Sunny Thursday!

College Go Week
Next week Creekside is celebrating College GO week!   In your child's folder today you will find a flyer with more details.  I will be taking lots of pictures next week of the children who participate (especially Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!) so be sure to remember to have your child participate!
Monday: College Colors Day
Tuesday: Career Glam Day
Wednesday: Gearing Up For Graduation Day
Thursday: College Fight Song Day
Friday: School Spirit Day
Drawing Contest papers will go home Monday, and are due Thursday to Mrs. Vidal.

Caterpillar Exploration
Yesterday Timothy brought in 2 caterpillars!  We observed them, watched a video about the butterfly life cycle, and drew/labeled the life cycle in our writing notebooks.  Thanks Timothy!

NWEA Testing

Our class is now finished going to the computer lab for fall testing.  I still have a few kiddos that have to finish the math portion of the test, but Dr. Heiden will begin pulling those children to the computer lab probably sometime next week.  So we can now get back to our regular daily schedule!

Zoo Field Trip

Yesterday in your child's folder you should have found a bright pink permission slip for our field trip to the Indianapolis Zoo coming up on Friday, October 9.  You can read more details on the permission slip itself, but I did want to be sure to invite any parents or grandparents who would like to chaperone to be sure to indicate that on the paper.  We need as many chaperones as we can get for the trip.  Please be sure that you also come to Creekside to get a background check sometime before the week of the field trip.  Thanks so much for your help!  It will be a fun day!

Superkids

Yesterday in Superkids we met a new Superkid...ALF!  Alf's name is short for Alfalfa.  The class thought that name was very funny!  Here are some questions to prompt discussion at home:

Who is the Superkid? ALF

What does he like to do? go on adventures

What letter is at the beginning of Alf? A

What sound does A make? /a/ like in apple--right now we are only doing the short vowel sound!

Math

This week in math we have been working on:

• finding patterns
• playing the Spin A Number Game
• describing shapes
• counting spaces on a gameboard
• recognizing numbers 0-10

Superkids Test

We completed our first Progress Test for Superkids in the computer lab yesterday.  Overall....we did....OK.  I'm sending the results home today. The first section of the test was very difficult for the students to understand what to do!  They had the first picture, and they had to pick another picture that started with the same sound.  Most of the class that didn't do well on this section picked the rhyming word instead of matching the beginning sound.  We will keep working on this!  So if your child didn't do so well on this section, I don't think it's because they don't know beginning sounds, they just got confused on what to do.  So for now, look at the 2nd and 3rd section to see how your child is doing in reading.  If you have any questions, please let me know!

VIsion Screening

Thanks to everyone who has sent in the vision screening permission slip for October 7th so far.  Keep them coming!

Specials Schedule

Monday--Library

Tuesday--PE

Wednesday--Computer Lab

Thursday--Art

Friday--Music

Have a great day!!