October 30th, 2018

Awesome Tuesday!!

During inquiry into language arts we wrote in our phonics journals and we practiced our letter Uu. We also worked on a letter Uu worksheet sounding out words such as bus, jug, sun, and mug... etc. Our friends worked very hard and we had almost everyone finish all of their morning work! It was a fantastic morning! :)

During math we practiced patterns!! We used candy as our manipulatives. Ms. Gray would make a pattern with the candy and she would call on someone to finish the pattern. Once we had the pattern we would tell Ms. Gray the core of the pattern. Each time, we would repeat what the core of the pattern means... without Ms. Gray asking! After we were done working as a whole group we each went back to our seats and worked individually on our workbooks. We made all different kinds of patterns. **I will be sending some extra work home to practice patterns tomorrow.**

During UOI we did a super fun activity! Yesterday we coloured our pumpkin seeds with food colouring. Today we used our senses to talk about the pumpkin seeds. We each got to touch, smell, hear and see the seeds. Ms. Gray asked us to use describing words for how the pumpkin seeds felt, what they could see, what they could smell, and what they could hear.
Pumpkin seeds feel: smooth, soft, rough, and some feel hard.
Pumpkin seeds look: pointy, some are broken, very colourful, some look dirty, some look rotten
Pumpkin seeds smell: like rotten toes, like popcorn, and some of our friends think they smell disgusting
Pumpkin seeds sound like: my mom cooking, my mom frying, sand and water, like the ocean/waves, like small rocks, or kicking sand

Reminders:

• Tomorrow is Halloween!! Character Dress Up / Harvest Day! 
• Students are encouraged to dress up in a costume or in fall colours! Remember that costumes should not include weapons, masks, or anything too scary for school. Please ensure your child's costume is school appropriate! 
• Remember while packing lunch for your child that we have friends in other classes that may have nut allergies or our siblings may have nut allergies... any contact with nuts (smelling or touching) could cause an allergic reaction. We have lunch in a common area where other classes each before and after us. Please try your best to send foods that do not include nuts directly. We appreciate that very much! Thank you! :)
• They are required to know how to write a list (kindergarten benchmark). We will be practicing this all week!
• List Requirements:
1. title 
2. bullet points for each idea 
3. pictures