Halloween week was so much fun here in Kindergarten! We played pumpkin bingo, read spooky stories, and ended October with a fantastic Halloween party. Thank you so much to all the parent volunteers for making the day such a treat!

 

Amrita's mom came in this week and did a fun fall project with the kids. She brought in leaves and

twigs for the class to paint. 

In science this week, we began a unit on speed and direction. Our first activity was to see what would happen when we tried to kick a ball to a line that was close to us, as well as a line that was far away.

Our next experiment was to see what would happen when we rolled a red ball at a group of three others that were close together. We discovered that if we rolled the ball quickly they
would spread out. When we rolled it slowly the balls hardly moved at all. The kids figured out that if something is moving faster it has more force! We are enjoying getting to be scientists in our classroom.

 


Mason's mom came in as our mystery reader and read "Courage" by Bernard Waber and a Curious George book "A Haunted Halloween".
















Indie's Grandparents also came in as mystery readers and read "Room on a Broom" by Julia Donaldson.





We hope everyone has a wonderful Halloween weekend!

Be safe and have fun,

Ms. Ardito

Hi Families,

Next week on Friday, Oct. 30th we will be celebrating Halloween at school. At 8:45 that morning there will be a short program in the gym. The K-5 classes will be performing songs/skits they have practiced with our drama teacher Ms. Andrews. Parents are welcome to attend! Our classroom party will begin at 12:30 pm.

Children are welcome to wear their costumes to school. We strongly encourage bringing a change of clothes in case your student gets hot or uncomfortable during the day. We have a no weapon policy and masks must be able to be seen out of. Kids are allowed to bring props that may accompany their costume. We are looking forward to celebrating!

Lunch time update: 
We've added a few minutes to our lunch period to ensure the kids have enough time to eat. We are pretty confident that the extra time, along with reminders for the kids that eating needs to happen along with talking, will do the trick. 

We have been having many social emotional conversations as a class. This week we have been talking a lot about tattling. We began using a new phrase with the kids: "Are you in or out?" This is something we ask when a child comes up to tell on another student. It allows children to reflect on the purpose of their tattling-getting someone "into" trouble or "out" of danger. We have discussed with the kids how important it is to try and work it out together before involving a teacher and the importance of involving a teacher if there is any kind of danger. 


On Tuesday, Amrita's mom came in as our Mystery Reader this week and read "Life Doesn't Frighten Me" by Maya Angelou and Puppy is Lost by Harriet Ziefert. 

As a class we read the story "Spookley the Square Pumpkin" and then created our own unique pumpkins!


We also created our own halloween witches. They are hanging in the hallway. Come take a look! 

















Lila's family came in for her Super Kid Day and shared halloween cookies with the class and read "The Pout Pout Fish in the Big Big Dark" by Deborah Diesen.










Ms. Woltmann showed us a fun phonics song this week that teaches the sounds each letter makes. We had so much fun listening and singing to it. Check it out at home with your child!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36IBDpTRVNE


Our week ended with an amazing event! We carved a pumpkin as a class, and when we pulled the top off...there was candy inside! How did it get there?! It was a magical mystery :) Each child was able to pick out one piece of candy to enjoy. It was so very exciting!

Have a wonderful and magical weekend,

Ms. Ardito

Is there anything better than a Pumpkin?

The kindergarteners have been busy in art. They recently completed their hand tracing project which involves overlapping and intersecting lines and shapes and some amazing color blending. Look how beautiful these are!

Yesterday we looked at some pictures of pumpkin patches and the students started their "pumpkins in a field" paintings by blending red and yellow paint to making many orange circles on their papers. They had to decide whether to include a horizon line or not and next week they will add more colors and details using oil pastels. 

Some of them also had time to do some pretty spooky jack-o-lantern paintings.