Pumpkin TIme!

What a fun week it's been! Old Baker Farm was a blast! The kids had so much fun riding on the hayride and picking pumpkins from a real pumpkin patch. We also picked cotton, pet lots of farm animals, ran through a maze of hay, and had lunch in the loft of an old barn! Thanks to all of the moms who joined us too!

On Tuesday, we visited the pumpkin patch at Asbury. We listened to a story, got cool pumpkin tattoos, and got to choose another pumpkin. We're saving those to decorate during our Harvest Hoedown next week! The pumpkins purchased from our church go towards missions for the youth. If your family doesn't have a great pumpkin to carve yet, they have lots of pretty ones to choose from!

Jackson Bradley was our Star Student this week. We loved learning more about him from his great poster and from the show and tell that he brought to share with us. We also celebrated Leyton's birthday this week. We enjoyed a special treat of pizza and cupcakes on Wednesday to celebrate!

We wrote about pumpkins this week and made some funky witches too. We learned how to play new math games this week called "Path games." This is basically any board game where the players take turns rolling a die and moving along the path with their marker. It is a great counting game and teaches one to one correspondence. Any game such as Candy Land or Chutes and Ladders is great for reinforcing these skills. We continue to work on properly forming letters as well as sounding out words phonetically with inventive spelling. The homework pages that will occasionally come home will be for practice and reinforcement of these skills. There is no grade attached to this homework- just good practice! I have also worked with small groups this week specifically on initial sounds, ending sounds, rhyming words, and word families.

***I am going to do some fun M&M and Candy Corn math next week. If anyone would like to send in a bag of the harvest colored M&M's or a bag of the harvest mix Candy Corns, please email me and let me know!***

Don't forget... Open House/ Spaghetti Supper next Tuesday evening, October 26 at 5:00! Please plan to join us and take a look around our classroom to see all of the hard work your children have been doing!

Harvest Hoedown next Friday , October 29 from 11:00-1:00. Parents are welcome to come. Children dress in your cowboy/ cowgirl attire! No need to send a lunch on this day.

Have a great weekend!