Down on the Farm!

Howdy Families!
Hope you all had a safe and fun Halloween!
The children really enjoyed the party and so did the staff!
Thanks to all of you for working so hard to make it a fun filled day!
It is hard to believe that we say goodbye to another month and enter into November. As Thanksgiving is close at hand, we are going to explore where some of our food comes from and look at a variety of animals on the farm.
Perhaps, you grew up on a farm, and would be a great wealth of information to our students.
Here is a Peek of the Week

Monday- No school! Teacher Work Day
Tuesday- Read a book about the Farm and act out the role of the farmer.
Wednesday- We will create our own farm!
Thursday- We will make some mud pudding!
Friday- We will have fun milking a cow!

Vocabulary for this week includes these words: farm, plow, fence,pond, garden, silo,tools, haystack,tractor,pig pen,pasture,overalls,chicken coop,farmer,hay bale, sheep, goats,rooster, udders,stall, fertilize, manure

Show and Tell
Please have your child bring in a farm animal, tractor, or book about the farm.

Tuesday- Henry and Sadie
Wednesday- Allie G. and Deyon
Thursday- Levi and Ally M.

Syntax targets for Deyon, Levi and Sadie- if, would, past tense( jumped, crowed, pecked, worked, played) conjunctions: but, until prepositions: under, between, behind, near, by, through.

Syntax targets for Henry, Allie G. and Ally M.- if, might Conjunctions:when,unless
May I? Why? questions Indirect discourse Mom told me.

Farm Week 2

Dear Families,
We will continue to have fun down on the Farm!
The children love learning about the animals and some of the chores that a farmer needs to do to keep a farm running.
Here is a Peek of the Week

Monday-We will make a feathered friend!

Tuesday- We will create some muddy buddies! We will paint a pig!

Wednesday- We will squeeze some fresh orange juice for our farm breakfast on Friday.

Thursday- We have the opportunity to have a real farmer bring in chickens and learn all about the different chickens. We will collect their eggs for our farm breakfast.

Friday- Yum! We will make a farm breakfast of fresh farm eggs and bacon!

For Show and Tell
Please continue to bring in anything that relates to our theme.

Vocabulary- udders, stall, manure, pitch fork, fertilize, crops, farmer, sheep, rooster, lamb, piglet, duckling, chick, foal, calf

Syntax: Levi, Sadie & Deyon*** We will continue to review the syntax targets from last week as well as added new targets: until, before/after, near, by, besides, past tense, irregular past tense( ate, laid, flew) comparatives, longest, shortest, tallest, smallest, most, least, sequencing

Henry, Ally,& Allie*** if/ might, may, unless, comparatives, longest, smallest, shortest, tallest, most, several, least, only if, sequencing