Where did October go?!
This October was quite busy causing me to be so late on our monthly post. The kids have luckily been so flexible between all the assemblies and the holiday and even my absences. This month has really started the ball rolling on skills and knowledge that we will be using this year. Kindergarten has probably had the biggest month. The month began with the story The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. This will not be the only book of his we look at this year. We look at one of our basics shapes a dot or a circle. We create a dot series just like Vashiti did in the story. We created a large dot by coloring a coffee filter with watercolor markers (Mr.Sketch) and spray it with water and watched how the colors ran into one another (or bled together). Another pieces had lots of dot in all sizes and colors. Our last dot was made by making a dot by not drawing a dot. Students colored the space around a dot so the 'negative' space was left us with a dot. This was many of the students f