Happy Friday!

Picture Day
School picture day is Thursday, September 24.  There was an order form in your child's folder yesterday.  You can either hold onto this until the 24th, or fill it out, send it in, and I will save it for your child to give to the photographer.  I believe there is also an option of ordering online.   If you do order online, please print something and send it in, so I know to tell the photographer that day.

Open Library
Open library is Wednesday and Friday at 12:50-1:20.  If your child is absent on Monday when we have library, or we miss a Monday of school like this week, you can send books in if your child wants to return them for new books.  You don't have to do this, only if you want to.  Several of the boys and girls did change books this week since we missed library Monday with no school.

Bucketfilling Party--20 fuzzies!
Wednesday we filled our bucket!  We have a class bucket with 20 fuzzies (cotton balls).  When we get a 5 in specials, everyone in the class is on green or higher at  the end of the day, or we get a compliment from another teacher, we get a fuzzy in the bucket.  When we fill the bucket, we have a party!  Wednesday we celebrated with having a special snack, and watching a Sid the Science kid video.  I don't think I've EVER had a class fill the bucket so quickly!! 20 fuzzies in just 24 days of school!  That is awesome!  Keep up the good bucket filling behavior!!

Homework
Please don't forget to have your child write their name on top of the homework sheet!  I had trouble with a couple today, because on Fridays I pull the sheets out of folders and put them on my desk....and a couple didn't have names!  Thanks for your help with this.

Praying Mantis!

Timothy and his grandma caught a praying mantis yesterday, and he brought it to school to show us!  I will admit, bugs are NOT my favorite, but it was pretty neat looking!  We observed it, watched a video online about them, and drew pictures/labeled the praying mantis during writing time. Then at the end of the day we released it back outside in the field! It actually was a pretty cool impromptu learning experience! Even if it did sit there on my desk all day staring at me.....

Math
Here are the skills we have been working on this week in math:

• Exploring shapes in different orientations
• Representing numbers on a tens frame
• Exploring numbers in our world
• Identifying, naming, finding, and sorting shapes
• Exploring and recognizing shapes by feel
• Using and understanding spatial vocabulary

Superkids
Today in Superkids we made our own Golly's Book of Sniffs! And it really actually smells!  Make sure to check this out in your child's folder over the weekend!  Monday we will have our read a loud, Tuesday will be our non-fiction SuperSmart lesson, and Wednesday we will meet our next new character!  I wonder who it will be??  Wednesday in Computer Lab your child will be taking their first progress test for Superkids.  When I have those results recorded I will send them home!  Please look over them when they come home and let me know if you have any questions or concerns!

Specials Schedule

Monday--Library (bring library books)

Tuesday--PE (wear tennis shoes!)

Wednesday--Computers

Thursday--Art

Friday--Music

Have a great weekend!