Special Guests Today!

The Cape Community Center Pre-School
came up for a costume parade!

Pumpkin Science

predicting

                                                             

                                                               experimenting

recording 

Learning about the parts of a pumpkin!

Labeling

Recess Fun!

Our Mrs. Taylor is Maine's School Nurse of the Year! 🙌

Accepting her award Saturday!

A surprise for her when she returns to work!
Decorations inside and out from children in the school!
The beautiful banner was made by Mrs. Carroll's class!

Our class made her a poster to show how much we love her!

It is hung in her office to surprise her when she comes back to school!

Mrs. Dow's group created this one.

Mrs. Whipple's group created this one!

Above are just a sampling of what the children in Pond Cove made for her to celebrate!

Lunch in the classroom!

Thursday was our first half day.
This was the first time we have had lunch in the classroom!

Literacy Block

Working on letter sounds.

Learning Without Tears Handwriting Program

dry try - chalk

Practicing lowercase s

wet try - small sponge

pleased!

Practicing in our orange handwriting books.

 Bats!

The children created these wonderful bats in art class with Mrs. Johnston. These are hung outside our classroom for all to enjoy! Please look for them if you are in for a fall conference.

Fire Safety

We have been reading and discussing fire safety. Members of the Cape Fire Department joined Mr. Shield's gym class to supplement our discussions. We had a scheduled walking field trip to the Cape 

Fire Station friday. I hope we will be able to reschedule that. If so, I will list it in important dates. 

Scholastic News: Let's Find Out
Firefighters are Heroes

We have read several great books
to spark our discussions.

A treat from the fire department.
When the children turn in their
escape plan they will have their name
in Mr. Shield's drawing.

Writer's Workshop

The children are learning about writing informative texts.
They are practicing using letters as well as pictures to represent meaning. 
The children are developing phonemic awareness as they stretch out, 
listen to, distinguish, and record the sounds in a word.

Each of the children has a writing folder
like above that keeps their writing pieces
until the next time we write.

Hearing and Recording Sounds

Say the word out loud
write the letters for the sounds 
you hear in the word.

Practicing labeling after a great
non fiction apple read aloud.

Practicing labeling in our Lets Find Out
Scholastic News issue.
We are learning that good writers
often label when they write stories.

Kindergarten Math

Graphing: How Old Are You? 
This will be a changing graph.
When we celebrate a birthday the birthday child will
move their cupcake and tell us how the graph changed.
Some of our graphs are vertical and some are horizontal.

We have focused on the following Patterns:
AB
ABC
ABB

Complete the apple pattern.

Choice Time Fun!

art table

Q-tip painting

helping fine motor

Easel: dry erase marker creation

Practicing with science tools.

The science table is a new choice.

dominoes

Creativity with wild animals, 
colored bears & chips.

wild animals