Hooray for the USA!

Look at all the patriotic fun we had this past week!

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The students followed picture directions to paint a bald eagle.  They used their listening skills to assemble the liberty bell.

I do this directed drawing every year and the end result is sooooo cute!

Did you know the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France?  We assembled these cuties after reading several stories about this US symbol.

We loved making the 3-D Washington Monuments!

This student is wearing her 3 cornered hat just like George Washington!

Here's a close-up of the notes tucked inside Abraham Lincoln's hat.  The kids just loved writing on sticky notes!

Aren't they adorable?!

HOORAY FOR THE USA!!!

SNOW MUCH FUN AND MORE!

Wintery fun for everyone!

The students are practicing fair shares with marshmallows!

Subtraction is fun with this game!

The students created symmetrical snowflakes!

We learned about MLK and did this directed drawing.  Too cute!

We celebrated Donuts with Dad on Friday.  It was great fun to spend the morning with the dads.

Look at our dads!

The students will practice telling time using these apps.

 We ended the week of wintery fun ice skating and having a snowball fight.

After the snowball fight the students opened their snowballs to read popcorn words.

What's Up!

Hello!  I'm back!  Here's what we've been up to.

Snowman Names - found this idea on Pinterest.  After assembling our snowmen, the students used descriptive words to write about their snowman.  Each day I will read a few LOST POSTERS and the students will have to find the snowman by listening to the description.

We have been learning about 2-D and 3-D shapes!  The children are making 2-D and 3-D snowmen for a fun way to review.

We made tissue snowflakes for our deciduous tree.  The children spun a pattern to create an icicle.

The students wrote and illustrated the steps to making a Snazzy Snowman.  They followed their recipe to assemble and eat a snowman.  Delicious!

Look at our mitten fun!

We wrote resolutions for the new year, practiced counting by 5's & counting down from a number.

My son visited the froggy friends during his 2 week leave from Camp Pendleton.  We look forward to keeping in touch by becoming pen pals.

That's all for now!!!

Native Americans & Other Stuff

This week we learned about Native Americans.   We are having fun learning our Native American names...mine is Chief Big Foot!  We will call each other by our names for the month of November.  The students are earning feathers just like some Native Americans.  We learned how to play Stick Dice, a Native American game.

 

 The students are learning to work together and take turns.

We worked on our critical thinking skills with this math activity.  The students had to figure out how many triangles, squares, trapezoids, and hexagons they could make using a certain number of popsicle sticks.

Pumpkins & Scarecrows

  Pumpkin Fun!

We mixed yellow and red to make orange.  Then we painted a pumpkin shape.

Look at our pumpkin patch!

Run, run as fast as you can!  You can't catch me!  I'm the pumpkin man!

 

The students drew and wrote about how they would carve Jack-O.

 

 

The students wrote and illustrated how to carve a pumpkin using this form.

We are writing about our pumpkin discoveries!

Spice Cake + Pumpkin = Pumpkin Muffins

Yummy!!!

The students and their guests are enjoying quality time together on Halloween.

We read scarecrow stories and planted a pattern.

The students are in small groups playing learning games with their friends.

SPOOKY SPIDERS & a FREEBIE

Some spooky spider fun!

Spider Tree Map

Label a Spider

 

Making a spider!

Looks yummy!!!

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