THE WAIT IS OVER!

Hopefully everyone's child came home today excited about ducks!  Yes, you read it correctly we have been talking about ducks for the past week as well as their eggs.  Your children have created K-W-L charts on what they know and what they wonder about ducks.  They have come up with some pretty interesting things.  We have also been reading books about ducks and thier eggs such as An Egg is Quiet by: Dianna Hutts Aston and Make way for Ducklings by: Robert McCloskey, as well as many others.  We have discussed what an incubator does and how often the eggs must be turned.  Today we put 12 duck eggs in our class' incubator in hopes that 28 days from today we will have some ducklings!  Some were white but some were blue and even green so we are very excited to see what kind of ducks they will produce.  Talk to your child about what they are doing for this project!  Stay tuned for pictures, videos, and journal entries done by students!  Hope you enjoy our project!

    

A few Reminders!

~The days are starting to get colder, please remember to send your child with a jacket each day.
~If your child does not have an extra change of clothes please send them in (remember long sleeve and pants)!
~Continue to go over behavioral expectations for school.
~Remember to READ to your child nightly as well as go over "Popcorn Words" (everyone should be bringing home a book nightly that we have read together in class.  If you don't see one please let me know.  These go home in the beginning of the week).
~Thank you for your continued support.  Please feel free to contact me patricia.meek@ocsd5.net. 803-247-2184.

Awards ceremony!

This Friday, November 14th is our award ceremony which will be held in our gymnasium.  The program starts at 1:00 p.m.  Hope to see everyone there!

A Special thank you!

I wanted to give a special thank you to the Strecker family as well as the Bamberg family!  They have supplied us with snacks and we greatly appreciate it!

Student of the Month!

Congratulations John Cooper!  John made great choices for the month of October!  Continue the great work!

Pumpkin Investigations

Our class had a wonderful time with our pumpkin investigations.  We made a K-W-L chart where we wrote down things we knew and things we wondered about pumpkins.  We found out that pumpkins do in fact float when placed in water.  It surprised us because we thought that it was heavy and would sink!! We also counted the pumpkin seeds.  We put them into groups of ten first because we decided that was the easiest way to count them.  We found that our pumpkin had 478 seeds!! We discussed the texture of the inside and outside of the pumpkin.  We used our five senses to determine how the pumpkin felt, smelled, tasted, and looked.  We also took a class vote on how we would carve our pumpkin!  We had so much fun!  Check out our pictures.

Parent Night!

Please join us for Parent Night on Monday, October 13th from 6-7 p.m.  We will be discussing literacy and ways to help our children become outstanding readers!