Updates!

To kick-off reading, Maggie the reading dog came and read to the Kindergarten students. Check out our pictures below!!!

We have also been very busy in the classroom adjusting to our regular schedule. We are "Rolling out the red carpet" with out literacy centers. Soon we'll be going to two centers a day. The students have been working hard on narrative writing everyday in Writer's Workshop and are learning new strategies to help them read during Reader's Workshop. In Math Investigations we've started our unit on patterns and are exploring all the ways to create and extend patterns. Today we looked around our classroom and found numerous patterns.

Today in Science Ms. Burns gave us a plate of food to "taste our senses" we made predictions before we ate about how we thought the food would taste and then finished our activity by revisiting our predictions to see if we were correct.

Several of us have had the chance to eat lunch in the classroom with our teachers because we've earned 10 stones in our table jar for good behavior. We're beginning to earn more paws for our "paws-itive" behavior and are really working hard to get our popcorn party!

We still have a hard time settling down after lunch when we do Math and Writer's and many of us are getting too many reminders for our behavior. We're certain we're going to do better and work hard on our assignments.

Open House was so much fun! It's always so nice to meet with parents and inform them of things we are doing in the classroom. We encourage parent participation as much as possible through-out the school year. Thank you to all the parents who joined us!

Our first field trip will happen in November and we are so excited to head back to Diamond D Ranch. Information will be sent home soon, so be on the look out for that.

If you haven't sent in your child's white t-shirt for the tye-dye, please do so by October 2nd. We haven't decided on what color we are going to dye our shirts but we'll be doing that very shortly. Shirts will be sent home prior to our first field trip. We ask that every field trip each child wears their shirt. We will put labels in the agenda as a reminder.

As always, if you have any questions please email, call or send a note in the agenda. We hope your child has enjoyed the first 21 days of school as much as we both have. We are very excited for a successful and exciting school year. Thank you for your continued support!