Week 10:

Pumpkin Craft

We practiced our shapes, cutting, and gluing skills while creating some jack-o-lanterns. 

Pumpkin Painting

We painted some realistic pumpkins as well!

Movement

In movement, the kids have been hard at work choreographing a butterfly life cycle dance. Recently, Mrs. Halverson's class joined us for a feedback session. Both classes watched each other's performance and shared "I like _____" and "I wonder if _____" statements to provide feedback. We will meet again in November to see how we've improved!

Warm and Cool Butterflies

I found some photos that I forgot I took a couple weeks ago! Before we painted our Eric Carle inspired paper, we learned about warm (red, orange, yellow) and cool (purple, blue, green) colors. We painted some butterflies using these contrasting colors. We used our new knowledge of color mixing when we painted our collage paper. 

Math

In math, we finished our leaf pattern calendar. We also continued working on our number writing and representing numbers in various ways (tally marks, numerals, ten frames, and number rack). We had a lot of fun playing a special bingo game using our knowledge of all the different number representations. 

Literacy

We have been hard at work in reading groups! Once students learn most of their letters and sounds, they move on to CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant). This is when reading and writing really start to grow together. In our small groups, we are now starting to do more written phonics with the words and sentences found in our decodable books. Not only does this work on phonetic spelling, but it also reinforces letter formation, correct punctuation, and all the components of sentence structure.