Uppercase letters, big books, things I've learned

This morning after looking for our letter of the week, we looked at all the uppercase letters in the morning message and tried to figure out why they were uppercase: name or beginning a sentence? 

 

 We enjoyed reading big books together this afternoon.

 

One of our math centers this week was playing with dominoes.  One thing I've learned over the last few years.  Always let them play with the manipulatives before requiring them to use them for a specific task.  So some children built towers, some made rivers and trees, some made lines to knock down (great fine motor activity!), some pretended the dominoes were people....and everyone had fun. 

 

Thank you!

Thank you, parents, for placing Scholastic orders online!  Every time someone does, I get a $3 book coupon to use for the class.  Look what came in the mail yesterday!  All the books in the picture above were free, compliments of you ordering books (near the beginning of the year).  THANK YOU!  Below are more new books for our classroom, some of which were purchased with bonus points, another perk for our classroom, so thank you for using Scholastic.  New books are always so exciting!

I don't understand why, when these were both oriented the same way, blogger rotated one of them.