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Saturday, September 15, 2012

FANTASTIC FALL Y'ALL!

This week was all about FALL FUN!
The students marble painted using fall colors.  When the paint dried they cut out their leaves.  You can see our fall tree in the next picture.

We read several non-fiction books about squirrels.  The students picked and read the card to decide if the card should be glued inside or outside of the circle map.  We also learned about deciduous trees and evergreens. The students loved to say the word DECIDUOUS - so much fun using BIG words!

We conducted an experiment to see how veins work in plants.  The students recorded their results!

More fall leaves!

This isn't a fall activity, but I had to take a picture of my froggy friends working hard to build and read this week's popcorn words.  "FROG"TASTIC!!!

I LOVE, LOVE LOVE pocket charts and so does the class.  It makes reading FUN!

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 FALL FUN UNIT and 

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Chicka Chicka FUN!

This week the students enjoyed a week of CHICKA CHICKA FUN!
The students painted CHICKA TREES added a AABB border pattern and then added coconut names.  We compared long names and short names.
Painting Chicka Trees!
Gluing letters on coconuts
Playing Coconut Sounds

Working on putting letters in ABC order.  This was quite a challenge!

Is the coconut left or right?

Counting Coconuts!
We sorted vowels and consonants!

We made a class book about our names!

We found the vowels and consonants in our names!

We substituted sounds to make new words!
 We used this equipment to report about our coconut.
WOW! A coconut floats!

 We completed our CHICKA FUN eating this!  The recipe can be found at Making Learning Fun.

We watched this video!

Saturday, October 22, 2011

GHOSTLY MATH FREEBIE

Pick up some cute marshmallow ghosts to do this fun and yummy math activity.



Grab this at my Teachers Notebook Store.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

FALL FUN!

We have been learning about FALL!  We focused on the colors of fall, leaves, and squirrels.  Look at all the FALL FUN we had!
We marble painted leaves.

The leaves were added to our tree.  Too cute!
Leaves Pocket Chart used for talking about fall colors, leaf shapes, and rhyming words.

The students cut leaf shapes to make a leaf mobile.
We labeled a leaf!

This is our Celery Experiment to observe how veins work in plants.

We recorded our BEFORE results and will record our AFTER results on Monday.
After reading about squirrels, the students read phrases (with a little help) to create this circle map.

A cute idea that goes along with the book, Nuts to You! by Lois Elhert is making a class book.

The students make tree bark rubbings for the book page.  Then I take a picture of each student getting ready to eat a nut.  This picture goes in the hole of the tree.  Finally each student writes the sentence, Nuts to their name!  Adorable!
Here's another pocket chart.  We are working on recognizing color words.
Graphing Fall Colors  - The students grab a handful of red, yellow, orange, and brown unifix cubes then graph and record their results.

Five Frame Leaf Counting - The students practiced counting on from five and recorded their results.

Roll, Read and Color - The students used a die to roll a number, then found the number word on a leaf and colored it using a fall color.
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