A fantastic class!!

Wow!  What a great group of children!  We get many comments throughout the week about how well we listen and behave.  I am very proud of this group. They are hard workers, kind and are doing a terrific job everyday!  Here are some photos from the week!

Work boards ~ The children are matching lowercase letters to the uppercase letters on an apple tree. 

 This one is owls on a tree.  Matching uppercase & lowercase letters.  

 The children identified the letter names and some of the sounds.  

 Wikki sticks ~ The kids are making words & numbers with wikki sticks.  We had fun practicing our sight words and writing our names too.  

 Excited to share the finished product!  

 Math check up ~ We have finished Topic 1 and were checking on understanding the number concepts for 0-5.  Here are two children using chips to show a way to make five!  

 Games were opened and introduced.  The children are very excited about the different games available to play.  It is a great way to work on social skills like turn taking, sharing, problem solving and communicating with one another! 

 Zingo!  Lots of turn taking and sharing occurring here.  

 Spill the Beans ~ Who is going to tip the pot first? Love the excitement in their faces! 

Expressing their creativity with play-do. 

 It was all business in this house area today.  

Discovering with our senses!  We have been talking about using our senses to discover things.  Today we worked with a partner to discover what was in our brown paper bag.  The children were only able to use their sense of touch, smell & hearing. We gave them time to discover and then they shared with the group what was in their bag.  We used "adjectives" to describe what we heard, smelled and felt.  We also discovered that our sense of touch was most helpful with this task.  

 OOHH, what can it be? "It feels hard." 

 Surprised faces..."It feels squishy." 

 Not to sure what to think.  These boys got a really tricky one! 

 The look of excitement when he figured it out!  

 Eeww..."It feels a little wet and my finger got a little red." 

 The kids were very excited about guessing and seeing if they were right!  We had a lot of fun with this activity. 

 First All School Meeting for this group.  We did a terrific job listening during our school meeting.  

 Walk the room math activity.  This is one of my favorites.  I hide cards around the room and the children walk around and record what they find.  This particular activity was based on counting objects and writing the correct number.  It is a great way to get the children to count, record and move all at the same time! They did a terrific job with it!  

 SUPER READERS!  The children decorated superhero masks that we are keeping in our browsing box.  Some of the children love wearing them to help them read!  It's like having a "superpower".  It is really cute to see them put them on and read away! 

 Practicing one of our Daily Five rounds "Read to Self".  

 More wiki sticks! 

Have a wonderful weekend!