Pumpkin Experiment

Pumpkin Experiment Fun

10/28-11/01/19

• Today we sent Agendas, letter and sight word sheets, and other important information in 3 ring binders. We got rid of the purple folders as they were breaking. I showed the students and explained that the white binders are replacing the purple folders. I hope this works out better. 

• Today we also sent home our next field trip note. We are not taking any extra chaperones as this is an event that is paid by seat and has limited seating. We have sent them home now and are asking for money by Nov. 14th (a month before) because the venue wants payment before we go. 

• The school has also asked that we inform parents that they are working on having all payments being made electronically on My Payments Plus. you can go to http://www.mypaymentsplus.com/ and register. 

This week in reading we read The Night Before Halloween. This was just a fun book that got the kids excited for the week. We worked on characters and setting, students picked out their favorite character and setting, as there were many. Students worked on writing about their favorite part of the story, beginning middle and end, and syllable count. Ask your students how we counted out syllables. 

In math this week we worked on some fun halloween activities. We worked on counting and graphing halloween objects. We made greater than and less than books. On Thursday for Halloween we measured objects with candy corn, and after got to eat some. Today they made jack o'lanterns with shapes, and had to count/graph how many of each shape they used. Going into next week we will start working more on greater than/less than/and equal to. 

 

This week in writing we learned about spiders and wrote about them. Each day we read a book or watched a video and students filled out a fact sheet on spiders. Today we put all of the sheets together and made spider books. Ask your students something they learned about spiders? Be on the look out for the spider books on Monday, we will be sending them home. Next, week we will start talking about letters, words, and sentences, and how we use letters to make words, and words to make sentences. Writing is not a favorite for a lot of students, and especially now as we are making them try and sound out what they want to write on their own. Please encourage your students to try sounding out words to write at home. It can be about anything that they enjoy, just want them to be practicing. The more they do it, the better they will get, and hopefully the more they will like it. 

In science this week we visited the science lab and the students had a lot of fun learning about different types of motion. In class we experimented with pumpkins. Students got to measure the length, and width of their groups pumpkin. They counted how many lines was on their pumpkin. We opened them up and they had to count how many seeds they pulled out (this was not a favorite for some, but I was so proud of them for doing it). We even filled a large tub with water and asked the students if they thought the pumpkin would sink or float. They were all shocked when it didn't sink!

• 11/02: Garden Clean Up (8:00 am- 12:00 pm)
• 11/05: NO SCHOOL Election Day
• 11/07: Chic-fil-A Night (5:00-8:00 pm)
• 11/12: Papa John's Pizza Night
• 11/15: FBI Breakfast (7:00-7:45 am)
• 11/19: Thanksgiving Lunch (11:20-11:50 am) Parents are welcome to come enjoy lunch in cafeteria with their students. If you can come please arrive a few minutes early if you want to purchase a lunch for $4. 
• 11/25-29: Thanksgiving Break! Don't forget to participate in the reading challenge.

10/21-25/19

This week we will be reading Pumpkin soup and focusing on working together and cooperating. 

This week in reading we will continue to work on characters, settings, problem, and solution. We will also start working on beginning, middle, and end. 

We are continuing to work on counting and now we are going to start comparing numbers. We will start looking at different ways to represent numbers, with tallies, numbers, graphs, etc. We will compare which sets have more or less. 

In writing we are going to start working more on sounding out words and writing the sounds we hear. We will start with CVC words and work our way up. 

RED RIBBON WEEK

• 10/21: students receive stickers and pencils
• 10/22: Hat Day
• 10/23: Wear Red
• 10/24: Mismatched clothes
• 10/24: Author visit (order forms due no later than Thurs. morning)
• 10/25: Favorite Team
• 10/25: FBI Breakfast (7:00am)
• 10/25: Boovie Night (6:00pm)
• 10/26: Trunk or Treat, Sprayberry High School
• 10/31: Halloween (please no costumes, we will be doing a fun pumpkin experiment, and other fun activities)
• If you can donate a small pumpkin it would be appreciated (need 4 small pumpkins)
• Also looking for a donation of candy corn (2 bags)
• If anyone would like to send cookies for class treat that would be great! We have 23 students. 

09/30-10/04/19

Our book of the week last week was Room on the Broom. We read this book because, one I love the month of October and Halloween, and two I wanted to incorporate motion and gravity for our upcoming STEM day. 

In reading we continued to work on the different parts of the book, author, illustrator, title, characters, and setting. We also started to work on problems and solutions of books. They were able to identify the problem (there were a few) and solutions in Room on the Broom. We will continue to work on this with other books. We also have introduce different types of print, story books (fiction/nonfiction or True/not true), and poems. Students were able to identify the different types of print and identify the similarities and differences. We also worked on a coloring page that they had to color based on what the poem said, it gave clues and showed how students were able to use their listening to decipher what needed to be colored. 

In math last week we continued to work on shapes both 2D and 3D. Students were able to identify what shapes were 2D or 3D and talk about their different attributes. We will continue to work on shapes next week. We will also continue working on counting and identifying if a group is more or less. 

In writing this week we worked on writing the letter O and our sight words. Students also completed a writing sample where they drew a picture of their favorite thing they did over September break and had to try and write what it was. Some students struggled with sounding out words so we worked on it over the week. Most students seem to know their letter sounds but need to work on blending sounds to make words. This is something we will work on more next week and in the future. 

We had our second STEM day on Friday. It was a huge success and students loved it! Throughout the week we worked on vocabulary, motion, gravity, 3D shapes. We also watched videos on motion and gravity to get a better understanding and when they found out on Thursday we were making roller coasters we watched an informational video on roller coasters. Students were actively engaged in each lesson, and when it came time to brainstorm on what they would like for their roller coaster to look like, and how they would make it they created some great work. On Friday I was So Impressed with what they were able to create! We have a very creative group this year and I look forward to seeing what they do in the future. 

Oct. 8: Papa John's Night

Oct. 9: (7:15am) Walk to School Wednesday

Oct. 10: (12:30pm) Early Release

Oct. 11: Spirit Wear Day

Oct. 14-18: (12:30pm) Early Release/Conference Week/Book Fair

Oct. 21-25: Red Ribbon Week (Tues. wear hat, Wed. wear Red, Thurs. mis-match clothes, Fri. Addison shirt)

Oct. 25: FBI Breakfast

Oct. 25: Boovie Night at Addison

Oct. 26: Trunk or Treat at Sprayberry