FANTASTIC FRIDAY 1-25-13

We decorated our letter "I" with our initials!

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY~

Today we celebrated Sasha's half-birthday.  Sasha's mom read the story, My Very Own Fairytale.  We then ate cupcakes for her birthday snack.  Happy Half-Birthday, Sasha!

THRILLING THURSDAY 1-24-13

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!~

Today we helped Bittania celebrate her birthday.  Bittania's mother read the story, My Mom Has X-ray Vision.  We then ate snack cookies and marshmallows for snack.  Happy Birthday, Bittania! 

PENGUINS ON ICE~ 

Children were introduced to some new and some old math activities they can do with "penguins on ice".  Activities included patterning, counting, one-to-one correspondence, addition, and counting by 10's.

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY 1-23-13

NEW FREE CHOICE ACTIVITIES~

Jon exercises his fine motor skills transferring "ice cubes" from the bowl to the ice cube tray.

 The Bean Bag Toss at Games Galore has passwords instead of numbers.

 "G is for....."~

 To review and reinforce the /G/ sound, children drew pictures of a gorilla, glasses, and 2 other pictures beginning with /G/.  Be sure to ask your child what he/she drew.  Children also used inventive (phonetic) spelling to label their pictures.

TERRIFIC TUESDAY 1-22-13

WHAT DOES PEACE FEEL LIKE?~

Today we read a story called,  What Does Peace Feel Like?  and tied it into Martin Luther King's desire for us to live in peace.  After the story, the children provided their thoughts and ideas about what peace looks like, feels like, smells like, look like, and sounds like.  We then met with our buddies to write down and illustrate our ideas about peace.  Be sure to ask your child to share his/her paper about peace with you!

 

 STAR OF THE WEEK~

Josh is our new "Star of the Week"!  Josh's favorite things include the color red, eating popsicles for dessert, playing with Legos, and going out to eat a Bob Evans.  Josh also had shared some wonderful photos.  Thank you for sharing today, Josh! 

FANTASTIC FRIDAY

ZERO THE HERO DAY!~

We celebrated our 90th day of school today!  Graham's mom brought in paper zeroes for us to color.  When we finished coloring them, we crumpled them and tossed them into the middle of a parachute.  We then shook the parachute and bounced around the crumpled zeroes until they all popped off the parachute.  Graham's mom also read us the story, Chick, Chicka--1,2,3.  Thanks to Graham and his mom for a fun activity!

TERRIFIC TUESDAY 1-15-13

LAST NAMES~

Today was the first day we had to find our last names on our frog cards.  We will continue to do this until the end of the school year.

 

 WINTER WONDERLAND~

To help prepare us to make our Winter Wonderland bulletin board, we read the story, The First Snowfall.  Then, each child created at least 2 items for our bulletin board.  Be sure to ask your child what he/she created.

FREE CHOICE~

Jon's work on a Geoboard.  Geoboards were added to the Math Magic Station for use during Free Choice time.

MARVELOUS MONDAY 1-14-13

NEW WORK STATIONS~  

Today we introduced new work stations that we will do for the next 2 weeks.  Following is a description and photo of our new work stations.

At the Alphabet Station, children will match pictures that rhyme.

 At Math Magic, students will complete a graph.

 

 At the Writing Station, children are cutting apart a sentence (their words) and gluing them in order on to the Winter picture they drew.  We will compile all of the pages into a class book and add it to the Book Nook in our classroom. 

 

 At the Project Station, children will work on laptops with RazKids, which is a program where children can read and listen to books and take a quiz for comprehension.  We will send home further information about RazKids at the end of January, so that your child can access this program on your home computer, as well.

 At the Fine Motor Station, children will draw the other half of the snowman.

 At the Creation Station, children will create the parts of a snowman using various, random, recycled items.  We will display the snowmen in our classroom.

 

At the Overhead Station, children choose passwords from the word wall and then spell them with letter tiles on the overhead projector.

 NEW POPCORN WORD~

Our new popcorn word is....

 PRE-K ALPHABET MEMORY BOOK~

To review the /J/ sound we did last week, children drew pictures of a jaguar and a jack-o-lantern.  Children then had to think of 2 more items beginning with /J/ and draw them on to their page.  Be sure to ask your child what he/she drew!

Free Choice Fun~

At the Discovery Station, children can construct "snow sculptures" with styrofoam balls and toothpicks.

 

 We added Geoboards to Math Magic.

 Dominic and London are building with Zoobs in the Construction Zone.

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY~

Today we celebrated Josh's birthday!  Josh's mom read the story, Even Aliens Need Snacks.  We then enjoyed eating Drumsticks for Josh's birthday snack.  Happy Birthday, Josh!