KIndergator Update 10.12.19


We have a whole pumpkin patch in class thanks to you! Next week we will be busy carving and rolling them and hopefully, if my plan matched my cooking skill, eating their insides!

Reading: We are still working hard on “how to retell a story” starting with characters and setting then moving on to the conflict and resolution. We still have lots of kiddos starting their retelling with a pronoun instead of the character’s name or description so we might be working on this skill for a bit longer.  We are continuing with blending sounds and introduced the “trick” of letters that work together to make a sound in some of our groups this week with the sw, sc, and st sounds. We reviewed the difference between real reading and fake fiction as we leaned some cool things about pumpkins. Did you know they are fruit? Berries? Related to the cucumber family?

Math:  We are into 3d shapes like cone, cylinder, cube and sphere. We were composing the shapes and identifying the parts: faces, edges, vertices, base. We looked at real life examples of them in the world around us and sorted shapes into 2d and 3d groups.

Writing: We looked at other ways to add describing words to our writing through size words (huge, massive, tiny, wee) and through texture words (furry, scaly, slimy). We had to take a character card, name it and describe it three ways in one great sentence! We continued with multiple meaning Monday where we look at how one word can mean different things. This week we talked about the words trip, top and play. We also wrote the most amazing descriptive character sentences about either a hog, bat, bunny or fish. Ask your child to tell you how they described their character.

Vocabulary: characters, setting, conflict, resolution, edge, vertices, face, describe, gravity, lots of words about size and texture.

Big Things:
Don’t forget every day next week is early release due to conferences. Your child will leave school each day at 12:30. Our lunch time will be different as well.
Please be on time for your child’s conference. They are only 30 minutes and run back to back so time us always tight!
We will be making jack o lanterns next week in class and doing two pumpkin related STEM activities. We only need to keep one big jack o lantern for our garden to help us learn about decomposition. The rest can go back home. If you sent in a big pumpkin and want it back as  jack o’ lantern, please email me to let me know!

Thank You To:
  • Fiona who was voted our leader of the month for October by her classmates!
  • Fiona’s family for sending in new / more art supplies. The kiddos are loving creative time each day and coming up with some super fun ideas!
  • Everyone who sent in a pumpkin for us to play with and dissect. We will be making jack o lanterns next week in class and doing two pumpkin related STEM activities. We only need to keep one big jack o lantern for our garden to help us learn about decomposition. The rest can go back home. If you sent in a big pumpkin and want it back as  jack o lantern, please email me to let me know!
  • Eldabelle for our Halloween candy treats. Personally, I have a new favorite food….candy corn coated popcorn!!!!
  • Mae Claire for her sweet drawing presents that she bring us each morning.
  • Avery for coming to our class and making it a better place to be because of her!
  • Hadley for introducing me to all her friends in other classes and grade levels on the playground.
  • Elaina for amazing soccer ball drop kicks on the playground.
  • Gabe for sharing the scoop shovels with everyone and making sure everybody took turns with them.
  • Mila for building a popsicle stick cube that didn’t tilt or fall!
  • Arielle and Gabe for always racing their hardest to win the 2 lap pre ASP championship each week.
  • Jacob for not showing us his wiggly tooth, but putting his name on the lost tooth chart once it fell out.
  • Kendal for reminding Mrs. Powers to, “Pull it together Mrs. Powers!” as I seem to keep losing things around the classroom this week.
  • Mason, Duncan and Avery for counting past 50 this week!
  • Ethan for writing a great transformation sentence this week too.






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