Buckaroo news for October 13-16

This has been a short but busy week for us at Camp Buckaroo!  We learned a poem about bats as we will begin learning about these fascinating, but slightly creepy, creatures next week.  The children are very excited about bringing their poetry/songbooks home for the long weekend to share with you.  I hope that you enjoy listening to your child sing these songs to you.  Please send the book back with them on Monday.  In Word Study, we worked on learning and applying the hunk-and-chunks of /all/ and /ing/.  Ask your child to share about Word Wall Fun.  In Writer's Workshop, we are learning to write down our personal narratives in detail.  We call them small memory stories.  I shared one about how I used to catch fireflies when I was young and I'd put them in a babyfood jar with holes punched in the lid.  They watched me revisit the piece later in the week to edit it so that I could zone in on the important part to add more details.  They are already doing the same to their own!  In Math Workshop, we have worked on using ten-frames to show parts of ten.  Today we took the post-assessment for Topic 3 and the pre-assessment for Topic 4.  See the photos below to know what we've done for our apple study for science.  In Readers Workshop, we have learned how to Read to Self and to Read to Someone and how to coach someone if they are having trouble with a word or understanding the text.  This week we learned how to use the laptops and the CD players to Listen to Reading.  

Here is our schedule for next week:   Monday - P.E.   Tuesday - Art   Wednesday - Music   Thursday - Library    Friday - P.E.   Monday - Art

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The girl in the middle had her birthday on Monday.  We were doing a creativity.  We are making trees out of tissue paper so when we hang them in a window it looks like stained glass.  We were making the craft for fun.  When it shines in the window it makes different shapes.  We did not have glue on the tissue paper.  It was a sticky circle.

We are pointing at our apple KWL chart.  Some of us were covered.  We learned that apples sometimes have chemicals on them so we have to wash them.  Seeds can be called pips.  There is a star inside the Red Delicious apples.  The Yellow Delicious are very sweet.  We know this because we did a taste test.  The green apples were called Granny Smith and they were very good.  Apples are in the rose family.  We learned that salt saves the apple from oxidizing.