How do vehicles help us?

This week we focused our investigations on vehicles and how they help us. We learned about: tractors, fire engines, dump trucks, diggers, cranes, transporters, and garbage trucks. Our focus book this week was Dig, dig, digging, by Margaret Mayo and Alex Ayliffe.

This week was full of opportunities to be creative. I hope you are able to check out your child's art work in the classroom. Your children are wonderful artists and great at cooperating with each other.

Many of us were ill this week please be sure to talk to your children about hand washing and coughing into their elbows.

A week of changes

Last week was full of excitement. We walked to the fire station on Monday and we walked to the park on Friday. We also had a very nice substitute teacher, named Ms. Heaton. Today we took another walking field trip to the bakery.




We read Ms. Bindergarten takes a field trip with kindergarten, by Joseph Slate, and focused a lot of attention on the shapes we find in the environment.

Your children are making leaps and bounds in their writing. For some of us sounding out words is really starting to click. It is very exciting for me to see this happen. Your children are becoming more confident with each other and in their own abilities and today felt like a great day to celebrate all of these accomplishments.