Mrs. Rays Busy Bee's: Halloween and Community Helper Parade

We had our Halloween Party this week which was lots of fun! Thanks again to all the moms who helped out! The kids had a great time making mummy hands, eating "dirt and worms," and playing Halloween Bingo! We also had our Community Helper Parade on Monday morning. We dressed up as different community helpers and got to walk around our school and the intermediate school to show the older kids our outfits!

This week in Reading we focused on the letter C/c and our alphafriend for the week was Callie Cat. We read stories about how different animals move. We worked on coming up with adjectives to describe how animals move and also worked on color words. Our new sight word for the week was "a."

In Phonics we focused on the letter S/s. We did our normal phonics worksheets and made two kinds of snakes for the letter S/s, and also "Sally Square." On Friday we listened to the story Stone Soup and made our own stone soup! And one lucky student got a stone in their soup! But we all got to take a small stone home to help us remember the story and the importance of sharing and that we are all special. We are continuing to do our reading practices each week, and the words will be getting more difficult to sound out. Please be working with your child at home on sounding out these words, so that they can all become successful readers!

In math, we continued work on patterns. We made patterns with pumpkins, linking cubes, bears, and color tiles. We focused on making ABB patterns and ABC patterns. We also worked on our handwriting when it comes to writing numbers. We really practiced writing the numbers the correct way.

We had some special things happen this week too! On Tuesday afternoon we got to go to the intermediate school to hear the 7th grade band play. The kids loved seeing and hearing the different instruments. On Wednesday, we got to go hear about the new butterfly garden that is going to be built at our school. We learned about the butterflies that will live there and what we can do to take care of them.

Getting ready for our Parade!