Friday and will be due on December 1st.
Have a terrific weekend. If you ever have any questions about the blog, folders, etc. please email me. I'm happy to help!
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