Rocking the Vote!

It was a short and sweet Election week in SK!  Read on to learn more...

Daily Five + Language:
- Rhyming: we keep working hard to master the tricky world of rhymes, completing, discriminating and generating our own.  Playing games and reading rhyming books are really helping SKers to become stronger rhymers (reading and writers too!)
- Writing samples: we wrote on our own, with our own ideas, doing our best SK writing (upper case, spaces, ending punctuation!)  We can't wait to share our first sample (on 9/7) and our new sample (on 11/7!) with you soon - we are great writers, growing stronger every day!
- Book 13: a new decodable book joins your SKer's library this weekend... it's chock full of start words for good reading practice!

Math:
- Tallying: we read and wrote tallies galore!  Reading them by fives really helps to speed up our counting to high numbers, and organizes our ideas about groups of numbers too.
- Counting by Fives/Ones: switching from fives to ones when counting tallies can be tricky!  Keep practicing this skill with your SK friend.
- Writing double digit numbers: after counting tallies by fives, switching to ones and finding the total, we wrote big double digit numbers... it's can be tough to know which number comes first!  "Twenty-seven - how do we write that?  Two first, then a seven... what would it be if we switched the numbers?"  Play these games with your SKer at home.
- Intro to coins: we began exploring coins and sorting by attribute.  Much more to come this year!

Science:
- Terrific Turkeys: we began our turkey study, sketching our idea of a turkey!  Then we read a good book to learn more about a turkey's body, and we sketched again!  It was exciting to see what good research can do for our work in SK.  Ask your friend what parts a turkey has, from head to toe!

Getting the Vote Out:
- We had a terrific time, exercising our right to vote this week!  After enjoying the primary process, we were ready to vote for our choice between the final two candidates for a new lunch item; waffles and cereal.  We checked in with our ID cards, entered our own voting stations, and took care of our business with good manners.  We were thrilled to find out the winning item at the end of the day!  We'll be welcoming waffles to our lunch menu rotation for the new two years!

Books We Loved:
- Cranberry Thanksgiving
- Coins
- Duck for President
- My Teacher for President
- Clifford for Presidents

Extra!  Extra!  Reminders:
- No school this Thursday or Friday - we'll see our SK friends on Monday for a full week!  Looking forward to seeings moms and dads at conferences (thank you all for scheduling!)
- The week of 11/19 is another short week; we'll have school as usual on Monday and Tuesday, and then enjoy a short morning on Wednesday for Grandparents and Special Friends Day.  (More information about this exciting day coming to you this week!)

Coming Up:
- Sleeping bags will head home with your SK friends on Friday 11/16 for a good wash - thanks for bringing them back on Monday 11/19!
- New Show and Share clues begin Monday 11/26... thank you for helping your SKer select things that rhyme with at/am/ap, or two things that rhyme together this round!  We'll send information your way before the new round begins in a few weeks.