Happy Fall Everyone!

We have had a fun week writing about our favorite fall things and reading lots of fall books. Their favorite is There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Leaves. The children are ready for Halloween and have been picking out lots of spooky stories like The Haunted House that Jack Built andThe Skeleton and the Mummy.

This week we have continued our study of maps by adding a new term: key. We learned all about the map key and how to use it to find things that we needed. Then we practiced on a real map finding things like the restroom, gift shop, and restaurants at Sea World.

We have also continued our study of animals. This week we discussed several different animal habitats. Now that we know the needs of animals, we are learning about how places meet those needs. We watched a really neat video on discovery education that showed us a desert, rainforest, forest, and ocean habitat. We got to see all of the different animals and plants that live in each place and how each one survives in these very different conditions!

In math, we have been practicing our doubles facts. This is the first part of addition for us. We have been having addition problems in our classroom work as well as our homework and are learning how to write number sentences. We incorporated this into munchie math this week. The children had to group popcorn pieces into groups and then count to see how many they had all together and write the number sentence for each one.