Letter Rr and Number 18

We started our week by celebrating St. Patrick's Day. Click here to see our St. Patrick's Day pictures and blog post.  Through the week we learned about letter Rr and number eighteen.   We had so much fun learning all about rainbows.  We learned that in order for a rainbow to appear you need sunlight and rain or a prism.  We discovered many rainbows in our classroom! 

 

This week we also celebrating the beginning of Spring!  We read and sang the very silly story, " The Twelve Days of Springtime" by Deborah Lee Rose. We also made our own beautiful spring paintings.

 

This week we will be focusing on the letter Ss and the number nineteen.  School is closed this Friday, so homework will be due on Thursday. 

 

 

St. Patrick's Day

We had such a magical St. Patrick's Day! A little mischievous and bold Leprechaun visited our classroom leaving us clues to help put his rainbow back together!  We all worked together to understand his clues and we did it!! We found all the colors of the rainbow!  The Leprechaun was so happy that he left us a small pot of gold to share with everyone.

 

Through the day we used shamrock letters to work on putting letters in alphabetical order.  We also used shamrock numbers to play the "Find the Missing Number" game.  We made silly green headbands and even made our own little handprint leprechauns.  We danced to Irish music as we learned about Irish heritage. 

 

We hope you all had a wonderful St. Patrick's Day!

 

Please still look out for our regular weekly blog post at the end of the week. 

Letter Qq & Number 17

Last week, we had a quiet time learning about Quilla Queen in her quiet kingdom.  We had such a fun time using Q-tips to make our own unique creatures just like Dr. Seuss' silly characters.  We also continued through the week working on our Q-tip paintings where we learned about pointillism.  On Friday, the children all were able to participate in making our class quilt(pictures coming soon).  We also celebrated two birthday in our class this week!

 

This week we will beginning with our St. Patrick's Day party on Monday.  Please remember to try to send your children to school wearing green.  I have taken care of snack for this party.  The children will be learning about letter Rr this week and we will start with a lesson about rainbows and go on a rainbow hunt that will eventually lead to a pot of gold(Pops cereal) and I will also be providing cupcakes and Irish soda bread. I hope everyone has a very Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Signs of Spring

On the way out this afternoon I spotted signs of Spring coming soon in our garden! I am so excited to start preparing our garden with my class and to see what our garden will become this year!   This is my 2nd year gardening, the first year was a  learning experience just as much for me as it was for my students. If anyone has any tips please feel free to let me know as I will gladly take them. 😀

Check out the pictures below from last years garden. 

Letter Pp & Number 16

Last week, we had a wonderful time learning about the letter Pp with Penelope Pig!  We worked on many puzzles through the week and we had our first group of friends to finish a one hundred piece puzzle!  We also celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday (March 2nd)  all week by reading many books each day.  We read some familiar Dr. Seuss books such as, " The Cat in the Hat", "Green Eggs and Ham", "Dr. Seuss' ABC Book",  and "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back".  We learned through reading a Scholastic reader that Dr. Seuss loved hats! He loved to wear silly hats because he thought they gave him his silly thoughts.  We all made our own silly hats just like Dr. Seuss.  We also made silly Thing Ones and Thing Twos, characters from " The Cat in the Hat", with our handprints.  On Friday, our classmate reread the story " Green Eggs and Ham" and we all were able to try real green eggs and ham! When we were finished with used tally marks to see how many students liked the eggs and ham and how many friends did not like them.  We had a total of six students who liked them and four students who did not like them.

 

This week we will be learning about letter Qq with Quilla Queen and the number seventeen.

 

Just a reminder, please remember to check your child's folder and remove all papers/notes each night on the Keep at Home side.

 

Monday, March 17th is our St. Patrick's Day party.  Please send your child to school wearing green.

 

 

Letter Oo & Number 15

Last week we learned all about the letter Oo with Ollie the Octopus.  On Monday, we read about octagons and made our own Octagon Octopus!  Through the week we learned about opposites and played many fun games using opposite words.  You can see in the pictures below, we played a game called Action.  Each team was given a set of picture cards of an opposite combination and they had to find the appropriate props to act them out while their friends guessed.  We had so much fun with this game!  We also learned about the number 15!  We learned how to write and spell the number fifteen and focused on how to use tally marks to display this number along with counting by 5's. 

 

At the end of our week we all came to school wearing our pajamas to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  We thank you all for your wonderful donations!  We also celebrated our 100th day of school! We started our day with some simple 100 hunts and making the number 100 with 100 pennies.  Once everyone arrived we followed the 100's all the way upstairs and found a room filled with 100 Day  activities.  We made silly hats with 100 dots, we worked together to finish a 100 piece puzzle,  we all tried the 100 cup stack challenge, played our Hershey Kiss Number Match, and also played the Roll & Race to 100 game!  We thank all the families for bringing in a special snack! The children loved counting by 10's all the way to 100 during snack!

 

Click on the link to see all the photos from our 100th day of school!

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This week:

 

This week we learning letter Pp & number 16.  Through the week we will be reading many Dr. Seuss books and will be having a fun Friday trying some green eggs and ham!  If anyone would like to come in to read their favorite children's book or their child's favorite book please email me directly.  Just a reminder, progress reports went home in the folders Friday.  Please make sure to read through the report and send the top page and the signed report back to school by Tuesday so I can schedule a conference with you.