Great Graphing!

We are learning about graphing in Math and the importance of getting information and showing it in a graph. We had a lot of fun graphing Lucky Charms cereal (made sure to tell the kids to not sneak a bite since they were used last year too!). They worked as a table group to pass around a bag with the Lucky Charm marshmellows in it. They picked out one marshmellow and told their table which they picked so they all could make an "X" on the graph above that marshmellow picture. After we were done, they had to get information from their graph such as, 1) How many marshmellows did their bag have total and, 2) Which marshmellow had more? We got our stats and wrote them on the board to compare!

Sci-Fri Volcanoes!

We had our first Sci-Fri experiment! Every Friday, we are going to do a fun hands-on Science experiment. We will call it Sci-Fri (for Science Friday :) We will talk about the experiment before we start and be able to hypothesize what might happen. Then we will dive in! We had so much fun with our first one! We had a bin full of Baking Soda and cups filled with vinegar and food coloring. With droppers, we dropped the vinegar/food coloring mixture and watched what happened - the vinegar meeting with the Baking soda made bubbles almost like it was erupting like a volcano! In the end we were allowed to touch the mixture to see what it felt like (most said it was sand-like and soft) and then we poured the rest of the vinegar mixture in to really watch it all bubble! Stay tuned for more Sci-Fri experiments!!

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Sorting

The kids did such a great job working together to sort buttons of different shapes, sizes, and different number of holes. They had to work collaboratively together to decide how they were going to sort their buttons. They really worked well together and as a team. They were given the opportunity to show three different ways to sort these buttons and all of them did an excellent job!

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We Love Daily Five!

Hard to work doing the Daily 5!

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Five Senses Smell Test

We used our sense of smell to guess six different smells in covered containers. They worked as table (so well might I add!) to pass the containers around, taking turns smelling them, then discussing which smell they thought it was. They all pre-cut the pictures of the possible smells (pickle, peanut butter, perfume, lime, popcorn and coffee) and matched them in the box with the number that matched the number on each container. They did such a good job and worked so well together!

Daily 5 at a Glance

We are in full swing with our Daily 5!
Here are some pictures of the students hard at work Reading to Self, Reading to Others, Word Work, Writing, and Listening to Reading.

Letter Sorting

The students were able to sort different letters onto their Letter Sorting Mat.

Letter and Number Fishing!

The students had so much fun using a play fishing rod to "catch" some fish with letters and numbers on them. This helped us practice our letter and number recognition. We could also give the letter sounds if we knew them for the letters we caught! It is now a center in our Daily 5 Word Work station.