Week of Oct. 11

On Monday, we were very blessed to enjoy a visit from Christopher and Jeanette Canyon, illustrators of some wonderful children's books! In preparation for their visit, we read their book Sunshine On My Shoulders, which is an adaptation of the song written and performed by John Denver. After reading the book, we wrote our own version:

Sunshine

Sunshine on my feet makes me jump.

Sunshine on my legs makes me wiggle.

Sunshine on my hair makes me turn in circles.

Sunshine on my nose makes me sneeze.

Sunshine on my ears makes me happy.

Sunshine on my head makes me run.

Sunshine on my cheeks makes me cry.

Sunshine on my back makes me lay down.

Sunshine on my eyes makes me happy.

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me play with my cat.

Sunshine on my forehead makes me thirsty.

Sunshine on my belly makes me hungry.

Sunshine on my eyebrows makes me fly up high.

Sunshine on my fingernails makes me dance.

Sunshine on my bones makes me laugh.

Sunshine on my whole body makes me silly!

written by Mrs. Krouskop-Smith's Class

illustrated by Mrs. Zimpfer's Class

To "illustrate" (pun intended!) the fact that many authors do not illustrate their own books, but rather "send them off" to an illustrator, we "sent" our story over to Mrs. Zimpfer's class to have it illustrated - we think they did a wonderful job!

This week in Language Arts, our new focus letter is Ss. We have met Sammy Seal. Our new popcorn word is like. Please allow your child to find popcorn words (I, can, we, the, like) and letters during your Family Reading time!

We are reading a non-fiction book about Pumpkins this week. Ask your child to tell you what is special about this book (what's on the back of the book?)

In Math, we will make Halloween Color Pattern Headbands, we will make up addition and subtraction Halloween story problems, and we'll estimate, measure, and graph both the circumference and the weight of a real pumpkin!

In Science, we will use that pumpkin to investigate the characteristics of the inside of a pumpkin as we carve it! We have also talked about how a pumpkin grows from a seed, into a vine, a flower, and finally a pumpkin. We learned that the pumpkin bud starts out yellow, turns green, then ripens into a bright orange.

Have an awesome week!