FANTASTIC FRIDAY 3-15-13

SPRING BREAK

Wishing you and your family a safe, healthy, and relaxing Spring Break.

 See you on April 1st! 

FREE CHOICE~

We glued watches on our "W"!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY~

Today we helped Madelyn celebrate her March birthday.  Madelyn's mom read a GREAT book called, Press Here.  Then, we ate Drumsticks for a birthday treat.  Happy Birthday, Madelyn!

THRILLING THURSDAY 3-14-13

FREE CHOICE~

Today we introduced a new activity at the Writing Station--Writing Words on the Window.  Using erasable markers, children can write words from our Word Wall or from our Popcorn Words on the windows!

NAVRUZ~

Today, Shelby and her mom taught us about the Spring celebration of Navruz which takes place in the country of Uzbekistan, the country where Shelby was born.

 Shelby's mom read an Uzbekistan folktale, The Golden Watermelon, which was written and illustrated by a young child.

 This is the flag of Uzbekistan.

 Shelby shows her doll who is dressed in Uzbekistan clothing.

 Mrs. Spolter was dressed up in clothes that Uzbekistans wear for special occasions, such as Navruz.

 Shelby's mom brought in melon to eat and green tea to drink--traditional food and drink for the celebration of Navruz.

SPACE RIDDLES~

We met with our 2nd grade buddies today for Space Riddles ans Space stories!

STAR OF THE WEEK~

Our "Star of the Week" is Madelyn.  Madelyn's favorite things include her favorite color:  pink; her favorite dessert:  ice cream; and her favorite activities:  Candyland and Barbies.  Madelyn also shared her photos and a board that she broke in her Taikwondo class.  Thank you for helping us get to know you better, Madelyn!

WACKY WEDNESDAY!! 3-13-13

We enjoyed wearing our wacky outfits today and finding some wacky things happening in the classroom.....

Wacky Wednesday - slideshow



NEW WORK STATIONS~

At Math Magic, children are completing an activity called "Target Number".  The activity allows children to discover various ways to add together 2 numbers and get the number 6.

 

 

 

 

 At the Alphabet Station, children are working on rhyming words.   For each object pictured below, children draw a picture of an object that rhymes with it.

 For the word bee, a child drew....

...a tree and labeled it using inventive spelling.

 At the Writing Station, children write words on the correct frog from the Word Wall, from the Calendar, from our Color Words, and from our Popcorn Words.

 At the Overhead Station, children work on a word search with Space words.

 At the Creation Station, children are using watercolor paints to design/create their own planet.

 At Games Galore, children are playing a game reinforcing letter sounds.

 At the Discovery Station, children are creating a model of the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth around the Sun and the Moon around the Earth.

 SPANISH~

To review the names of the shapes in Spanish, the children built rockets using shapes.  These are on display on the bulletin board outside of our classroom.