Off to DC!

I am off to Washington, DC with a group of teachers from our building to officially receive the National Blue Ribbon Award our school was awarded this year!  Please call the office if you have any changes or need anything!  See you Thursday.

There is a Witch in our classroom! Eeeek

There is a witch in our classroom!  Thank you to Scott's "Nana" for coming and reading us a fun Halloween story.  Also, a big thank you to all of our other moms who helped out with the Halloween classroom party! 

Symmetry and Masking Tape

Wow, it is so fun to see kids laugh!  Today we worked on symmetry.  We started with simple shapes, drawing the line of symmetry..... etc.  Then the fun part comes!  :0)  People!  Can we draw a line of symmetry on a person?  Oh yeah and the laughing begins! :)  We also painted pictures too!

What is in the Witch's Soup!

We are getting ready for Halloween, so we read a book called Spooky Hour.  The story works on numbers 1-12.  After reading the story we played a little game called....What is in the Witch's Soup?  The kids are in pairs with two dice.  They roll, count the dots, and color the matching number on the Witch's bowl.   I tell them that if they roll a number that they have already colored, they just pass the dice to their partner.   They are always sooooo surprised when they roll the same number,  once....twice...three times....!  :)  hahahha

Happy Birthday Jacob!

Happy 6th Birthday big Dude!

Stick Your Nose in a Corner - Fun With Shapes

We all remember that century old punishment....stick your nose in a corner, I just love to use it when we are working on sides and corners of shapes.  They totally get it if you tell them to stick their nose in a corner! :) 

So like always we start with sides, and then we move to corners.  We talk about that the corner is the place where the two sides meet.  Now let's make it with our hands.  Side, side, and then ....... put your nose in the "corner."  Yeah  They just giggle.  :)

Two Proud Dudes

They finally finished the giant 3D floor puzzle!  Way to go boys!

Pass, Pass, Pass the Purse

The kids love this game.  We have all kinds of things in a "purse," and we sing this catchy little tune....."Pass, pass, pass the purse, pass it round and round. We're looking for a special sound and look at what we found!"  Have them sing it for you! :)  When the song stops, the person holding the purse pulls out an object and tells us what it is and what sound it starts with.  I have them do the gesture too just to make sure they know it! :)  They always get a good laugh when someone pulls out the "t-t-toilet!"

Pattern Fun!

Today we painted patterns!!  The kids just love it when I say we are painting, so why not make it a learning experience too!  There is such power in "picking" your own colors! :)  They have to ask again, "Can we really pick what ever color we want?"  Wow!

Body Shapes

I told the kids we were going to build shapes with our bodies.....they hit the roof.   First, with a lot of excitement.......hooping and hollering........and then it hit them, "How?"  I have to laugh because there is always a true look of confusion.