FIELD TRIP

DON'T FORGET! TOMORROW...WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24TH IS OUR FIELD TRIP!

DRESS WARM! BE READY FOR A GREAT WALK! WE WILL POST PICTURES OF OUR FUN SOON!

THANK YOU!

Wow! I was so impressed to see so many of you for lunch today! Thank you for making/taking the time to be here. Your kids loved showing off for you, and I appreciated that we got to!

Here's some pictures from our week. Yes - we work hard... but when we play, we play! Check it out!

Today in math we had to explore the room to find sets and groups that matched a number. There were no wrong or right answers, we just had to be able to explain why we drew what we did for each number! The kids worked so hard. It was fun to see them spread out around the room, helping each other, finding comfortable places to work. Who said math isn't fun??

After we drew, we shared our work with a partner! Taking turns and listening to our buddies is something we are learning to do!

Earlier this week we rocked the "Number Rock!" Thanks to our friend Mrs. Schendel, we had props to make us feel like real rock stars! We are so cool!!

 

Thanks again for coming to lunch! Enjoy the long weekend. Remember, our field trip to the fire station is Wednesday, October 24th! Permission slips are due on Monday the 22nd!

Puppet Show

What fun we had today! The firefighters brought a puppet show to help us learn some fire safety tips!

We learned these big ideas:

• We should all check our smoke detector batteries, and make sure that we have a fire drill at school AND at home!
• Matches are not toys, they are tools. If we find them we should give them to an adult.
• If there is smoke, it will rise. That means we should stay low and crawl out if there is lots of smoke.
• If ever your clothes catch on fire, you shouldn't run! You should stop, drop and roll! Don't forget to cover your face too!

We had a great time. Sparky even came to surprise us! We are looking forward to a visit to the fire station to learn even more!

Here's some pictures from the day!

Date Change

Whoops! I wrote down the wrong date for the Turtle Team's trip to the fire station! We will go on Wednesday, October 24th! Permission slips are coming home this week. Remember if you'd like to help chaperone our field trip (or any in the future,) you'll need to have your volunteer paper work submitted! You can fill it out online or return the forms I sent home. Thanks for helping out! We appreciate it!

Firefighter Writing

Greetings Turtle Team Families!
This has been a great week so far! We've been reading about community helpers, and especially thinking about firefighters!

We started by thinking about what we knew about firefighters:

We used a fire truck and a firefighter to learn about labeling:

On Thursday, we'll learn about fire safety when the firefighters bring a puppet show to Russell School! We can't wait!

Here are some more pictures from our week!

We are learning about our 5 senses. We used mirrors to check out our taste buds and our eyes. 

We checked out our buddies eyes too!

During learning centers this week, we are "writing the room." We have to find pictures, count them and write down how many. We are having a good time helping each other out!

We are working on "collecting data" using a spinner. Then we have to show our data with a graph. Big ideas!

Oh how we have changed in a month... working on October self portraits.

We are learning a lot about beginning sounds! We can sort pictures by the first sound we hear.

Watch for updates later this week! Ask your child about learning centers this week! 

We are working hard and learning a lot!

And... mark your calendars! We'll be walking to the fire station on Friday, October 26th! We'll need chaperones! Watch for permission slips to come home soon!!

Thanks for checking in!

Ms. Molloy

So Long September! Hello October!

Greetings!

Wow! It's hard to believe that a month has already flown by!

Ms. Tracey from Beach Bus came to Russell to help us learn and practice bus safety! What a perfect addition to our story "The Little School Bus." 

Last week, we got to celebrate American Indian Heritage Day with the help of the 

MCPS Indian Education Department. 

First, we got to play some games in the gym. They would have been outside games - except it was too smoky! We learned that long ago, children played lots of different and fun and creative games inside and outside because they didn't have computers or game stations. 

Then, we got to go outside to look at and sit inside a teepee. 80 kindergartners fit inside! WOW! A Crow storyteller told us the Crow story of how the teepee came to be. It was an interesting and special story about how animals came to help a young, injured boy.

Then, we got to create our own teepees. We learned that each tribe has a special reason for thinking about the teepee the way that they do. We decided to add art that shows something special to us on the outside of our teepees.

Last, we got to visit with Cecil Crawford, a local artist. He worked with all 80 kindergartners, and taught them how to draw different several things. 

Each child was successful and left knowing that he/she was an artist!

We are very thankful for the time, talents and stories that the volunteers shared with us! 

We are lucky kids!

Bring on OCTOBER!