Hoot 10

"Land of the silver birch, home of the beaver"
With beaver skull in hand, TISA kinder explores storyscape of Canadian canoeing song.

Thank you for attending Kinder's Open House! It was refreshing to converse with grown-ups mostly for ninety minutes. On that note, I wanted to share a postcard from my home town: Miskolc, Hungary. With all those churches and terracotta roof tiles, would you believe that Miskolc is an industrial town of 200,000? Still, it is magical to me.


Mix and mingle -- Open House in Kinder
If you were not able to attend, you can pick up your child's folder of resource materials from me.

Molly, our super-librarian with our writing about the children's library.

BOOK MISSING and overdue on Tessa's card: The Berenstain Bears are superbears! by Berenstain, Mike

If you detect it in your home, please send it back with your child. 

Finding "c" words in the library

Book Giveaway at the children's library, Oct. 28!

Building "-am" words

The three Bob Books that we are currently reading: Mac, Mat, Sam

Reading the "bat" band (word stretching training in kinder)

Creating patterns (AB, AAB, ABB, and ABC) -- "caller" reads pattern, peers close their eyes and continue pattern

Tag and read each pattern component

Hopscotch with numbers, shapes and letters: a winning combo

Third graders singing "Mother Earth" with kinder

Precious moment: little sister passing lantern to big brother

This week's dates:
Monday,Tuesday -- please bring in pizza orders and hand them to me or Laurie (envelopes in open house resource folders)
8:30-9:00 every morning -- Lantern walk parent sing-along. Come one, come all! Bring your guitar/ukulele/drum/fiddle!
Oct 27, this Thursday -- 5:45/6:00pm-6:30ish Annual TISA Lantern Walk on Manzanares campus
Oct 31 -- Halloween (I will be posting information and volunteer functions on the blog.)

Upcoming November events:
Nov. 1 -- Day of the Dead celebration -- Please let me know if you have questions about this event.
Nov. 3 -- Twirl: Light Play workshop
Nov. 10 -- Parent-Teacher conferences (I will post sign-up this coming week)

Homework:
Do on Monday: math book page 10
Do on Tuesday: clap syllables in animal's names (at dinner table?) Then draw and write favorite/longest animal name with number of syllables (e.g. cha/me/le/on = 4)
Do on Wednesday: book report