October 18th, 2018

It's Thursday Already?! 

Today was an exciting day!

During morning meeting we had our lock-down drill. We were very quiet except for a couple friends who initially screamed when getting into our places... I explained why it is very important to take this seriously so that we understand what to do in the event there was a problem. The students who were quiet and did not talk during the drill received stickers for their awesome performance during the drill.

During language we learned the song for Kk. Kk is VERY confusing with Cc because they both make the same sound!! When we were brainstorming words that begin with the letter Kk, I think that we came up with a whole new list of words for Cc as well! They had their thinking caps on today! We wrote in our phonics journals and practiced our letters.

Math was AWESOME! Ms. Gray brought in candy to use as manipulatives. First we sorted the candy into groups of the different types of candy. After this we learned about patterns. We practiced all different types of patterns. We "labeled" each candy a different letter (example: ABCD)... Once we did that we started making a pattern as a class. We learned that the CORE of the pattern is the part that repeats over and over. After we learned about patterns and how to use the candy to make the patterns we separated into different groups and worked with our team to create the pattern that Ms. Gray would write on the board. We had so much fun and Ms. Gray only heard 5,000,000 times "Can we take the candy home?" (I was planning on letting them take some home but I said "If I hear one more person ask, then we won't be able to take any home!"... Safe to say, no one brought candy home... We will try again tomorrow! ;) )





During UOI we reviewed which food comes from a plant and which food comes from an animal. Even though we have been working on this for a long time, I still have friends who are mixing this up! We are going to do our Pumpkin Investigation tomorrow! This is where we make an estimate of how many seeds are inside the pumpkin then we open the pumpkin and take all the stuff out and then count the seeds! I am very excited about this! I hope all my friends are ready to get a little dirty tomorrow!

REMINDERS:

• Spelling test end of next week
• Music test beginning of next week
• Picture Day October 25th!