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UPK 2

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Just uploading the letters we send home this week, as well as a picture of Teddy Tiegerman and the letter that it is inside his notebook. I have also uploaded the letter that you will receive with the poster, when your child is chosen to be the star student the following week. I am currently waiting for the photographs to be uploaded from this week, from the school's camera (the only one we are permitted to use, for your child's safety.).  

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Week of October 21st, 2019

Pumpkin week! 
This week we learned all about pumpkins - the life cycle and the parts of the pumpkin. We played a pumpkin letter game, a pumpkin shape matching game, and a same or different pumpkin game. We ended the week with an experiment - we made predictions to see if the pumpkin would sink or float. 
We read "Perfect Pumpkins", "I Like Pumpkins", "Pumpkin Town" "Pumpkin, Pumpkin", and "Picking Apples and Pumpkins" 
We learned the letter k and l this week. We pretended to do karate, fly kites and to be lions (the children were great at roaring!) 
To get ready for Grandparents/VIP day we learned songs about families, and love. We read "Llama Llama Gram and Grandpa" and made a big list of all the fun things we like to do with our grandparents. 
We did some water color painting and easel painting this week, we played with moon sand in the sensory table, and we pretended we were in a farm stand, buying and selling apples and pumpkins on the farm. We took turns to be the farmer and customers. The farm stand will be there for the next two weeks as we will be discovering farms the week after next. 
Next week we will be learning about, and doing activities related to Halloween. 
I am sending home a note about guest readers - if you would like to come in to read, please send the reply back as soon as you can. We always welcome parents to come in and read, do an activity, etc. 

Busy making apple cores and talking about the parts of an apple- core, flesh, skin and seeds. 

This week - October 14th 2019

Apples, apples and more apples this week! 
We learned about the life cycle of apples, we made an apple core and illustrated the parts of the apple (skin, core, flesh and seeds), we also taste tested three different apples and made a graph of our favorite color - the most popular was "all of them!" with twelve votes! 
We read "Apple Trouble" by R. Scamell, "Johnny Appleseed" by Jane Kurtz, and "A Day at the Apple Orchard" by M. Faulkner, and A. Krawesky. 
We sorted apples (pom poms) using large tweezers, by color, we used apple scented play dough to make numbers and matched the number on the mat to the amount of apples in the trees. We measured ourselves against apples on the wall, and did a 'roll and dot' game. 
We also wrote our names on paper apples, we cut apart our names and glued them back together - we talked about letter order, the names of the letters and how we only use a capital letters for the first letter in our names. 
 
In other activities: we decided on 4 rules for the classroom: 
Be Respectful (sit on the carpet quietly, listen to our friends)
Be Responsible (Clean up, say "I'm sorry" when we need to)
Be Safe (helping hands, walking feet)
Be Kind (Take turns, listen to each other) 
We also talked about the color of our skin, and make a classroom heart with all our skin colors in it. And we made a list of the weather - we talked about the weather we had on Wednesday - it was sunny, cloudy, rainy, and windy - all in one day!