Snail Races on Blue Day!

Happy blue day! Does your child remember the blue song?

Our sea of blue!

I just loved Levi's character description of Vashti in "The Dot." It bears quite a striking resemblance to Yoda...

Snail Races

We had a blast racing our snails today! They were quite speedy! We had a range of names for them: Speedy, Racer, Speed, and John!

And he's off!

Oops! Wrong direction!

While snail races were going on, Mikaela had fun playing with our worms!

Go! Go! Go!

And we have a winner! 

Happy 10th Day of School!

Woo hoo! We have been in school for 10 days! We were excited to show our tens!

We had a great conversation about place value because we got to make a bundle out of our Popsicle sticks and move the bundle to the tens column.

And we know that 10 fills a ten frame!

We also celebrated yellow day with our yellow song and poem. Can your child sing it to you?

Look at all that yellow!

What are we learning this week?

We are learning so many new things this week!

Our sight words this week are I and see! We are also learning 5 new letters. Help your child review the names and sounds of these letters.

We learned a new reading station today as well! We got to practice 4 apps during our iPad rotation: Raz Kids (books at your child's level), LetterSchool (handwriting), ABC Magic (letter sounds), and Spelling Magic (segmenting and sounds).

And then we practiced our other stations again! These kids were working hard at the writing station.

These kids were writing letters in the sand at Word Work station.

Finally, we had fun all wearing red, learning how to spell the word red and how to sign it! Can your child sing you the red song?

Apples Galore!

We had a great finish to apple week! 

We got to try Apple straws and we all decided that these were delicious! 

Then we tried a slice of red, yellow, and green apple and decided which was our favorite. 

Green and yellow apples tied for favorite!

And we made our applesauce! It made our classroom smell so good all day! We ordered the steps first.

Then we got to eat it this afternoon! Ask your child if they liked it!

Terrific Thursday!

We had a very fun day today! We had some visitors to our classroom today...snails! They are part of our science unit and we will be practicing our observational skills and comparing them to the worms and pill bugs we get in a few weeks. We observed them this morning and then got to touch them this afternoon!

Some of us observed the snails this morning and others read up on snails to learn more!

 Kneque loved holding a snail!

Mikaela loved it too!

Justin was a happy camper to be playing with the snails!

We had so many brave kids who touched the snails!

We observed a snail foaming and realized that they did this when they were scared. Our observations helped us decide this.

Apples

We made apple stained glass today to help us celebrate apple week! We worked so hard to make our apples look delicious!

Your child's apple will be coming home tomorrow! Make sure to check their backpack!

Our Room Is Complete!

I just love getting our room looking like our home! We have been placing our names that we made on the walls and our bulletin board is complete with the letters you all created at home! 

See you tomorrow night for Back to School Night!