GROUNDHOG FUN

We painted groundhog predictions.  These directions are from Making Learning Fun.

They came out cute even though they are upside-down.

Here's a recording sheet of our shadow experiment.

THE LAST OF WINTER'S WONDERS

 We are just about finished learning about winter's wonders.  I apologize for the pictures.  I've been taking pictures with my iphone and sometimes they just won't rotate no matter what I do.  It's exasperating!  Does anyone else have this problem?!

We read and compared two versions of, The Mitten.

Look at our matching mittens!  We used these for retelling The Mitten.

The students wrote about what's in their mitten.

We played Marshmallow Fair Shares.

 

We learned about polar animals.  Here are the penguin pals we made.

Here are our cool polar bears. 

We did a blubber experiment!  The students took turns placing their hand in ice water.

Now the students put their hand in the ice water wearing a blubber mitt.

Here is the recording sheet for our experiment.

The students enjoyed playing with penguins and icebergs.

We made snow!

HOORAY FOR 100!

On Friday, we celebrated 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL!

We counted 100 fruit loops for our 100 DAY BREAKFAST!  We colored our numbers to match the amount on our string each day.  We discovered it took us 10 days to get to 100.

Eating 100 pieces of cereal!  Our laminating machine is broken so we couldn't use our 100 Day placemats :-(

Zero the Hero brought us a surprise!

It was a cookie cake with 100 M&M's!

Zero the Hero brought us gumballs, too!  We will estimate and count the gumballs.  How long will this take?!

This is the last page to our Zero the Hero book.

Look at our 100 Day Bottle Collection!  We had some interesting things collected.  Someone brought 100 wiggly worms!

Each student invited a guest to join us for some 100 day fun in the afternoon.  Here is the checklist of Zero the Hero stations.

The students had to turn the number 100 into something.

The students stamped 10 picture stamps to 10 strips of paper, then glued the strips to a sentence strip to make a HOORAY FOR 100 hat.

The students made the book cover for their Zero the Hero book.

They played Spin It to Win It!  This game can be found at Wild About K Kids.

Students practiced skip counting by 10's while punching the balloon. FUN, FUN, FUN!!!

The students learned many ways to write 100.

The students could help put together a 100 piece puzzle.  This station was completed early.  Apparently, I have lots of parents who love to do puzzles!  Some of the froggy friends were disappointed about not having a chance to help with the puzzle, but I told them we will do again next week - just the froggy friends :-)

Working on the 100 Day Hat.

Writing 100 around the world!

Playing Spin It to Win It!

Some parents having fun putting the puzzle together.

Working on the 100 Grid Mystery Picture.  I forgot to take a picture of this station completed :-(

My 100 is...

As you can see, we had a wonderful, busy day celebrating the 100 way.

HOORAY FOR 100!!!

ICE SKATING AND A SNOWBALL FIGHT

Even though it doesn't snow where we live, we celebrated a SNOW MUCH FUN DAY!

Here we are ice skating!  The children had fun skating to fast/slow and stop/go music. As the children got used to skating I asked them to skate backwards, sideways, etc.

Here are the students throwing snowballs at each other.  The snowballs were flying so fast!

Here's our snowball box!

Lots of snowballs!

The students each wrote 4 popcorn words on scrap paper for the snowball fight.  After the snowball fight the students drank hot chocolate and read the popcorn words written on the snowballs.  What a fun way to read and review!