Ms. Gay brings the Pre-K children through on Friday!

Parading through in costume!

Dressed like his share item, fun!

Simple addition problems to 10!

Learning to represent the teen numbers.
Ghost ten frames with teen numbers. 

Creating a jack o'lantern with shapes!
Kindergarten Goal: I can name 2D shapes.

My jack o'lantern is FUNNY!

My jack o'lantern is SCARY!

Studying trees in science!

The Trees Module explores trees in and around the classroom and school site. Using real and representational materials, students observe tree parts, investigate leaves and learn about how trees are helpful to animals and humans.

Learning about the parts of a fruit tree!

Labeling the parts of an evergreen tree!

Our tree walk on Thursday:         

Mr. Emer an Arborist from Top Branch Tree Service LLC. volunteers to educate the children about trees!
He and his two brothers came for the morning to help guide all the kindergarten children on a tree walk!
He was so knowledgeable and could answer any questions the children (and adults) had.  :)
Mrs. Paul also volunteered to help with the walking field trip, thank you!

Pausing at our apple tree out front!

Learning about the root system of a willow tree!
Charlene Vaughn also helped with the tree walk, thank you Charlene!

Teaching about the roots, trunk, bark, branches and leaves of two trees growing close together.

Mr. Elmer shares with the children tree cookies and explain why they call them tree cookies. He explains what kind of tree they were cut from. He brought one for each child to bring home. Some children received soft wood and some hard wood. I hope your child shared some of what they learned on our tree walk with Mr. Elmer.

Thank you TOP BRANCH TREE SERVICE!

Math Club!

Once a month kindergarten goes up to Math Lab for some fun learning with Mrs. Butterworth. This past Tuesday we had our first visit there! The focus was patterning. Special thanks to Linda Paul for volunteering!

Mrs. Butterworth warms us up with a couple Halloween math patterns.

Bat, spider, jack o'lantern pattern (ABC)

blue, orange (AB) stacker pattern

patterns on the SMART Board

bat, jack o'lantern, spider (ABC)

recording a stacker pattern: orange, blue (AB)

playing a game with a die to build a pattern with Halloween erasers

Celebrating birthdays at school is fun! The birthday child is the leader of the day. He or she receives a crown, a giant sticker, a pencil, a bracelet and a birthday card. He or she selects a book of choice to take home to read. We sing a couple songs to them and then they move their cupcake on our age graph. At writing workshop each student in the class creates a page for the birthday child which we staple into a book to go home to share.

Zoologist

a Doctor

Volcanologist

Geologist                Volcanologist
          study                  Engineer                  

an Architect

sequencing

ABC center task at choice time 

choosing the science table at choice time

math/handwriting: practicing the correct formation of the number three 

enjoying the Tonka trucks donations at recess
Thank you for the donations!

an ice cream truck with trailor: illustrating at the easel during choice time

Fire Safety

 Learning about fire safety:

Our visit 

to the 

Cape Elizabeth 

Fire 

Station!

He puts on his gear for us.

Lieutenant Cantara explains the tools on the ladder truck.

An opportunity to steer the ladder truck!

Maybe a future firefighter?

Mr. Mullen explains the features of the pumper truck.

Feeling what it would be like to hold a hose and nozzle!
Thank you Mr. Mullen for being so good with the children!

Learning about rescue.

Learning about the tools sometimes used on the ambulance.

What a fun trip! Thank you to the crew at the station and to Heidi Shephard for volunteering!

sequencing and reviewing the numbers 1-10

Thank you Chief Gleeson for the visit and the great fire hats!

Scholastic News: fire safety