Next Wednesday – Halloween! Please bring your child’s costume in a bag, we will help them to change into their costume, or put over their clothes. Come watch our all-Quest costume parade on the sidewalk 2:15 – 2:30 on Wednesday!
Monday
Guided Writing – Bats at Night – Each student composed a page for our class book, The Bats at Night. Each page began…”The bat saw…” and then each student thought of what the bat saw during the night time.
Math – Tricky Teens – The teen numbers (11 – 19) can be very tricky for some! We focused on those numbers today and thought of different strategies to make these numbers using Unifix cubes.
Illustration – Bats at Night – We printed each child’s page in our story and students used their nocturnal animal drawing skills to illustrate their writing.
Tuesday
Brainstorming – Props and Costumes for Bats at Night Play – We went through each page in our story and brainstormed what we would need for props and costumes to act out each page. Students worked together to construct, sew, and paint many needed items.
Math – Halloween Word Problems – After reading the story Two Little Witches by Harriet Ziefert, students created their own Halloween word problem. For example
“3 Trick-or-treaters met 2 ghosts! 3 + 2 = 5”
Math – Intro to 3-D shapes – After talking about the differences between 2D shapes and 3D shapes, we played some Starfall games together on the Smartboard that featured 3D shapes. 
Wednesday
Math/Construction – Building 3-D Structures – Students were challenged to create a 3D structure using toothpicks and mini marshmallows.
Literacy – Guided Reading – I read with each student at individual levels, while the rest of the group used Starfall on the iPads.
Read-Aloud – The Very Quiet Cricket – We watched a video of a little cricket calling out to a friend in the night time. Then we read the Eric Carle story, The Very Quiet Cricket about a cricket who finds her song. Our observant students noticed that the cricket in the story starts out very small, but as she gets bigger, she is able to make a song.
Thursday
Reader’s Theater – Bats at Night – Using our props, costumes, and the nocturnal forest as a backdrop, we acted and out each page from our story. I made recording and am putting it all together as a video book….soon to be released!
Literacy – Whiteboard Letters and Words – Students worked on letter formation and cvc word spelling.
Literacy – Mother Goose Box – Nursery Rhymes are a great way to exercise phonemic awareness and memory skills. I have a box of felt rhyme stories…children pull a token from a bag and “purchase” a rhyme from me. We will practice these all year.
Friday
Reader’s Theater – Bats at Night – We continued working on our play
Memory Game – The Secret Door – Memory games are great for this age! We played a spooky haunted house game called The Secret Door by Family Pastimes. Family Pastimes makes cooperative games…also great for this age..the players work together against the game instead of against each other. 
metrical Pumpkins and Spirals
Skunk on Hemlock Circle
