Last week...

We enjoyed a wonderful outing at Klackle's Orchard on Monday.  The kids went on a wagon ride out to the apple orchard and got to pick a bag of apples.  Then on to the pumpkin patch where each could choose the perfect pumpkin.  After that lunch topped off by homemade doughnuts and cider milled right there at the farm.  By the time we had played in the giant sandbox, ridden tricycles around a track, and played in a miniature old west village, we were ready to get back on the bus and head for home laden with apples and pumpkins to share with our families!

This week also brought a new letter focus--the letter 'Tt'.  We learned a new song about Tommy Tiger, and traced and cut out "T's" on construction paper, and then decorated them with tissue paper.  On Friday we learned how to draw a picture of a truck.

Our new color word was 'orange' and we learned a new song to help us spell that color.  Sing to the tune of Ten Little Indians:

O-R-A-N-G-E orange,
O-R-A-N-G-E orange,
O-R-A-N-G-E orange,
Orange like the juice you like to drink!
O-R-A-N-G-E orange,
O-R-A-N-G-E orange,
O-R-A-N-G-E orange,
Orange like the fruit you like to eat!

Our new sight words for the week were and & we.  We practiced reading these words and review the others we have learned with a pre-decodable reader called We See.  The children are all doing a good job learning to 'track' their words as they read, which just means they point to each word as they read it.