FANTASTIC FRIDAY 10-31-13

ASK ME ABOUT...

...where I went and what I did for Work Stations.

...what I did in P.E.

...the story, "The Little Orange House".

...the pattern I made in my pattern book.

...what letter(s) I made using wooden pieces.

...my favorite part of our Halloween party.

PATTERN BOOKS~

Today the children completed the last page of their pattern books.  Be sure to have your child share his/her pattern book with you when they come home on Friday.

 HANDWRITING~

Today the children worked on building upper case letters using the big line, little line, big curve, and little curve wooden pieces.

 PUMPKIN STORY~

Be sure to ask your child about the story, "The Little Orange House".  

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY 10-30-13

ASK ME ABOUT...

...what I did in Spanish.

...what I did in Music.

...where I went and what I did for Work Stations.

...the story, The Little Old Lady Who Wasn't Afraid Of Anything.

...ways we can help other people who may not have enough money to buy food.

...playing the "straw game" at calendar.

MORNING MESSAGE~

We have some amazing "password detectives" in our class.  In today's morning message, we had children comment that they found some of our previous passwords inside of other words.  For example, one child offered that the word, "we" is inside of Owen's name.  Another child found the word, "he" inside of the words the, helping, and others.  WOW! 

CALENDAR~

As part of our calendar activities today, we played the "straw game".   With the straws we use for counting the number of days we have been in school, the teacher presents a combination of the straws (groups of 10 and single straws) to an individual child.  The child counts the straws and then tells how many straws are represented.  The children did amazingly well with this activity.  We told them they were doing first-grade thinking!

 Two groups of ten straws represents 20.

 Four groups of ten straws represents 40.

 HALLOWEEN STORY~

Today we read the story, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid Of Anything.  After the first reading, we assigned each child a part in the story and "acted out" the story on the second reading.  Be sure to ask your child which part he/she did!

TERRIFIC TUESDAY 10-29-13

ASK ME ABOUT...

...where I went and what I did for Work Stations.

...what I did in P.E.

...what I did in Spanish.

...the story, The Relatives Came.

...what a relative is.

...what a fear is.

...the story, Bear Feels Scared.

...the "web" of fears we made and what we did with the "web" of fears when we were finished.

 NEW WORK STATIONS~

At the Project Station, children cut out 3 pictures and put them in order representing the nursery rhyme, "Little Miss Muffet". 

At Math Magic, children "flip" a paper pumpkin and record the results after each flip.

 

 

 

 At the Alphabet Station, some children will "write the room", finding and recording words around the classroom.  Some children will do an alphabet hunt where they locate different letters in the room and color them in on a recording sheet.

 At the Discovery Station, children sequence the order of the life cycle of a pumpkin.

 At the Writing Station, children illustrate their page for our class book, Please Don't Quit, a follow-up activity to the reading of the book, The Day The Crayons Quit.

 At the Fine Motor Station, children cut out different sizes of pumpkins and glue them in order by size.

 At the Creation Station, children glue foam pieces on to a rainbow in the correct color order.

 Children working with Mrs. Spolter exercise their spatial reasoning skills using various math manipulatives.  

Using the cards pictured below, children build the structure on the card using color cubes.

 Using the cards pictured below, children use pattern blocks to fill in the shapes.

 

 WRITER'S WORKSHOP~

Our story during Writer's Workshop was, The Relatives Came.  We then had some children share a personal story to the class related to this book.

 FREE CHOICE LEARNING~

Creative skills were flowing today at the Creation Station.

 DISCUSSION ABOUT FEARS~

In our recent nursery rhyme, we learned that Miss Muffet was frightened by a spider.  As a follow-up, today we talked about fears and what happens when you are afraid of something.  We then read the story, Bear Feels Scared.  Following the story, we made a web of fears, where each child shared a fear.  After everyone shared, we collected the web and threw away our fears.

MARVELOUS MONDAY 10-28-13

ASK ME ABOUT...

...the new activity in the Sensory Tub.

...the story, Pumpkin Circle.

...what shaped we worked on in our handwriting books.

what story Mrs. Arner read to us at the library.

...what book I checked out from the library.

...the new password.

FREE CHOICE LEARNING~

Check out some of the new activities offered during Free Choice time....

Nate and Emily drawing with colored chalk on black paper.

 Noah and Vivan show the faces they made using playdough and face parts.

 

 At Math Magic, children can roll the dice; count or add the dots; and color in the corresponding number on their paper.

 Laken exercises his fine motor skills and weaves a spider web at the Fine Motor Station.

 
 Kyndal and Brett explore and examine what happens when they use an eyedropper to add colored vinegar to baking soda at the Sensory Tub.

 Willa counts the pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns in the counting basket.

 Willa and Nate discover there are 99 pumpkins in the counting basket.

Children can exercise their fine motor skills by digging for spiders in a container of rice.  Once they find a spider, children must shake the slotted spoon to get rid of the rice so that the spider is left on the spoon.

 At the Discovery Station, Carsyn and Emily are sorting spiders that are different colors and different sizes.

 BOOK FAIR!~

Emily's mom visited us today and brought some samples of books being sold at the Book Fair.  The children are very excited about the books they saw today. 

 HANDWRITING~

Children worked on making squares in their handwriting books, emphasizing drawing lines from top to bottom and right to left.  Before making them in their books, children practiced making squares with wooden pieces.