Thank you for checking out our Tuesday!
A few quick reminders...
Valentines to give to friends...Our class will have our valentine parties on Wednesday, February 12 and Thursday, February 13. Prior to the parties, each child will be making a valentine bag, at school. Please have your child prepare 21 valentines at home (1 for each child in the class) and bring them on 2/12 or 2/13. See email sent on Friday, 1/17 with additional details and tips!
There is NO school Friday, February 14 for teacher professional development.
There is NO school Monday, February 17 in observation of Presidents’ Day.
Here we go...
Our friends were excited to see the extra hearts to cut out and decorate...even more excited when they found out they could take them home if they wanted!
A little teamwork, planning and working together, to make a lego city!
Choo! Choo!
We were surprised to see that our January pie graph had only three colors on it...one being red! Which means that we had two SNOWY days in January! Our friends hope we see more "red" in February ;o)
Wiggle worms arrived with penguins and lowercase letters! If a wiggle worm was picked...well, you know...let's wiggle!!! (And, it's still hard to stop when Mrs. Mudd says freeze. Good practice in self regulation)
If a penguin was picked...give the letter name and the letter sound (early literacy skills).
Science Time...
Sometimes when the weather is very cold, bodies of water (large and small) will freeze and turn in to ice. We studied a container of ice cubes and a block of ice. Some things our friends noticed:
They both came up to the same spot in the container
They were both ice.
One was a lot of ice cubes.
One was one big chunk.
So, we predicted and had to know...which will melt faster? (Oops...forgot to snap a picture)
Then we had to wait, wait, wait...we checked on each a few times throughout the day. At first it appeared the block was melting a bit faster. However, as we checked before and after lunch, the ice cubes seemed to be in the lead. Ask your child which melted faster by the end of the day!
What a difference 24 hours makes! It felt a bit more like February, but we still had a blast outside!
Time for small groups (centers)!
We read the book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?". As we listened we had to remember the story and "lock" it in our brain! Because...
We then retold the story using felt pieces and a felt board. The ability to recall/retell a familiar story is an early literacy skill.
We improved our letter recognition and writing skills as we wrote winter and valentine words in our journals!
We remembered that not only can we listen to and sing music, we can also dance to it!!! Time for a little dance party to Jim Gill songs!
And the sun was out for outside time #2!!!
Faye took her turn with the favorite book bag! She loved getting to tell us about her favorite book, and showing us her drawing of her favorite part of the book. We ALL enjoyed listening as I read the book to the class! We even found the song on the computer and listened to it while we set up our cots!
During Jesus Time today we heard the story of Jesus calming the sea. The disciples were so scared and worried their boat was going to sink. Jesus woke up and calmed the storm with just his words! We can always look to Jesus when we are scared or worried!
Hope you stop by again tomorrow...
