Galls

Morning greeting..... colorful easter eggs with a classmates name in it. Open it up and you have to go greet that person. Kids loved opening their egg and figuring out who they would shake hands with and say "good morning" too.

Free choice imaginations going wild!!!

Language Arts.... We read a new Mo Willems book called That is NOT a Good Idea

We made predictions about what the book might be about...

Kam - "They are going to marry each other and chicks aren't going to like it."

Ryder - "I think the fox is going to eat the duck."

Molly - "I think he's gonna put her in the pot."

What is the same or different about the Mo Willems books?

Savi - "It doesn't have the pigeon in it."

Mazie and McCartney - "The author had the characters talk to us. They even look at us."

Molly and Kam - "They made us laugh."

Ryder and Fiona - "they all have problems in the book and they have chicks in the book too."

Eli and Earl - "The pigeon always talks to the audience."

Azza & Dahlia - "There is a lot of connections in all the books."

Dance class with Karen is progressing well!

Four Winds was lots of fun... we learned a lot about Galls, those balls you find on Golden Rod.

Thank you Kathleen and Ellen for presenting to us.

We discovered lots of larva in the galls which hatch in May usually. We discovered how they live and make tunnels, etc.

Body function and structure

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to the Clough and Askew families for bringing in snacks. We really appreciate it!

Language Arts we worked on taking a bunch of words and make a sentence.  The group worked together with all the words and formed a sentence using the skills they have learned. They knew that a capital letter starts a sentence. A period, ends a sentence. Also, the words together in a sentence needs to make sense. We also continue to practice our sight words. You may find that your child is brining home some of his/her sight word cards, that is because they have them memorized and have begun practicing new words. We hope the kids will keep practicing those words, even though they have been sent home. 

In math today we cut out number cards and dot cards and matched them and glued them together!  Then we took our cards and learned a new game called "Top It".  Ask your child how to play Top It, (it's like the card game called war).  You can play at home with a regular deck of cards with the face cards removed.  When you have a tie each person keeps their own card.

FREE CHOICE.....

Max made a boat with a car. The car detaches and goes to scout things out.Then the boat can go in the water. 

 

 Grady and Ryder made a cool space shuttle base. 

 

Some of us really enjoy a little fuel to keep us going through the rest of the day. 

Thanks for those snacks!

Mock class lead by Maddie, while others are the students being taught their letters and sounds. Great to see that learning just continues even without the teacher.

Today we started a new Science unit, about the body, its function and structure and its relationship between the two.  We looked at a birds wings and thought about it's function and how the structure helped its function. We also looked at a giraffes neck and its function and how the structure helped its function.

Buddy time!

Sharing today with a few friends.....

Bodhi brought in a special rock to share.

Earl brought in, and wore his sharing....he was "rockin'" in his new school shoes!

 Fiona shared her unicorn horn.

BUDDY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Our buddies came in today to do an art project. We made pictures of spring. Anything that made us think of spring time we could draw and color in with water colors. We have a great display of colorful pictures in the classroom if you have a moment, come take a look.

Reading with our buddies after our projects. 

Another reminder.... We still need snacks. We are on our last cheerios and pretzel sticks. If you can, please send in some healthy snacks you'd like to share. Or please send in extra food for your child to eat during our afternoon optional snack time. We thank you very much!

Dance with Karen

We started our artist and residency program with Karen Amirault, our groovy dancing friend. She started working with us today. We did some fun exercises and then started doing a few dance moves. Looking forward to seeing what we class dance is going to be.  Final performance of our dance routine will be April 13th at pm.

SHARING.....................

Grady shared his army truck and a couple guys. 

 McCartney sharing her special petrified wood from her great grandfather. 

Dahlia sharing her paper wasps nest, with some dead wasps in it!

 West shared his remote control car that flips and can keep driving!

Savi shared her special pink bunny. 

In Language Arts we have been reviewing our vowels and consonant letters. Say the letter, name the picture clue and say the sound of the letter. We practice every day. We also used magnet boards to do practice alphabetizing, and practiced writing some of our three letter, CVC words. We each have our own sight word key rings and have been working on those each day as well. 

In Math we continue to focus on subtraction.  We used blocks today to think about all the different ways we could subtract from 8.  Then we wrote number sentences to match.  

SNACK ALERT.......

We are in need of snacks to share with our friends. Please consider sending in some healthy snacks, i.e.: pretzels, goldfish, apples, graham crackers, granola bars, clementines, etc.  Much appreciated.

PLEASE NOTHING NUTS! Not even processed in a nut processing facility.