The Itsy Bitsy Spider...

Thankfully, the rain held off until the very end of the school day.

We started the morning like any other, with calendar and weather. Our read aloud this morning was Are You a Spider?, an excellent non-fiction story about spiders.

This morning, in Writers Workshop, we practiced doing the Turn and Talk that we learned from Mrs. McDermott. To practice ordering the number 1 to 10, we colored and cut the characters from Brown Bear, Brown Bear.. which had numbers on them. They were then asked to glue them, in order, onto a long sheet of paper.

After recess we had a special visitor, Sian Brady. She is a MLS soccer player from England who teaches soccer camps in Santa Clara. She read the students The Itsy Bitsy Spider and then helped us to create our Spider Hats. It was excellent to have her here!



We had Friday Funday after our Spider Project. After lunch we completed our October Self Portraits. Throughout the year, we will draw self portraits monthly. Even comparing September and October was neat. It will be entertaining to see at the end of the year. This afternoon, we also read Anansi and the Talking Melon and .