**Chilly temperatures were felt by all. The trees are beginning to look very bare. The students collected their leaves for our class leaf sort. The students categorized leaves by their color, shape and texture. We had leaves that were colorful, spotted, purple, tan, yellow, red, orange, brown, green, white and pointy. Random students were chosen to write a label for each grouping. Smile for the group photo! We will use the leaves for other projects this week.
**Our Field Trip to Brookfield Zoo was awesome! We had a beautiful day to walk around and see the world of animals. The students spent their free time exploring the world of big cars, monkeys, rhinos, kangaroos, penguins, bison, snakes, gorillas and gorilla babies to name a few and participated in various activities at the Hamill Family Play Zoo. At the Great Bear Wilderness Exhibit, the students enjoyed a classroom experience. The instructor guided us through an introduction on bears of all kinds, looking at artifacts and providing activities where the students could compare themselves to the height of each type of bear. The students saw a black bear skull, touched black bear and polar bear fur and experimented with a grizzly paw print and compared it to their own hand. The students then went out on a guided tour of the bear grotto. How exciting it was for the students to view a grizzly bear right up against the glass staring right at us!! The students also saw some sleeping bears and a large polar bear. The students enjoyed a picnic lunch and some play time at the play lot. Ben's dad took lots of photos. I will post some of them soon. A HUGE shout out to our volunteers B. Barnett B. Ahring, H. Lim, T. Smyth, L. Pierre, S. Jun, E. Rodriguez and Ms. Cummings (Reid's grandma.)
**This Friday is the "JAMMIE JAM" from 6:30-8:00 pm. sponsored by Student Council. Come in your pajamas and dance the night away for a good cause. Student Council is raising money to purchase pajamas for children who have prolonged hospital stays. The cost is $5.00. Hope to see you there!
**The PTO will sponsor an African Drumming Concert on Wednesday, November 20th at 1:00 pm. in the gym. This is an all school event.
**The 3rd thru 5th Grade Turkey Trot will be held on Thursday, November 1st at 2:00 pm. Who will win the turkey??? Our students will be make signs and posters and cheer them on. Some of the runners are our Book Buddies!!
**Trimester 1 has ended. Follow up assessments are going on now. Our new standards based report cards will go out on Friday, December 6th.
**Our school wide PBIS Celebration will feature a school wide BINGO game on Monday, November 25th from 2-3 pm. Our Book Buddies will join us.
**Route to Reading Rotation 2 has concluded. There will be a one week break to complete all assessments for our report card. Route to Reading Rotation 3 will begin on Tuesday, December 3rd.
**NO SCHOOL Wednesday-Friday, November 27th-29th--Thanksgiving observance.
**CALLING ALL COOKS!!! I have 1 volunteer but need about 4 more for our annual GINGERBREAD COOKIE BAKING on Friday, December 6th from 12:30-2:55 pm. I will provide all dough (regular and gluten free) and sprinkles. Volunteers will provide baking sheets, spatulas, oven mitts. No experience needed!! We will roll, cut, decorate, bake and even eat one! Email me if interested!
**SAVE the DATE!! The Kindergarten/Grade One Winter Concert is Friday, December 20th. Because of the size of our auditorium, our concert will be held twice--first performance is at 8:15 am--the second repeat performance is at 9:45 am. There will be some kind of a reception for family. Our room parents will be planning it!
This week:
It was all about preparation for our zoo trip. The students continued their research and fact finding. They reviewed facts about black and brown bears. The students worked on a group Venn diagram comparing black and brown bears. They also gathered facts about polar bear characteristics, habitat and food. The students continue work on their talking storybook project--their version of "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" With illustrations completed, the students are practicing their reading and recoding their words on the app Sonic Pics. It will be ready for publishing soon. Stay tuned!
Reading/Social Studies: The students have begun work on Unit 3 Transportation in our Treasures Reading series. The students discussed what is meant by transportation--a way to move people and things from one place to another. They brainstormed ways they get around and discussed forms of transportation that move fast and slow. They listened tot he Big Book story, "A Bus for Us." They made predictions about story content. After the story was read, the students asked and answered questions about key details in the story. The students took turns using the retelling cards to retell the story in small groups. The students made connections in their own lives about various vehicles showcased in the story. The sight words go and see were introduced. Our target sounds for the week are Tt and short i. Students worked on activities surrounding the sound of Tt at the beginning and ending of words and listening for short i in the middle of targeted words. The students worked on sound blending 3 letter words and used their elkonin boxes to segment each sound. Robust Vocabulary this week included TRANSPORTATION, VEHICLE, RAPIDLY, GLIDE, CONTINUE. The students worked with partners on their fluency reading aloud their pre decodable story, "I See Sam." The students worked on common core standard activities using the text, "Little Bear." Workstations this week included writing a sentence using go and see, CVC segment-sort, readers response--read and discuss, initial consonant review, "how do you go to school?"--graph and compare, rainbow word write, leveled readers--comprehension and fluency check.
Math: The students worked on rote counting to 50, sequencing numbers, finding the missing number and choosing the number that comes before and after a given number. They continue to work on teen numbers in their ten frames, reviewing basic and pattern block shapes and counting quantities to 20.
Writing: Students were busy this week writing their sentence to their "Brown Bear" story. They also continue to work on their journal prompts. The students are really working on where to put their upper and lowercase letters and starting with a capital letter and ending with a period. They continue to use their inventive spelling.
Technology: Students are using the app Sonic Pics to record their sentence for the talking book. No new apps were introduced this week.
Literature: "Leaf Man," "time to Sleep," "Bears," "Polar Bear," "Hibernation Station," "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" "Sleep Big Bear, Sleep," "Follow the Polar Bears," "Don't Wake Up the Bear," "Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?"
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