Thursday, March 24, 2016
Monkeys
Today was a day that was filled with monkeys. I read a short book about monkeys, but it was our activities that were particularly fun. The children were so engrossed in the activities that they did not get to all of the ones I had planned. I promised them that I would rearrange tomorrow's plans so that they could continue with the activities.
I taught the children how to draw and paint monkeys using shapes and lines that they could draw. The painters in the class were so focused and spent a fair length of time on their art work as they created monkeys.
Do you remember the scuba divers the children made with their faces? Today, I showed them how to make monkeys with their faces. The children who were busy with this activity enjoyed seeing their faces turn into monkey faces on monkey bodies. Some of them were howling with laughter... just like howler monkeys!
If you haven't had a chance to see the children's rainforest bulletin board, you should swing by the classroom before I take it down next week. The animals that the children have made are decorating it.
On Friday, I will be leaving early since I have a flight to catch to Washington DC. Tom and I are spending Easter with our eldest daughter and her husband. I will be out on Monday. I will see everyone on Tuesday.
I taught the children how to draw and paint monkeys using shapes and lines that they could draw. The painters in the class were so focused and spent a fair length of time on their art work as they created monkeys.
Do you remember the scuba divers the children made with their faces? Today, I showed them how to make monkeys with their faces. The children who were busy with this activity enjoyed seeing their faces turn into monkey faces on monkey bodies. Some of them were howling with laughter... just like howler monkeys!
If you haven't had a chance to see the children's rainforest bulletin board, you should swing by the classroom before I take it down next week. The animals that the children have made are decorating it.
On Friday, I will be leaving early since I have a flight to catch to Washington DC. Tom and I are spending Easter with our eldest daughter and her husband. I will be out on Monday. I will see everyone on Tuesday.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Welcome March
We welcomed March by talking about some of the happenings in March... birthdays and the coming of spring. Today, the children realized that I removed the weather graph and replaced it with a 'weather calendar'. We will be tracking the lion and lamb days for the month of March to see if the poem, March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, is correct. Since this morning was cold, the children decided that it was a lion day. We decided that the children will use the temperature as the guide for determining lion and lamb days.
Our question of the week was: How do you feel on rainy days?. Most of the children felt happy because they like to splash puddles. They graphed their answers and talked about the data on the graph. Following this, they drew and wrote in their journals. Their task was to draw a picture that matched their sentence: I feel ______ when it rains because ____________. I was very pleased with how the children are drawing with details so that their pictures can ell a story.
The children looked at the unified cubes that some of their peers assembled yesterday to compare the rainfall in deserts, Williamstown and rainforests. When they saw the different lengths of unify cubes (9, 44, 100) they understood how much it rains in the rainforest.
We continued to review the letters XYZ.
Tomorrow's conferences will be in the classroom,
Our question of the week was: How do you feel on rainy days?. Most of the children felt happy because they like to splash puddles. They graphed their answers and talked about the data on the graph. Following this, they drew and wrote in their journals. Their task was to draw a picture that matched their sentence: I feel ______ when it rains because ____________. I was very pleased with how the children are drawing with details so that their pictures can ell a story.
The children looked at the unified cubes that some of their peers assembled yesterday to compare the rainfall in deserts, Williamstown and rainforests. When they saw the different lengths of unify cubes (9, 44, 100) they understood how much it rains in the rainforest.
We continued to review the letters XYZ.
Tomorrow's conferences will be in the classroom,
Friday, February 12, 2016
Red and Pink Celebration
We were a blast of red and pink today! Not only did the children enjoy the healthy red and pink snack food at snack. Boy, did they eat well! We worked the red and pink clothes into a math lesson. The children graphed entered data on a graph to figure out how many people wore red, pink, both colors, or neither color. After the graph was completed they all looked at the graph and drew conclusions about the data. They enjoyed this math activity very much.
To conclude the brief study of the Sonoran Desert, I read The Magic School Bus Gets all Dried Up. I asked the children to raise their hands when they heard something they knew as I read the book. I was rewarded with many hands being raised as I read the book. The kids felt pretty good about all of their newly learned desert knowledge. They painted resist pictures of what they enjoyed learning about the desert. The pictures were sent home today.
Have a nice vacation week. I am hoping that a week of us all being away from each other will give us a chance to get healthy. Someone asked me my plans for the vacation. My plans are for me to get healthy.
To conclude the brief study of the Sonoran Desert, I read The Magic School Bus Gets all Dried Up. I asked the children to raise their hands when they heard something they knew as I read the book. I was rewarded with many hands being raised as I read the book. The kids felt pretty good about all of their newly learned desert knowledge. They painted resist pictures of what they enjoyed learning about the desert. The pictures were sent home today.
Have a nice vacation week. I am hoping that a week of us all being away from each other will give us a chance to get healthy. Someone asked me my plans for the vacation. My plans are for me to get healthy.
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