School Bus Safety Field Trip

On Monday, October 4th, the students will be participating in a school bus safety field trip. A bus driver will talk to the students about school bus rules and procedures, and we will take a short field trip on the bus to a park nearby Beartooth, so students can practice the rules and experience riding the bus. A permission slip was sent home in your child's red folder on Wednesday. Please sign and return the form by FRIDAY so your child can attend the field trip.

Thank you!

Science with the 6th Graders!

Snack Calendar

A snack calendar for October will be in your child's red folder this afternoon. Each student will be assigned a day to bring snack for the class. We have 23 students in our class. We do have a small refrigerator in our room, so you are welcome to send things such as cheese sticks, yogurt, fruit or veggies. We do have a nut allergy in our room, so please be mindful of this as you plan snack. Thank you!

Teddy Bear Picnic Fun!

We had a great time at our Teddy Bear Picnic! The kids helped make biscuits, that we ate with honey. We graphed who liked them and who did not. We also sorted our bears into lots of different groups - this picture is sorting them by color. Thanks for helping the kids to remember their stuffed friends for a fun day! And thanks to Isabella and Jass for bringing some treats to share!

Teddy Bear Picnic

Kindergarten Service Project

The kindergarten classes at Beartooth are going to participate in the Drink Pouch Brigade upcycling program. Pouch Brigades are groups of kids and adults who collect empty drink pouches (such as Capri Sun). When they collect enough, the pouches are mailed away to be upcycled into new products. Think of how many pouches are saved from landfills each year!

Beartooth School will receive $.02 for every drink pouch we turn in. So the MORE pouches our class collects, the MORE we will help the environment and the MORE cash we will get for our school! All money collected will be donated to the Beartooth PTA to use on projects to help our school.

Here's how kids can help:
1) Finish your drink.
2) Remove the straw.
3) Put it in the collection bin. No rinsing or washing!
Collection bins will be available in each classroom and the lunchroom. You can bring pouches from home, and recycle pouches used at school. Easy!

Empty pouches are mailed for free to TerraCycle, a company that turns them into cool bags and pencil cases for kids and adults.

Help us out! Drink it. Save it. Upcycle it!

Apples!

The week of September 27-October 1st, we will be learning about the letter Aa and all about apples! On Wednesday the 29th, we will have an apple taste testing in our room. We will need red, green and yellow apples for the students to taste, so we can graph and write about our favorites.

On Friday, we will make applesauce in our classroom, and will need apples and cinnamon. If you can send in any of these supplies, please do! If we end up with lots of apples, we'll have them for snack another day. The kids LOVE them!!

Thanks for your help!

Buddy Class

Today we met with our "buddy room", Mrs. Hanson's 6th graders, for the first time. The students worked together on a kindness puzzle. We will meet with our buddies every Wednesday. This is a great opportunity for both classes, and something the kids really look forward to each week!

Star of the Week

Every student in our class will have the opportunity to be Star of the Week. When your child is Star of the Week, a poster will be in their red folder on Wednesday. Please help your child complete and color the poster, and add some photographs to share. Please send the poster and a show and tell item to school on the following Monday.

The Star of the Week for September 27-October 1 is Airianna. Congratulations, Airianna!

Beartooth Kids are Special!

Student of the Month

Each month a Student of the Month is chosen from our class. It is always hard for me to choose among such wonderful kids. I look for a kindergartner who is a good listener, who is a good friend and who always tries his or her best. The Student of the Month gets to have McDonald's lunch with Mrs. McCall and the other Students of the Month. This month's lunch is on September 29th.

Congratulations to Gavin, our Student of the Month!

Good Morning Bear Poem

Brown Bear, Brown Bear video

Check out this great video of author Bill Martin reading the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

Our "Yellow" Song

Y-e-l-l-o-w spells yellow.
Y-e-l-l-o-w spells yellow.
Like the early morning sun, when the day has just begun.
Y-e-l-l-o-w spells yellow.

Teddy Bear Picnic

Next Friday, September 24th, we will be having a Teddy Bear Picnic. Kindergartners will be able to bring their teddy bear (or other favorite stuffed animal) to school for the day. We will have fun sorting and graphing our stuffed friends, as well as thinking of describing words (fluffy, furry, cuddly, etc.)

Throughout the week, we will be learning the letter Bb and doing lots of fun projects with bears. It should be a fun week!