Week of October 15-19

Dear families,

I hope you're enjoying this beautiful fall weather! We had another busy week in Room 166!

The words of the week were THE and DO. The letter sound of the week was Cc (the "hard" Cc like "cat"). We made lots of words together with the letters S A T I P N and C. I sent a list home with the kids to keep in their Bedtime Book Box.

This week was all about apples! We did a chart of the parts of an apple, made a class book called "Who Took the Apples from the Apple Tree," made applesauce together, and we are doing an experiment about apples, too! We put a slice of apples in water, oil, vinegar, salt and air, and the children predicted what would happen to them. We'll track our observations on Monday. The children also made an apple booklet with their Reading Buddies, and the SKs made a little apple booklet, writing apples adjectives.

Wednesday was a terrific day at Andrew's Scenic Acres! Thank you so much to Amy, Donna, Noura and Sarita who were our awesome parent volunteers. The children had a wonderful time exploring the hay mountain, the corn maze, the chicken coop, the haunted forest, going on a wagon ride, picking a pumpkin, and learning about raspberries, blueberries, Native Corn and pumpkins. We brought a big class pumpkin back to school and we'll be learning all about pumpkins next week. The children also had fun decorating our classroom with Halloween decorations. Next week we will start all kinds of numeracy and literacy activities with a Halloween theme. Lots of fun and learning!

October 24th is Wear Purple Day.

If your child has a lower case "a" in his/her name, I sent home an extra letter formation practice sheet. The SKs are encouraged to write their names with a capital letter at the beginning of their name followed by lower case letters.

Ms. Zappi and I are doing the school-wide "We Scare Hunger" initiative again to help collect food for the Daily Bread Food Bank. Families are asked to send in non-perishable and nut-free items such as canned goods and dry goods. Thank you so much for supporting the Daily Bread Food Bank!

Thank you as well to this week's Mystery Reader Jessica!

That's the news for this week - have a wonderful weekend!