We finished our Apple Week with some delicious apple products.  Our classes made mini apple pies, ate applesauce, apple jelly on a cracker, and drank apple cider.  Who knew so many things were made with apples?!  The students are curious about apple pickles though.  We'll have to see about that.  :)

A reminder to all that Monday is the LAST day students can wear shorts to school.  Have a wonderful weekend!  We're looking forward to the field trip on Friday!!

Just some quick reminders....

Picture re-take day is this Friday.

ALL FIELD TRIP SLIPS AND MONEY FOR GREEN MEADOWS FARM IS DUE ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH!  Please let me know if you'd like to chaperon as well.  :)

We finished up our unit on Matter today with an "explosive" experiment in science class.  It was called "Mystery Substance".  Our job was to predict if mixing a mystery substance, baking soda, and vinegar, would turn into a solid, liquid, or gas.  (Hint:  our mystery substance was food coloring.)  Most of us thought it would form a gas and they were right!  We got a colorful foamy explosion!  It was so cool.

I wanted to give everyone a "heads-up" about a field trip we'll be taking to Green Meadows Farm on Friday, October 4th.  The permission slip should be going home tomorrow, but we need a quick turn around with the fee and slips.  Therefore, the monies will be due on THIS FRIDAY!  So sorry for the short notice.

Today we met our new music teacher, Mrs. Kuhl.  She's so nice!  We are very happy to have music class again.  :)

Our classes continued being scientists today.  We experimented with different items to see if they would sink or float.  We were pretty surprised at the results of some of our items.  It was a lot of fun!

Reminders:  Library and DOLLAR DRESS DOWN DAY tomorrow.

Today our K4 and K5 classes were Scientists!  We talked about what a scientist does and how their work is important.  Ask your student how our "Liquid Race" went today!  We discussed why certain liquids may move faster than others.

Grandparent's Day was a great success!  We really enjoyed going to mass and having everyone in our classroom today. 

Remember, if you're planning on ordering, book orders are due on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH.

This week we started a new unit in science called "Matter".  There are 3 states of matter:  solid, liquid, and gas.  Today we went on a "Matter Walk" outside to find different solids, liquids, and gases.  We are having fun in our K4/K5 Student Learning Communities!

Thursday is Back to School Night for parents.  Looking forward to seeing you there!

Remember to send in your 4 x 6 family photos and the Grandparent's Day forms are due tomorrow!

Today was our first day at the library!  Mrs. Sidello said to keep our books in our backpack.  We need to return our books next week so we can check out a new one.  We had a fun day!!

Homework Calendar

Our homework calendar went home today.  Make sure to look it over and get started right away!