We will be eating lunch there as well so your child needs to BRING A LUNCH that day. Please make sure your child is dressed appropriate, we will be outside most of the morning.
I will confirm who are chaperones are on Monday.
Halloween at Carpenter
Because of our diverse cultural and religious beliefs, we generally do not "celebrate" Halloween at Carpenter. As we have our field trip on Halloween, we will not be able to wear costumes to school that day. Thank you for your cooperation.
On Wednesday, I will be sending home a Carpenter Cougar T-Shirt for your child. This is sponsored by the PTO and is a shirt your child may keep and wear on Fridays to school for Spirit Days. I also suggest your child wear this T-Shirt on Field Trip days, so please have your child wear it to school this Thursday.
Here are a few things we have been up to lately:
Math Work Stations: Sorting & building the names in our classroom by the number of letters
Literacy Work Stations: Listening Station
At this station, students listen to a book on CD: here it is Pete the Cat! Then students can do various activities related to the story. These two kiddos put the story cards in order and used them to re-tell the story!
Literacy Work Stations: Dramatic Play
We have a new birthday station! Students can pretend it is someones birthday and have cake, sing/read happy birthday, make a happy birthday card, & build birthday words with magnetic letters.
We have been visiting the school computer lab! Here students are using the ABCYA Kindergarten activities. Click here to play at home!
Social Studies: We are continuing to learn how to interact positively with others and to solve problems constructively. We have been learning to use "fix it' words when we say or do something hurtful to others. This has worked really well so far. If any issues arise, I am encouraging students to ask for "fix it" words from others and to say them in order to help solve a problem.
The idea of "You break it, you fix it" comes from Responsive Classroom. Here are a few resources to read to learn more about it:
Literacy Work Stations: Sorting words by the number of syllables
Something to keep in mind...
What your child eats throughout the school day can have an impact on their attention, behavior, and ability to focus & stay on track. For snack, I highly encourage fresh fruits and vegetables in order to support these issues and to encourage healthy eating habits.
Take a look at this:
Pre-packaged & prepared fruits are different from fresh fruit.
This "fruit" cup as 26 grams of sugar - YIKES! This is added and unnatural. Small details like this can have a large impact on your child's health.
Click here for a short article on this topic.
In small group math time during Math Work Stations, we have been putting numbers 0-10 in order, number scrolling, & building numbers with ten frames. Here students built 2 numbers and then compared them. We used the language __ is more than __. Take a listen!
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