Toilet paper rolls and cereal boxes, fabric and yarn

Our classroom is looking for some donations of toilet paper rolls and cereal boxes for our weaving unit. We also are trying to hunt down strips of fabric in a variety of colors, patterns and lengths and any yarn too!
Thanks!

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

On the 18th we'll be heading to the Flynn theater to see Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. We will eat lunch on the road, so please pack a cold lunch. I also need to collect $8.00 from each student to pay for the tickets. We only have enough seats reserved for students and teachers, so we cannot bring any parents along on this trip. It's going to be great!

Buddy Game Time

We always love getting together with our buddies, but today we had a special buddy time. Our kindergarteners are loving learning and playing lots of new games- Chutes and Ladders, Sorry, Uno, Connect 4 and many more. So many of these games reinforce the skills we are working on in class- numeral recognition, 1 to 1 counting, being a good sport and playing by the rules. Puzzles are also a hit. We have some huge ones!

measurement- exploring lengths

In math we started exploring how to decide if something is longer or shorter than an other object. We started today with lining up the ends of the two objects and then ordering them from shortest to longest.

We will continue this investigation throughout next week.

Writing Celebration

In writing we have been working on writing books about our lives- true stories. For the past few weeks, each day we have been focusing on different aspects of writing true stories- thinking of a story, orally planning it with a partner, making sure the pictures show who is in the story, where it happened and WHAT happened. We even experimented with speech bubbles! The kids have worked so hard! This week they picked one story to edit and make the best it could be. Today we celebrated! Each student read his or her book to the class, sitting in the special author's chair. When they finished, we clapped and I awarded them with a Super Writer badge to wear for the rest of the day!

Cora's request

I love how connected the students in this class are with the blog! So often kids tell me about looking at the blog with their families. What a wonderful connection this builds between home and school! Cora asked if I would post some photos of recent pattern block creations. Here you go, Cora!

One more Halloween post

To conclude our pumpkin investigation we investigated a pumpkin I grew at home and some other types of pumpkins from farm stands and stores. We filled out this chart:

And read the book you see above called How Many Seeds In A Pumpkin. Then we found out how many seeds were in the pumpkin by scooping them out and counting them by 10s.

The pumpkin had 392 seeds! Wow! 

We then had some Halloween treats from Wren and Q. They were as tasty and they were adorable!