MONDAY 11-12-12/ TUESDAY 11-13-12

 NEW FREE CHOICE ACTIVITIES~

Emma, London, and Jon use their fine motor and math skills to create a color pattern by stretching pony tail holders on to the cup.

 

 

Dominic completes a mosaic picture of an octopus.

 

 

 Busy Builders!

 Marc trying to find the rainbow in the prism.

 Sophia uses her spatial reasoning skills when working on geometric puzzles at Math Magic.

 COLOR FLIP BOOKS~

Yesterday, we met with our buddies and they helped us complete a "color flip book".   We drew the pictures and our buddies helped by writing the words.  Our books are on display on the bulletin board outside of our classroom.

 STAR OF THE WEEK~

Shelby is our "Star of the Week"!  We learned that Shelby's favorite color is purple; favorite restaurant is Red Robin; and favorite activity is gymnastics.  Thank you for helping us get to know you better, Shelby!

 BIRTHDAY!~

Today we helped Sophia celebrate her birthday!  Sophia's dad read one of her favorite books, Smile.  Then, we enjoyed eating drumsticks for Sophia's birthday treat.  

Happy Birthday, Sophia!

FANTASTIC FRIDAY 11-9-12

RAINBOWS~

As part of our study of colors, we read a non-fiction book today about rainbows.  Here are some things we learned......

 ~Rainbows can be seen after a rainstorm when the sun comes out.

~Raindrops (or water) bends the sunlight which create the colors of the rainbow.

~Sunlight and water makes rainbows.

~Rainbows are more commonly seen early in the morning or late in the afternoon 

when the sun is low in the sky.

~Red is always at the top of the rainbow.

~Violet is always at the bottom of the rainbow.

~The color indigo is a mixture of blue and violet.

We also discovered that you can use a prism to see a rainbow!  The prism is like the raindrops or water--the shape of it bends the light which creates a "rainbow".

THRILLING THURSDAY 11-8-12

~SOUND BOX SHARING~

REMINDER:  WE WILL HAVE SOUND BOX SHARING TOMORROW (FRIDAY).  

  

BIRTHDAY!~

 Today was Shelby's birthday!  Shelby's mom read a story to the class called, My Name Is Not Isabella.  After singing our birthday song to Shelby, we enjoyed eating drumsticks!  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHELBY!!

 

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY 11-7-12

ZERO THE HERO DAY!~

Today we celebrated Zero the Hero Day!  (This was postponed from Monday.) Jon and his mom brought in materials for us to make owl puppets.  Then, Jon's mom shared an owl number story with us.  Thank you for a wonderful story and activity!  We are half-way to 100 days of school!!

AUTHOR VISIT~

Today we had a Middle School teacher and published author visit our classroom...Mrs. Faciana.   A couple of years ago, Mrs. Faciana wrote and had published a story called, Snicker's Day Out.  After reading the story to the children, Mrs. Faciana shared photos and video of her pet dog, Snickers.  She also explained to the children where she got her idea(s) for writing this book. 

TERRIFIC TUESDAY 11-6-12

~SOUND BOX~

REMINDER:  Sound Box sharing this week will be on Thursday and Friday since tonight has been designated as "Family Night" and there is to be no homework.  Please assist your child in choosing and bringing in items that begin with the hard /C/ sound and letter (card, car, etc.).  Save items beginning with letter "K" for the week when we do that letter.  Items that begin with the /CH/ sound should not be brought for Sound Box.  Thanks!

MORNING MEETING~

During Morning Meeting, we did a new activity ("Bug In A Rug") which exercised observing and memory skills.  One child is chosen to be the scientist and "hides" his/her eyes in the other room.  The teacher chooses a child to be the bug and hides the child under the "rug".  The scientist then returns to the group and has 3 chances to guess which classmate is "The Bug In The Rug"!

NEW COLOR EXPERIMENT~

Using cups of water that are the primary colors eyedroppers, and a tray, children can experiment with mixing colors.

 

 VOTING ACTIVITY~

We did our own voting in Pre-K "A" to determine what we would eat for snack tomorrow.  Children had 3 choices from which to vote.  Voting was done individually in the Book Nook during Free Choice time. We even had ballots and stickers saying that we voted!

 Here are the results of our voting.....

 

 

HANDWRITING~

We will soon begin working on the correct formation of numbers when writing them.  Today, we used our wooden pieces to create the numbers to help prepare us for writing them.

 

MARVELOUS MONDAY 11-5-12

STAR OF THE WEEK~

David is our new "Star of the Week"!  Some of his favorite things include: his favorite color is orange; favorite dessert is a Drumstick; and favorite animal is a cheetah.  Thank you for sharing your photos and telling us about your favorite things, David!

 

OUR NEW POPCORN WORD~

 FREE CHOICE FUN~

Check out the new activity in our Discovery Station--it's a maze inside of a ball.

 Many friends were creating and building with the pattern blocks today in the Construction Zone. 

THRILLING THURSDAY 11-1-12

FAVORITE COLOR GRAPH~

Today, we asked each child to tell us his/her favorite color and we made a graph.  Ask your child to tell you about the graph using the photo below.  You could ask...

~Which color has the most?

~Which color has the least?

~Are there any colors that are equal?

 

 PUMPKIN EXPERIMENT~

Today, we took a look at our pumpkin that we opened last week; added dirt; added water; and then made predictions as to what might happen.  Well, we went over our predictions and none of them were correct.  What we did discover was that the pumpkin was rotting and shrinking!