This morning Kindergarten was eager to check in on our apples. Our prediction was correct and the apple core that was left out turned the most brown. Students also noticed that it was mushy and a little bit black. The whole apple with lemon juice did not change at all and the side of the apple in the water did not change too much but the side out of the water was starting to turn brown. We look forward to observing how the apples continue to change over time.
In Math we did some more work with ten frames. Students got their own ten frame and practiced filling it with certain amounts of cubes. Students noticed that we can both add to and take away from the ten frame to make different combinations of numbers.
For Reader's Workshop we began an author study of Ezra Jack Keat's books. I explained that the books we will be reading are all about the same person, or main character, named Peter. Today we read Peter's chair and Kindergarten noticed how Peter changed over the course of the book. At the beginning he did not want to share his things with his new baby sister and some students described him as mean but once Peter realized he was too big for his baby cradle, chair and crib he changed and decided to help his father paint his favorite chair for his sister.
Also - this week the PTO is doing their annual pumpkin raffle! Send your child in with a quarter to vote for their favorite pumpkin, decorated by my Smith teachers and staff. Here is the Scaredy Squirrel pumpkin I created based on Melanie Watt's books:
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