Fire Station Thursday!

On Thursday, we will be heading to Pittsfield Fire and Police Station for our next field trip!  Please return the blue permission slip for the trip.  We are in need of a few chaperones, so please indicate that on the permission slip if you are interested.  As we have limited seating on the bus, I will give priority to chaperones on a first-come, first-serve basis.  There is no cost for this trip.  Thank you!

Visit http://www.sparky.org/ with your child at home this week!

Here are some photos from the Apple Orchard:

When we got back to school, we measured how tall our pumpkins were with unifix cubes and recorded it in our math journal.

Then we compared the size of our pumpkins.

We put all of our pumpkins in order from largest to smallest.

On Friday, we learned how to make apple sauce!  It was tasty.

We used words like first, next, then, and last.

Cooking and baking are a great way to introduce order and sequencing for Kindergarten students.

Reading recipes together show your child that reading and writing have important and useful purposes in life.

Here are some pictures of us tasting the apple sauce during snack:

This Thursday, we will also have our next Carpenter Reads Book Distribution.  Every child in the school will get to choose and take home a new book to keep in your home library!  To get students excited about reading at home, you can fill out this owl to send back to school:

Put your child's name and the title of the book you read at home together.  We will display the owls on a tree in the gym hallway.

For your education:
10 Things You Can Do to Raise a Reader
Simple Yet Powerful Things to Do While Reading Aloud