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Our pink "Pigkin" won second place in the pumpkin decorating contest!! Wooohooooo!!!

Friday!

Our 'Pigkin" for the Pumpkin Decorating Contest

Mr. Brad Came to read.

Star Student Saylie
Favorite Color: pink
Would Like to Travel to: Hawaii
Loves: Her mom and her Brad
Future Occupation: a spy
Favorite Thing About Herself: Her heart is big. :-)
Favorite Ting to Do: read stories to Biscuit
Is Special Because: She's the only one in her class that has Biscuit.
Favorite Book: How Full is Your Bucket?
Birthday: September 15

Mrs. Dorothy came to share The Big Pumpkin and the song that goes along with it.
The children loved making the voices in the book.

Hat Day!

Aren't we spiffy?

The "Time Warp" is our new favorite dance.

Skittles math.

"This is fun!" said Sharp.

Red Ribbon Week Kick-Off!

Don't we look fabulous in our red?

Blowing Bubbles to kick-off Red Ribbon Week!

(Jack was having bubble issues.)

Saylie Parker's Mom Came to Read!

Fiddlin' Rooster Farm

Cow Cars were a real hit!
We used the butter we made on little corn muffins.

Whoosh!

Waiting to go in.

Making butter took a long time!

Cow Cars again.

We picked the seeds out of cotton and then used the cotton to make "living necklaces".

We ALL tried our faces in here. :-)

Aren't we cute?

Notice the flying corn in the background.

"Corn Angels"

Whoosh!

Star Student Jack!

Favorite Color: Camouflage

Loves: His dad and his mom

Future Occupation: an FBI Agent

Would Like To Travel To: Gettysburg

Is Special Because: He is nice to his friends

Birthday: March 4

Favorite Book: Goodnight Warrior

Favorite Thing To Do: Play With His Friends

Favorite Thing About Himself: He likes to build stuff.

Acting out The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid of Anything

Hooray! No Rain!!

A Peek At This Week

We've had a nice short week learning all about pumpkins. In Language we worked on the letters Ii and Ww and the sounds they make. We began segmenting words which is new and a little challenging. For example, I say "score" then the children take off the 's' and say the word "core". With practice we will be good at it! In Math we completed Chapter 7, "Numbers 10-20". We also made fun Halloween windsocks and fun messy free painting with sparkly Halloween colors.

The children were disappointed that our field trip had to be rescheduled but we are all looking forward to going to the farm on Tuesday. Your child will need to wear any OUS shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes. Please send a sack lunch with an extra drink as poking around the pumpkin patch makes one thirsty.

Thanks!!

Thanks to Sharp's mom, Roane for our pumpkin and the cooking show items for this week. Thanks to Jack's mom, Bridget for story and snack on Thursday. The children enjoyed the scones!

Looking Ahead

Next week our unit will be Bats. Our letters will be Uu and Ll and our new sight words will be if, run, & jump. In Math we will begin Chapter 6, "Shapes and Parts of Shapes". On Monday afternoon, Miss Sarah and I will be attending a Six Traits of Writing workshop. We will be back in time for dismissal. On Friday, we will dismiss at 12:45. The afternoon is set aside for parent-teacher conferences. I have made a tentative schedule of times, please let me know if your time does not work.

1:00 Anna

1:20 Emory

1:40 Will

2:00 Sharp

2:20 Lyla

2:40 Jackson

3:00 Saylie

3:20 Jack

3:40 Mary

4:00 Chance

Heads Up

We have begun practicing our song for the upcoming Thanksgiving Play, "The Turkeys Go On Strike" where we have the title role. Your child will need to wear a brown outfit. We will make turkey hats in class to go with the outfit.

Have a great weekend and thanks for all that you do! I am looking forward to meeting with everyone on Friday. :-)

Spiders!

Check out these yummy spiders! By the end of Friday our numbers were a little low but we made the best of it. Thanks to everyone who sent items for our cooking show. The children look forward to creating fun edible things.

We had a great week learning about spiders, skeletons, and Columbus. Next week our unit will be Pumpkins and we will travel to the Fiddlin' Rooster Farm in Water Valley. There will be no school on Monday.

Miss Tis Came To Read To Us!

We were excited to learn that The Itsy Bitsy Spider has many more verses. Miss Tis came to our room today and read us the entire song. We love when Miss Tis reads to us. :)

What a Great Day!

After our first Friday assembly in two weeks, we headed upstairs to our room. We completed our weekly language assessment and made some neat Indian corn for the upstairs bulletin board. Then Mary's mom came and helped us decorate yummy chocolate cupcakes for Halloween.

Next we had a visit from the Oxford Fire Department. We got to see their truck and lots of tools, including the Jaws of Life. As they were finishing up our presentation, they received a real alarm call and rushed away to assist with a car wreck.

The children were so very excited to see them in action!

Next we moved back to the classroom for a talk with the Fire Department's Fire Safety Educator. He reinforced all of the information the children learned this week. Then he and Emory had a race to see who could get into their gear faster.

After lunch, Mary's dad came to read us a story. How sweet is the look on her face?

Meet Star Student Mary!

Birthday: September 12

Future Occupation: A Veterinarian

Would Like to Travel to: New York City

Loves: Her mom and her dad

Favorite Book: Alice in Wonderland
Favorite Thing About Herself: She likes frogs a lot.

Is Special Because: Everybody likes her.

Favorite Thing to Do: Play with her dog

Lastly we made edible fire trucks.

It was a very busy day!