We love to measure!

In Math, we are learning about measurement. We learned that we can measure with lots of different tools, like cubes that connect together that we call Unifix Cubes. We went around our classroom to measure different items and then drew them into boxes on a piece of paper with how many cubes long they were. We had lots of fun with this!

Our erupting volcanoes!

Every Thursday we have a block of time for a Science experiment. This Thursday we had fun making erupting mini volcanoes! At our tables we had shallow bins with baking soda in it. In cups we mixed vinegar and food coloring. With droppers, we dropped the vinegar and food coloring mixture. When the mixture got to the baking soda, it fizzed and ate away at the soda to make it look like mini volcanoes! We had a blast!

Happy Groundhog Day!

Happy (belated) Groundhog Day! I apologize for being a slacker on the blogging department. It actually was due to the fact that I was having a hard time uploading pictures and it kept telling me I had an error. I finally figured out that if I upload them each separately it works. So far, the problem is solved! I will post again soon!


We made a groundhog scene for our groundhog to come out of his burrow in the snow to see if he saw his shadow or not!
We read stories about groundhogs.
We did some shadow play to understand why shadows are made.
We predicted whether Phil would see his shadow or not and then graphed them.

Daily 5

When the students come inside from recess, and start our Daily 5. This program focuses on fostering independence during literacy time through modeling the five components of the program. The can read to themselves, read with a friend, listen to a story on CD, work on their writing or do word work. We are loving the Daily 5 and so are the kids! Ask your child to tell you what their favorite choice is! Visit the website for more information http://www.the2sisters.com. Here are some pictures of the students doing the Daily 5:


Writing on our white board. The other side is a white board/pocket chart combo.
Our Word Work Station. Students can pick from the bins and work on whichever Word Work skill is in the bin.


Reading to each other.
Working on writing.
Listening to a story on CD.
Read to themselves.
Doing Word Work.

Snowmen At Night

We read the story Snowmen at Night and made masks to act it out. In the story, the snowmen come alive and do things like skate, sled or have snowball fights when it is nighttime and no one can see them. The students pretended they were doing all of those things like the snowmen in the story. They had a blast!

Letter Party!

Today we celebrated being finished with our Fundations letter study. We have learned all the letters and now we are ready to move on to to sounding more words out and writer's and reader's workshop. So to celebrate, we had a letter scavenger hunt where we had to find hidden coloring pages in the room then color them. We also got to pick a balloon out of a bag, identify the letter and something that starts with that letter, then at the end we all got to pop our balloons! Some of us were able to sit on them, or stomp on them to pop them but some of us had to use a pencil :)To finish our party we got to watch the video we made of our letters made out of objects starting with the letter. For example, one student who had the letter A made it out of airplanes. See our previous post for the actual video.

Letter Aniomoto Video