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So...why do the little kids get to go to the pumpkin patch and not us??? Hmmm? Good questions (I thought to myself)! We can hardly wait until after Fall break...when we get to go to Frisco Fire Safety Town!

This morning we had a GUEST speaker. Mrsl Sonkin came in and talked to us about the Mac Books!  It is incredible to me how much 6-7 yr. olds know about technology these days!  And I think Mrs. Sonkin was impressed as well!

We didn't get to all of our common/proper noun sort but no worries there...we will continue with it tomorrow! (Maybe I'll even be able to capture some of it on camera!

Today our Tree Map is all about Nouns (people, places, and things) and THEN it is broken down into common and proper...Lots of sorting to do.  So far we have boy as a common, person, a school as a common, place, days as a common thing and then Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Legos and American Girl Doll all as proper things! Someone noticed that all of those proper nouns started with a CAPITAL letter! YAY!!! And that's where our lesson ended...we didn't even have that much time to write and get to workstations this morning!

During reader's workshop we started talking about "Needs and Wants".  We need: Food, Shelter, Clothes, Water, and (we agreed) Love (from family and friends)!  Oh BOY...we WANT some amazing stuff.  In our response journals we were asked to draw (or write) about one WANT and to list our NEEDS...and then it was time to head out to our guided reading/workstation rooms!

Why is it our mornings FLY by?  And I'm so busy (without Ms. Moore's extra pair of hands) I'm not able to get to pictures and videos!   I promis I will try to get some of our readers on video the next few weeks! You will be SO impressed...I know I love hearing them read and use their word attack and comprehension strategies. 

After lunch we had...
TOP DOG TIME:
Owen's Mom, Grandma (from Idaho), Dad, and Little Stella all came in to surprise him with a special poem!

The pups gave Mrs. Russell TWO thumbs up on her homework!

LIVE ON 313:

Only in Texas is it warm enough to swim in October!  

MATH:
MONEY, MONEY, MOOONEEEE!
Today I gave each pair of pups a handful of coins.  They had to graph them...In order to do that they needed to identify each one!  After their data was recorded they had to analyze their graph!  Then they had to tell the value of each coin and list them from greatest value to least value. 

HOMEWORK:
Give your child a handful of (mixed) coins.  Have them make a real object graph with the coins.  Have them tell which they had most and least of...For those that can do it have them find the value of all the pennies graphed, all the nickels graphed and all the dimes graphed.  (Skip counting by 1s, 5s and 10s)

And then it was TUB Time:
Oh man...things got a little LOUD today...the balls were bouncing way to high! I hope we can continue with tub time!
                                   
Owen was at Place Value.  He explained how he counted his candy corn!

Claire is counting like coins. 

TOMORROW:
The High Flyer performance had to be cancelled due to injuries!  BUT the PTA is bringing us a magician for character counts! We are PRETTY excited!  It will start at 8:30...
And don't forget to wear your favorite SNEAKERS! 
We have had such great Red Ribbon Week participation!

Have a wonderful weekend!