"Fall"ing into fun!

We were all about popping our popcorn words this week!  Your child brought home a popcorn word folder that looks like this:

Please help them practice their sight words every night until they can "pop" them (say them quickly without sounding out the word).  Each week I'll exchange the ones they can pop for new words!  They earn pennies for bringing it back each day!  (The pennies are used to buy prize cards for privileges in class, like sitting on top of their desks, sitting on a hippity hop, free time, chewing gum, etc.!)

We spent some time being curious about fall, and began making some discoveries.  The students had some great questions, like "Are there leaves in space?  Why do leaves change color?  What colors can leaves change?  Why do leaves flutter?"  We collected many leaves and branches and sorted them in different ways.  We discovered that only quaking aspen leaves flutter on the branch, and we also sorted by color to discover that leaves can turn every color except for blue!  We'll continue our exploration of fall next week.

We've been doing lots of graphing in math.  We graphed flipping a penny, apple tasting, and boys vs. girls in our class!

The kids had a lot of fun this week with Ann Millard, a retired principal and kindergarten teacher from Eagle who is here doing a developmental screening for all kindergarteners in the district.  The kids just think she is here to play lots of fun games with them!  I will be excited to share the results with you.