Clouds!

This past week we learned about clouds and the different forms they take, then we experimented and did our best to make the same formations (with shaving cream)! 

Apples and Ways to Make a Number

 This week we really focused on all the ways to make numbers up to 9.  I gave the students two sided counters (enough for each number we were working on) and they would lightly toss the counters and and draw  the outcome.  This showed them all the possibilities in making numbers!  They had so much fun and thought it was so neat!

 

We talked a lot about apples this week and read the book- Apple Farmer Annie.  I told the class that we would make applesauce.  I forgot to peel the apples, so it turned out more like baked apples than apple sauce.  Oops!

 

This was the final product.  The kids loved it!  They walked around saying how they were going to ask to make applesauce at home!  I quickly reminded them that our applesauce didn't turn out right and to ask for baked apples instead.  So thankful they enjoyed it though!!

 

We created our own apples to learn all the different parts of the apple.  I thought they turned out so cute!!

 

50th Day of School

We did celebrate 50's Day, 50th day of school, with great fun and actvities.  I forgot my phone that day and so sadly do not have any pictures to post :(  I am working on getting some up though- they are too cute to miss out on!!!

Here are some of the great activites we did for the 50th day of school:

Dressed up in 1950's attire
Bowling
Science fun with RootBeer Floats
Learning some dancing with the Hand-Jive (great for crossing the midline!)
Mock Drive in Movie with car and popcorn
Played with toys from Then (Lincoln Logs) and Now (ipod touches)


They had a great day!!

 

Thanksgiving Fun

Just a little turkey fun to start the week! Turkey sight words & salt stories- they even colored their own salt!

Log Cabin Village and other classroom fun!

We went to Log Cabin Village for a field trip last week. 

This is an old school house- this room was for every grade level!

These were rules for the Teacher and rules for the student!

We dipped our own candles!

Learned how to make clothing from wool and cotton!

Mill




In the classroom we learned how to use cubes to make the same shape as the food pictured.  We then had to write how many cubes and what color cubes were used.


We also made and tasted some butter- here is the chant we used and the final product of the butter!  Everyone loved it!!









These are some of the salt stories they made!  They turned out so cute and they loved making their own color of salt!!



 

Pumpkins of Fun!!

We survived our first field trip this week!  We had the most amazing time and lots of different activities.  We went on an awesome hayride, played on a huge playground with a maze, dressed a scarecrow, watched a flick on all different kinds of pumpkins and how much work it takes to grow them, and lastly we roasted marshmallows!!  The kids were able to choose a small pumpkin (or two) before we left and the teachers got a pumpkin too!

 

 

This was so much fun- roasted marshmallows!!

The children picking their pumpkins :)

 

I am so thankful my husband went on the field trip with us, he snagged this awesome pumpkin for our classroom!

This is what the pumpkin looked like before we dug it out.

 

 

This is the pumpkin after they dug it out.  They did a great job!!

 

To be a part of the voting season, we had our own election in the classroom. We voted for our Class Olympian for the 1st 9 weeks. We talked about the character rings and that we needed to think of someone who demonstrated those character rings daily.  We then made posters of who we wanted to vote for and why we thought they would be a good candidate.

 

 

 

Voting day came!  Each student had to show their Voter registration card before they could vote. They turned out so cute!

 

After they voted they got to color and wear their own sticker to show they voted!

They had so much fun!!

On a totally unrelated topic- I thought I would show the growth of our beans in the garden. So Cool!!

Awesome Owls & Firefighter

Two completely unrelated pictures! Last week we received these owls (they made them in art). Aren't they precious!!
We had a guest speaker come today & shared with us all the gear firefighters wear. This is to help familiarize children with firefighters so they aren't afraid of them. 

Number sense & heat energy

Looking on my phone I found these pictures I forgot to post. The anchor chart shows number bonds & all the different ways to make a number.

We have been learning about different kinds of energy. Sound energy, light energy, heat energy, and motion. The Apple pies were used to show heat energy & how heat makes things change. What I hope they all learned is that energy has to be produced.

Week 6

To end our pattern unit and to go along with the sounds of /s/, we made some silly sock patterns!!  They turned out so cute!!



We finally made it back out to our garden to plant some beans! I don't have a green thumb, so we will see if they grow!



This was a great, but sad week- we had to say good-bye to Ms. B. She left us to go to a 2nd grade classroom.  To send her off we made her a keepsake of us and some great gifts to start her own classroom!  She will be missed, but we wish her well on her journey in the teaching world :)

Week 5

We had another great week of learning in class!

This week, in math, we learned about making patterns. We used dobbers, pattern puzzles, and movement cards to create our own patterns.








I also checked out iPods from the library for the first time. The class loved them! I believe I have signed up to have them one week every month :)




For Grandparent's Day we worked with our grandparents and made a frame and drew a picture to put inside it. They turned out so cute!

 

Week 4

What a great week we had!
In math we learned about positional words.
In reading & writing we read & wrote about what families can do. Our new sight word this week was: the. We learned how to spell it through a song & sign it!
In science we learned about our 5 senses with a great popcorn experiment & some of us got to go visit our garden too!
To top it all off we had Run for the Rings on Friday! What a fun experience that was!