It's beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas!

Last week we read Mrs. McNosh Hangs up Her Wash. It is such a cute book! We then discussed Who, What, Where, and When

We also discussed community helpers and started our Community Helpers A to Z chart

As we read Mrs. McNosh, the students had to listen for something she hung up and then write it and draw a picture of it on a sticky note. They did a great job at listening!

We read several different gingerbread books last week and the students had to pick which was their favorite. They also wrote about their favorite gingerbread book

Some of my students and their awesome writing!

My students had to disguise a gingerbread man for homework and at school they wrote a story about it:

"My gingerbread is a queen. Her name is See See. She likes Mexican food. She likes to dress up in pink clothes."

"My gingerbread man is a robot. My gingerbread man's name is Toby. My gingerbread man jumps on the trampoline."

"My gingerbread man is a girl princess. My gingerbread's name is Bella. It likes to eat bananas."

"My gingerbread man is a dino. And his second name is Samson. His home is in North America."
This week we have been talking a lot about Christmas. We had a good discussion about our wants and needs.

The kids have been learning how to measure things this week in Math. This cutie learned how to measure how tall he was in presents:

They also used cubes to measure a present:

We have been counting down the days until Christmas break:

This is our new behavior system for the different tables. I give them a marshmallow for good behavior and when they get 15 marshmallows, they get hot chocolate!

We are decorating our Christmas tree!

And the gingerbread man made a visit and rewarded those with good behavior!

Plants and Bugs

Sorry for not updating lately!! Here are some pictures from last week and this week:

Last week we talked about plants:

We labeled a flower

Talked about how to plant a flower:

Wrote about what we would plant in our garden:

Discussed Earth Day and different ways we can help our earth

This week, we are talking about bugs!! The kiddos are loving this unit!

In math, we are decomposing numbers:

Last week we discussed different ways of measurement:

Area:

Capacity:

Sorting:

I took way more pictures but this is a small update!! I am so proud of my students and all of their hard work!!

Continents and Easter

We started our week off discussing North America and South America. We read Arrow to the Sun:

We used our new Follow the Yellow Bick Road chart to retell the story:

Then, the kiddos painted their own Aztec pictures:

The kiddos also learned the fancy word for opposites, antonyms.

We read The Foot Book:

And then did a fun activity (that I found on Pinterest) to go along with the book:

We also read The Big Bunny and the Easter Eggs and discussed antonyms using this book:

The kids wrote about what the Easter Bunny would do if he slept in! Their writing was very creative!

In math this week, we reviewed comparing numbers

I added two Easter centers for this week:

And last, the kids had the opportunity to skype with Mr. Marc from Adventures to fitness! This was very exciting!