Here are some of the pumpkin treats we sampled this week in case you get the urge to do some weekend baking. The muffins with the cheesecake filling frosting and the seeds seemed to be the favorites for sure! Just know that we swapped traditional flour for almond meal baking mix to make all the recipes gluten free. Pumpkin Coconut Soup: https://minimalistbaker.com/simple-pumpkin-soup/ Pumpkin Muffins: https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/gluten-free-pumpkin-muffins-3519560 Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Seeds: https://joyfoodsunshine.com/cinnamon-sugar-pumpkin-seeds/ Garlic Parmesan Pumpkin Seeds: http://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/260755/garlic-parmesan-roasted-pumpkin-seeds/ Pumpkin Cookies: Pumpkin Cheesecake Filling:
Hello again Kindergator Parents! I am watching the tiny snowflakes fall and picturing the kiddos outside, mouths open, catching them on their tongues. Hmmm…now I am picturing us grown up doing it too! Here’s what we worked on while we weren’t obsessing about snow this week. Reading: We continued working on “2 vowels go walking” tricks in all our reading groups. In some of our groups we have moved on to “putting all the tricks together” and you will notice lots of color coding on the books they bring home as we highlight the different tricks we notice. A few of our groups are now focusing much more on comprehension strategies. Our goal is to help them stop and think about what they read after they have learned to sound out all the words. We also want them to start asking questions after they realize they do not understand a part. In whole group reading we kept working on comparing and contrasting fairy tales and thinking about the character traits the character...
No backpacks or lunchboxes are allowed for the last day of school. We will send home all paperwork on Monday and Tuesday so please clean out your child's binder each day. If you child is bringing a lunch on Wednesday, please make it a sack lunch. (And see below for more lunch details.) Kindergarten through 2nd grade awards day will be Wednesday, May 22nd at 9:30. Every child in our class has earned at least one award, so we hope you will all be there to see them receive it. Please plan on arriving early as parking will most likely be an issue that day. After the ceremony, we will have a class picnic on the back playground. Please let us know if you intend to bring a lunch in for your child that day or have them purchase one from the cafeteria. Addison has a last day tradition of honoring the fifth grade graduates with a walk of honor and then giving a big fun send off to the buses. Please consider having your child stay for the entire day Wednesday and /or riding the buses home...