Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We had a great two weeks learning all about Thanksgiving. We learned about the Native Americans and Pilgrims and how they celebrated the first Thanksgiving, and of course, we had a Thanksgiving feast of our own.  Thanks to everyone that provided food items for the feast and the moms that volunteered.

We also learned about turkey's and the students made their own turkey recipe's.  I hope you enjoyed their recipe books, I know I did!!! 

 

 

Thanks to Drayden's mom for teaching the afternoon class this cute song.

 

 

Next week we will be learning about bears, the letter H and the number 7. 

 

I do want to let you know that Miss Jen will be out for the next week or two.  She was taken in today (Monday) for an unexpected surgery.  It went well, but she will be recovering for a while.  If any of you have volunteer days to make up, or just want to come in and volunteer, this would be a great two weeks to do it. 

 

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

The Farmer in the Dell!

We had such a great week learning all about farming & harvesting.  We started the week learning about scarecrows and why farmers use them.  Next, we talked about farms and what animals we might find on a farm then we made a fun animal farm craft.  Lastly we learned about what crops might grow on a farm.  It was great being able to talk about our field trip to Black Island Farms and put our learning into real life. 

I think the highlight of the week was definitely our gumball necklaces.  Our letter of the week was G and it just seemed like the kids would love it...well they did.  They were asking all week why Miss Jen and I were poking holes in gumballs and I kept telling them they would have to wait until Thursday to find out.  I think that quite a few of them thought they might actually die if they didn't find out sooner.  I am happy to say that they did not in fact die, so that was a relief.

I can't believe I am saying this, but next week we will begin talking about Thanksgiving, yes I said it, Thanksgiving.  It should be a super fun week.  If you have not signed up to bring a food item for our Thanksgiving feast, and you would like to, the sign up is on the front desk. 

See you all on Monday!!!

Happy Halloween!

Wow, I can't believe Halloween was just last week.  It feels like it was forever ago.  We had so much fun celebrating and I am sad to see it pass. 

I do hope none of your children have suffered a "Candy Coma" over the weekend.  Thanks to the "Switch Witch" we have suffered no "Candy Coma's" at the Brown house.  I am sure you all know the "Switch Witch" she is the NICE witch that lives on the dark side of the moon.  She travels around for five days after Halloween collecting candy to feed to her cat, he LOVES candy.  Anyway, my children decided how much of their Halloween candy they wanted to leave out for her and she switched it for money (I have heard that she leaves some children toys).  She definitely saved us from a few tummy aches.

The students and teachers had so much fun starting our week at Black Island Farms.  I hope you parents enjoyed it as well.  We were so lucky to have such great weather-thanks mother nature. 

Our Halloween party was a big hit, I would like to thank all of the parents that were able to help out in class on that day.  I could not have done it without you!  I would also like to thank all of the parents that donated items for our Candy Corn Cookies.  I hope your families enjoyed them, we certainly had a great time making them. 

We have a lot in store for next week, we will be talking more about farms including scarecrows and harvest time.  We will also cover the letter G. 

November Calendar

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
10/28   Weekly Themes      Halloween	10/29 Field Trip 11AM Black Island Farms	10/30   Happy Birthday Felicity S. (29)	10/31 Halloween Carnival	1	2	3
4   Weekly Themes      Letter G    Farm      Fall Harvest    Scarecrows	5   Happy Birthday J.C. (4)	6	7	8	9	10
11   Weekly Themes       Thanksgiving    Turkeys	12	13	14	15	16	17
18   Weekly Themes         Thanksgiving	19 Book Orders Due *last before Christmas	20 Thanksgiving Feast *sign up in Lobby	21 No School Thanksgiving Break	22 No School Thanksgiving Break	23 No School Thanksgiving Break	24
25   Weekly Themes      Letter H    Bears	26	27 Happy Birthday Carson (27)	28	29 Bring your favorite Teddy Bear to School	30

Bats and Ghosts and Spiders, Oh My!!!

What a fun week we had gearing up for Halloween. 

We spent the week studying spiders, ghosts and bats.  We learned that spiders have 8 legs and sometimes they even have 8 eyes.  We also made a really cute spider craft.  The favorite story of the week was definitely "The Chocolate Chip Ghost".  And we loved learning that bats are nocturnal (thanks to Ethan for announcing that to the class before I could even get the words out).  Seriously, your children are so smart, I am amazed every day!!!

I think the low of the week was the weather, while we loved changing our weather wheel and choosing the winter clothes during morning circle, we did not like not being able to go outside.  Luckily, your children loved the alternative.  We had a great time using our rhythm sticks to get a little exercise and loved our first aerobics class.  We were definitely all tired after that class.  Miss Amy (her classroom is next to mine) tells me I might just be the loudest aerobics teacher ever, but hey, we had a great time.

Next week will be a little out of the ordinary, but should be a ton of fun.  We will start the week at Black Island Farms for our field trip (finally, it's here, this should save us all from having to hear about it multiple times a day).  Don't forget we will meet at the farm at 11:00 AM.  Tuesday we will have the school to ourselves (all of the other classes will be at Black Island Farms).  Wednesday is our much awaited Halloween Party.  Don't forget to send your child in their costume, you too if you are planning on staying for the party.  I spent the weekend looking for just the perfect costume, and I am proud to say I found it!  Thursday we will be having a pretty laid back day, all of the other classes will be having their Halloween party which will make it impossible for my class to concentrate on much of anything.  Due to this we will be making some crafts and watching a Halloween movie.  All of this combined should make for quite a memorable and exciting week.  So, here we go!!!

Pumpkins, Pumpkins Everywhere!!!

We had a great, though short, week studying pumpkins!  I think the children will agree, the highlight of the week was definitely our science lesson.  We observed a whole pumpkin then cut our pumpkin in half (to be honest I pretended to summon my super human strength and karate chop it in half...the kids thought I was amazing) and then used magnifying glasses to observe and then illustrated what we saw. 

We also had a great time making our letter E elephant masks.  They fit perfectly in our elephant classroom.

I hope you all have a great fall break, I know I will.  I will be in Brigham City helping my little sister deliver her son Jaxyn.  Yeah, I love baby's!

Fire Safety Week

This week was fire safety week.  We held two fire drills during class, and I must say the first one was a little rough, but by the second we were all experts on how to get out of school safely if there is a fire.  Your children received an assignment to help your family make a fire plan to use if there is ever a fire at home.  I hope you will all help your children complete this very important assignment. 

My afternoon class was very lucky to have Cason's dad Josh visit, he is a fire fighter for HAFB.  He was able to help the children understand even more about fire safety.  I want to thank him again for taking time out of his busy schedule to visit our class, I know the children were thankful as well...especially for their new hats and water bottles!!! 

We learned about the letter D and the number 3 this week.  I know you must all be wondering why we are spending so much time on the numbers 1-10, the reason is simple, all other numbers are just a combination of these smaller numbers and if your child can recognize AND write these numbers they will be WELL on their way to recognizing and writing all other numbers.  We counted to 30 this week and the children did quite will with it.  I am very proud of all of their hard work!

Next week we will be working on the letter E and the number 4, and learn all about pumpkins. 

Please remember there is NO SCHOOL on October 18th and 19th for Fall Break.