50's day and new Shutterfly share site

TGIF!!! Only 26 more school days until Christmas vacation! So hard to believe how fast this year is flying by! Last week, we celebrated the 50th day of school. We dressed and pretended like we were living in the 1950's. We watched commercials and listened to music from this decade. Check out our pictures below!

Can you blow a bubble?

Sock hop!

At this station, a dice was rolled and the kids had to show
the number on their tens frame.

Hula Hoops!

Ice cream floats

We have a new Shutterfly share site! Check it out at https://mrspfountzsclass.shutterfly.com. When we have class events, I try to take a picture of each individual student. I can't upload all of those pictures to our blog, so you will be able to find them on our share site. Enjoy!! :)

November Homework

As promised to you and the students, I have created homework for November. Starting in November, I will send home a homework packet at the beginning of each month. The picture below shows the first page. Each day of the week, the children will do something different.

Here, you will see the rest of the packet. It's pretty self-explanatory. On each page, you will see a day and a number at the top. For example, Monday 1, Tuesday 1, Wednesday 1 and Thursday 1 all refer to week 1 on the calendar.

Please read the directions to your child and let them complete the work on their own. You may find that some activities will require your guidance. For example, there will be times where your child will have to read and/or write words or sentences. Encourage your child to say the words slow and have them write down the letter sounds that they hear. This will encourage them and give them the confidence to sound out words when writing. It's ok if the word is not spelled correctly. At this stage in writing, they're not ready for the silent letters, exceptions to the rule, etc. As for the rest of the work, your child should be able to do most of this on their own without your help. As the year goes on, the homework may get easier or harder depending on their skill level. These monthly homework packets are due at the end of the month. Please send it back in their notebooks. The November homework packet will come home in the notebooks Thursday.

If your child finishes this quickly, I have created a more challenging homework packet. You can find that by clicking here.

Pumpkins!

Look what we did last week! 

We talked about the life cycle of a pumpkin

Mrs. Crawford is explaining the parts of the pumpkin to the children.
After cutting off the top, she showed them the pulp, seeds and flesh.
She explained to the children that when we eat pumpkin, we are eating
the flesh!

We decided that the pumpkin needed a face and a name. We named
our pumpkin Jacklyn and gave her a very pretty face!!

We cut up the flesh to be cooked.

After cooking the pumpkin, we mixed in some
sugar and cinnamon and everyone grabbed a
spoon to taste! It was delicious! 

Insects, Fire Safety and Pumpkins!

I apologize that I haven't updated this blog as much as I'd hoped. With conferences and getting everything ready for maternity leave, it's been pretty busy around here! I have really enjoyed meeting with you all and talking about your special child! :)

2 weeks ago, we spent a lot of time talking about insects. We learned that insects have 6 legs and 3 body parts. The 3 body parts are the head, thorax and abdomen. We focused on ladybugs for our unit of study. We learned that ladybugs start out as an egg, emerge as larva, form a pupa and then come out as an adult ladybug! We ordered ladybugs so that the students could observe them in the classroom. The larva were on back order and came in this week. I'm so excited for the students to see the larva turn into adult ladybugs!

This is a ladybug larva. Quite different
than what you'd expect!

Last week, we learned about fire safety. We discussed all of the things that we should do in case of a fire. On Friday, we took a tour of the school looking for fire alarms, fire extinguishers, emergency exits and exit signs. On Friday, the Tega Cay fire department was supposed to come for a visit. Due to miscommunication, they did not come. We will hopefully visit them in the spring on our community helpers field trip. Last week in math, we learned about greater than, less than and equal. Check out some of the work the kids did in their math journals!

This week, we are learning about pumpkins. We will learn about it's life cycle and just how pumpkins grow! Today, we took a fun field trip to the greenway. Unfortunately due to heavy rain over the summer, they did not have any vines for us to see. Thanks to the internet and YouTube, we have found many pictures and videos to see! In math this week, we are learning all about the numbers 11-20.

Different ways of showing 11.

Different ways of showing 11.

Check out some pictures from today's field trip!