SUPER READERS!!! What an amazing week! Thanks to your support and your dedicated readers...we are excited to announce that our class read the most minutes for kindergarten!!! Next week we will find out who the tip readers were for the school. Thank you so much for your help at home. The children are more excited about reading than ever, which is so important right now as many of them have just come over the hump of learning how to read. I really really appreciate your support! WHAT'S HAPPENING NEXT WEEK? I look forward to seeing many of you at the Thanksgiving luncheon next Thursday 11/19 at 11:00 am. All of the kindergarten classes will eat at the same time. We will spread out between the cafeteria and the auditorium and have a longer lunch time than normal, so there will be plenty of time for eating and conversation. Friday 11/20 is our field trip to the Decatur square to learn about goods and services and some of the workers who provide them at various businesses in our community. One of our stops will be Butter and Cream, which has graciously offered to give every child some ice cream along with our tour of the shop. We would like to offer a tip for the workers who are coming in early to serve us. If you would like to donate toward this, please have your child bring in $1 on the day of the trip. We have all the chaperones we need. Thanks to everyone who volunteered! Here are the students I've reserved a sack lunch for: Hanna, Alana, Malia, Hazel, Gavin, Kate, and Ryan W. If your child's name is not on this list, please plan to send in a lunch from home on that day. SHAPES ALL AROUND In math we are working on identifying shapes, describing their attributes, finding shapes in our environment, and making shapes using materials from around the room. A fan favorite for building shapes was marshmallows and uncooked spaghetti (try this at home to get your child talking about sides, "vertices", "right angles", and more)! MORE MATH AND AN ACTIVITY FOR HOME
In math we also have done a lot of work with teen quantities to understand that teen numbers are made up of one set of ten and some extra ones. We are extending this into understanding other 2-digit numbers and how their quantities correspond to how they are written: first numeral tells how many tens, second tells how many ones (i.e. 84=8 tens and 4 ones). You can talk to your child about this at home by doing the following activity:
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