Turkey Day :)

Today was our traditional Thanksgiving feast.  Above is the 'nice' picture of all the cute Pilgrims and Indians, below is a picture of a bunch or turkeys.

 We love our 4th Grade buddies!

 

  

  

 The riveting performance of "I'm Glad I'm Not a Turkey"

 

Buddies!

Our buddies came today and helped us with some research.  Everyone got to pick an animal they wanted to learn more about.  Our buddies did a great job of helping us read and find information.  :)

Happy Friday!

 Our Zero the Hero scrolls now have numbers to 50 and are about the same height as most students.

 Quiet reading :)

 Blowing bubbles with our buddies on a beautiful day.

 alphabet beanbag toss game

Question of the day: favorite bear (yesterday) and a survey about bats.  Did your child tell you anything about bats?

Funky Friday

 Today was Funky Friday! 

 In our morning message we found lots of letter r's and tried to figure out all the sounds it made.

Math was delicious this morning! After learning about ordinal numbers we ended our color theme with a Brown Bear activity: coloring, sorting, counting,

graphing

 recording our graphs and FINALLY getting to eat the m&m.

 Thanks to Shannon over at Kindergarten Hoppenings for the sorting mat and graphing page!

 At the end of the day our buddies came over and we drew rockets, painted fire, and then painted our rockets and outlined them with black.  Everyone was working for an hour, but no one complained!  Some of the rockets look really cool.  Next week they will get cut out and glued to the fiery backgrounds.

Oh, and remember those uniform shirts that have been in the closet for the last couple weeks?  Pull them out because next week will be a 'normal' week, whatever that means.  :)

Alphabet Party! (and other awesomeness)

I think this may be the first class picture we have.  Thanks to my favorite preschool teacher for popping over and snapping it.

This morning Miss Keili from the AZ Farm Bureau came and read to us about apples and then showed us how to make a Fall and Spring apple tree.  

Today was our alphabet party day!  That means we did lots and lots of literacy activities, like reading alphabet books, singing "Who let the A out?", writing letters, and doing fun alphabet pages (dot to dot, letter matching, missing letters...), and alphabetizing letters.

 It's amazing how much more fun it is to put cards in order if they are first thrown into the air.

  We ate alphabet snacks (and rocked out to the ABC disco)

 We played more games like, alphabet cover-up

 and matching upper and lower case letters

 and put together a really long alphabet puzzle.

 At the end of the day we went outside and made fruit prints with our buddies.  (We used to do apple prints, but after 6 years I was getting a little tired of apple prints, and we saw this really cute idea here so it was time to try something new.  Not sure if we'll add faces though)

 And a little dress-up during centers to end the day.

Happy Friday!

Rainy Day Recess, Buddies, and a Little More Science

Here is the paper we made yesterday.  It turned out really pretty!  (Looks better in real life than in this picture).  The class was pretty excited, and somewhat surprised, that it really did dry and turn into new paper.  They asked when we are going to do it again.   Today in science we were sorting and graphing recyclables.

Since it was raining most of the day today, we had INDOOR RECESS  As a child, I never knew why my teachers were not more excited about this event.  Now I understand.  For times such as these, I pull out a few new toys.  We took out the Super Fort.  I don't tell them how to use it though... that's for them to figure out!  First they figured out how the pieces connected.

Then they figured out how to make it a little more 3-dimensional.

Eventually it did look like a fort and they figured out how to connect the colorful sides.
It was an exercise in problem solving and learning to work together.

Our 4th Grade Buddies came over again.  We started with a large group game, and then everyone could choose a puzzle or game.  It was lots of fun.