October 4th-8th

Good Monday morning to everyone!
I hope that you had a fabulous weekend- there was so much going on in the area! My sister came up for the weekend and we enjoyed spending time in Bayfield, as did A LOT of other people! =)

Thank you for voting on our apple poll. The Kindergarteners favorite was the red, second favorite was the yellow and least favorite as the green. Our online poll showed that the favorite was red, next favorite as green and least favorite as yellow. Thanks...I'll put another poll up soon!

Here's what we're working on this week:

Language Arts:
We'll read "The Gingerbread Man" on Monday and focus on characters. We'll also continue to work on practicing our alphabet. Our story for the week is "Here Are My Hands". This story is fun to talk about the gifts that we have and the responcibilities that we have (cleaning up our room, washing our hands, etc.) We'll also focus, again this week, on reading top to bottom and left to right. I will be checking the children's reading level with our Guided Reading Series to get a good feel for where all the children are at and what lessons I need to do to help each individual learner.

Math
We'll finish up our left and right section and move onto counting. We'll focus on understanding one to one matching. Often times children may get into a hurry when counting objects and they get off count with how many items they may actually have. Have your children count objects at home slowly, making sure they say one number for one object.

Religion
We'll continue talking about God as our Father. We'll learn about St. Francis of Assisi, as it is his feast day today. Well also talk about the different ways we can pray to God and how he hears us.

Social Studies
We'll focus on a Weekly Reader dealing with Fire Safety. We'll have a special presentation from the firefighters on Friday morning. Be sure to go through your fire exit plan with your child at home!

Science
We'll be talking more about matter. We'll be learning the different attributes of big/little and heavy/light.

Art
We'll be making an Autumn Mobile.

Centers
We'll be working on some Fire Safety projects and be doing some patterning (Math.)

***Don't forget that Wednesday is Grandparents' Day!!! If a grandparent is not able to make it, a special friend will do too! For more info. check your newsletter or give Miss Sara in the school office a call!!!

That's all for now....Thanks for stopping by!!! I'll post pictures from Grandparents' Day and the firefighter visit when I can!
~Mrs. Westlund =)