Halloween!!

We had a wonderful Fall Festival.  Thank you to Max's mom for the treats and mystery boxes and thanks to all those that helped and joined the fun.

Yummy treats!

Yucky Mystery Boxes with Monster Parts inside

The whole Crew

Upcoming Events

Along with Red Ribbon Week, Singer is having Character Week to teach the 6 Pillars of Character.

Monday, Oct 24 - Respect - Wear wacky or bright colors
Tuesday, Oct 25 - Responsibility - Dress like a superhero (no masks please)
Wednesday, Oct 26 - Caring - Wear a hat
Thursday, Oct 27 - Fairness and Trustworthiness - Wear wacky socks
Friday, Oct 28 - Citizenship - Wear our school colors, purple and white, or a Singer T-shirt


Monday, October 24-28 - Scholastic Book Fair.  Our class will visit and make a wish list on Monday the 24th.  The list will go home for your review.  If you choose to send in money with your student, please send it in a labeled envelope.

Friday October 28 -  PTA Movie Night - come join Singer and watch Peter Pan.

Monday, October 31 - Halloween parade and party in our classroom.  The parade starts at 2:30 but we will be changing into costumes at 2:15.  Anyone who can come at 2:15 can help get us ready.

Tuesday, November 1 - PTA meeting.

In our classroom, we finished up with the water cycle and switched to social studies to learn about American Symbols.  We finished our number books and will start a measurement unit.  We wrote a book this week about something we know a lot about.  I will share their writing with you at our conferences.  You will receive their progress report then, too.

Have a great weekend.

Pictures from Heyser Farm

We had a wonderful day at the orchard. We learned about the apple trees, saw bee hives, smelled the compost pile, watched the chickens, sorted apples by size and watched Mr. Gavin make cider.  We all got to taste some and it was delicious.  

Learning about the chickens

watching the apples take a bath before heading to the cider machine

filling our cider bottles

the cider machine - sorts, grinds and distributes pulp onto trays
the cider drips through and the trays are left with dried pulp

listening to Miss Marcy teach us how to make cider

Field Trip Reminders

Our field trip to Heyser Farm is Wednesday October 19.

• Your child should wear sneakers.  We will be walking around the farm.
• We will be back for lunch. You do not need to send in anything special.  
• Each student will bring home apples and cider. Make sure you check their backpacks.

It supposed to be a gorgeous 80 degree day.  I can't wait.

BINGO!

Friday night is PTA's Annual Bingo Night at 7:00pm! Win great prizes like principal for a day or breakfast with the kindergarten teachers.  

Happy Friday

We had a busy week.  We are getting more independent during centers and working together in small reading groups.  In writing, we've been thinking of things we know and writing about them.  Students are encouraged to add to their daily writing or they can start a new one the next day.  I hold the writing until the end of the marking period.  You will get the first batch at parent teacher conferences.  In math, we have been counting, counting, counting.  In science we are almost done with our weather unit.  We did seasons, weather and now the water cycle.

Remember to send back reading books on Monday.  Have a great weekend.

Homework

Our first homework went home today in folders.  It is due back on Monday, October 10.  The idea of kindergarten hw is to have the child do a little bit every day.  They just need to get into the habit of doing homework.  The work is not new so your child will need help reading directions, but can do the rest him/herself.  PLEASE let them do the work.  Have fun.

kindergarten team blog

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www.singerkindergarten.blogspot.com

It was just updated with October news!