A Tree for all Seasons

In Math, we're working on skip counting.

 We traced our hands and glued them to popsicle sticks.

Then we used them to help us count by 5s and 10s.

 To count by 2s, we used shoes!

We talked about adjectives all week.  On Thursday, we ate some popcorn and used our senses to come up with describing words about the popcorn. {source}

We learned about Maps last week as well. 

 We talked about and illustrated our planet, continent, country, state, town, and street. 

 Then we made our illustrations into a flipbook.

Last up is Science.  We talked about the different seasons all week.

 Trees go through many changes during the year.

 We used all kinds of art supplies to create a "Year Round Tree."

Check out our finished products!

Change It!

This week we learned a new game, called Change It.  You start with a word, then change 1 letter at a time, to make a new word.

We played as a class first and then played by ourselves in stations, later.

A couple weeks ago, we voted on who we'd like to come and read to our class.  Coach Myers won, so she came this week and read us The Pout Pout Fish in the Big Dark. 

We also worked on segmenting words.  We segmented our names and then sorted them by the number of segments.

We finished up our unit on weather this week.  On Tuesday we talked about clouds, so we used paper to create our own clouds.  Here's what our clouds turned into...

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Thursday, we had a special visitor named Dowser Dan.  He taught us all about the water cycle, water conservation, and why water is important.

Ask me how I can help save water at home!

A Rainbow full of Nouns

We've been learning all about nouns.  Nouns can be a person, a place, or a thing.  We worked with our groups and each got a strip of colored paper.  We had to draw "things" that matched the color of our paper.

Then we taped them all together to make a rainbow!

Here's some close ups of some of our "things."

To finish it off, we wrote people and places on each of the clouds.

Meet Preston!

Meet Preston the Parrot! Preston will be part of our "First Mate of the Week" activities.  Look for Preston to be visiting your house soon!

This week's learning

Our spelling words this week all had the short a sound.

So we made some "Black Cat Hats" and wrote our words on them.

In math, we've been working on greater than and less than.

We made these alligators to help us practice. 

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The alligator always wants to eat the bigger, or greater, number.

The alligator has the words "is greater than" and "is less than" on his belly.  This helps us to get the wording right.

Check out this video.  We LOVE this song!

In Science, we've been learning all about weather.

One of our discussions was on wind.  Wind is helpful for cooling us off and making energy, but sometimes it can be harmful as well.

We made windsocks so that we'd be able to tell which was the wind was blowing, and how hard.

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We also talked about Christopher Columbus all week.

We don't have to come to school on Monday, thanks to him! :)

On Friday, we made Christopher Columbus' face with a paper plate.

Back in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue!