fairy tales

What a fun day it was on Friday!  Come by and see pictures of the students all dressed up.  I am headed to print them right now!  I did not have them cover their faces, or I would have had pictures of them posted here.

pillars of character

I hope you will take the time to read what the students came up with for our circle maps on  pillars of character.  They are really amazing!  We are working on these in our classroom.  You could probably print these from this blog if you wanted to reinforce these at home, too.

The Little Red Hen

What better way to retell a story than to make a story board.  We have some budding artists in our classroom.  What precious animals they drew!  They loved adding the speech bubbles to their animal.  Everyone in the whole class had their very own part.  This was one of the activities we did in our study of fairy tales. 

patterns

Wow!  You can see how sophisticated we have become making patterns.  Now they are 3 dimensional. In the next couple of weeks, we are going to do additive patterns as well as number patterns (counting by 10's, 5's, and 2's).  Stay tuned to see those! 

observational writing

In writing, we are using tree maps to help us get ideas for observational writing.  Students are being really creative to come up with some of their own ideas.

Observable Properties

As scientist, we are learning to observe objects by mass, size, color, texture, and shape. We had fun using these properties to observe a rubber ducky and a small ball.

Greetings

I am changing from kindergarten to first grade!

Zoo 1



I am finally caught up with my blogs!  Where have the weeks gone?  After the zoo trip, we began a study of zoo animals.  Research tells us that students need to have the real experience before learning about it, if at all possible, so that they can link what they have seen to new learning.  The first picture shows what coverings the zoo animals we saw had.  The next picture was linking our learning to the first sounds of the animals.  What a good way to review all of the letters we have learned.  We did have to look up an animal for N and U.  Some of the animals we did not see, but most we did see.  We are still learning about zoo animals next week, too.   

Plants

We had some interesting hands-on activities with plants.  Our garden is the perfect spot for learning about plants.  I should have taken more pictures!  One fun activity that we did was list vegetables that grow above the ground and those that grow under the ground.  The chart was labeled tops and bottoms after a book we read with that title, Tops and Bottoms.

Earth Day

Have you noticed your child being more Earth Friendly?  They may be telling you how to reuse, recycle, or reduce.  Picture one showed uses for trees.  Picture two showed how to conserve and protect our water.  Picture three was our pledge to the earth.