Hello KA Families,
Last week’s field trip was the perfect culminating activity for our pumpkin life cycle study! Plus, we had a beautiful day to enjoy the farm. Thank you to our many parent volunteers; we couldn’t have gone without you! This week, we will continue our study of pumpkins- we will be investigating our class pumpkin through measurement, estimation, and even a float/sink experiment. At the end, we will cut the pumpkin open and count how many seeds are inside. This is always an annual favorite in KA!
In reading, we will review letters Ss and Pp, and all of our sight words “a”, “like”, “am”, “we”, “the”, “I”, “can”, and “see”. You can help support your student in their learning by talking about letter sounds and sight words as you read together. In math, we are working on recognizing and writing numbers, as well as counting one-to-one. This means we touch each object as we count, or mark each item with our pencil, to get an accurate count. In religion we are focusing on God’s creation of people, and all the wonderful people God put in our lives.
Reminders:
- Library books are due back each Thursday.
- Please be sure your child comes to school with a weather-appropriate jacket or coat. With the chilly mornings, and wet weather returning soon, a sweatshirt is not enough to keep them warm and dry outside at recess.
Coming up:
- Friday Oct. 26- SMM carnival, 6:00-9:00 pm
- Tuesday Oct. 30- Peace Day (students may wear a SMM peace shirt OR regular uniform)
- Wednesday Oct. 31- Halloween: Kindergarten students may wear their Halloween costume to school. Please make sure your child can “do school” independently in their costume (i.e. run at recess and PE, use the restroom, etc.) School policy states: no masks or items covering eyes/face, no weapons or play weapons, no clowns. Dressing up is optional. Students are encouraged to also dress up for All Saints Day, if they dress up for Halloween. We will be having a class Halloween party from about 10:40-11:40 including Halloween cookie decorating, bingo, and crafts. We could use 2 additional volunteers for this party, please let me know if you would like to help! (Volunteer clearance/Virtus class required.)
- Thursday Nov. 1- All Saints Day. Students may dress as their favorite saint. Need ideas? There are lots of easy and simple saint costume ideas on Pinterest, or check out these for inspiration:
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please let me know!
Mrs. Katie White
Kindergarten Teacher
