Happy Halloween!

 Another great week in Kindergarten down! This week we had a great time learning about the different ways people and animals communicate! Our read alouds this week were Amelia's Show-and-Tell Fiesta/Amelia y la fiesta de "muestra y cuenta", Mice Squeak, We Speak, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat!, Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake (our star student Ellie's favorite book!), and Even Monsters Need Haircuts. 

In ELA this week we focused on communication! We spoke about different languages, read a bi-lingual book, and made a lot of animal noises as well! We continued working through our phonics program reviewing the sounds & letters of b, t, f, m, n, i & u. We introduced another vowel 'o' and the letter c! Our letter of the week was 'Pp'! We met our next letter person Ms. P with Pointy Patches! We finished the sentence "My pointy patches have ... on them." in our letter journals, along with the Ms. P puppet! This was our most difficult puppet yet, but they turned out the best! We took our Chapter 2 test in Math this week. They all did awesome, they are pattern experts! This week was "Bat Week!" in science! We read There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat, colored an "All About Bats" book, labeled the different parts of the bat, and made Bat hats. In Religion we learned about St. Francis of Assisi and enjoyed watching the 1st grade Saints Presentation. In gym, Mrs. Marchese turned the gym into the best haunted house! They greeted each other in Spanish, chose new books in Library, and created a Five Little Pumpkins background in Art!

In the word work center the students tossed letter bean bags and put together an alphabet puzzle. In the discovery center, the students created a sleeping bat in a cave and in the art center the students made shape bats! They loved playing Colors & Shapes bingo in the math center! They also read a book or played on the iPad in the free center :). 

Big thanks to our homeroom moms, Mrs. Imbesi and Mrs. Groseclose, for helping us put together our Halloween Celebration! Thank you to all who sent items in to help us make it special! We had a blast!

Next Week:

• Monday: Halloween-a-thon! All students are to wear their gym uniforms to school and all face paint must be applied at home. We suggest that the children do not bring any props in that may go with their costume. We do not want them to lose anything right before trick-or-treating! We will help the students change into their costumes by 1:00. We will then be called out by grade to go out the front doors by the main office and we will parade out the bus loop toward Aberdeen. We will parade along the sidewalk on the outside of the recess yard fence and all parents can be positioned inside the recess yard. We then will make our way into the parish center for a dance party! After the party is over, our class will walk back to school. If you would like to take your child home early, they must be signed out at the front desk! We will be all packed up before we go to the party. 
• Tuesday: All Saints Day - No School 
• Thursday: Gym & Library Day! 
• Friday: 1st - 8th grade Conferences - No School Kindergarten Conferences will be in January. 

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Best,

Miss Ryan & Mrs. Lowe