Happy New Year!

We started the New Year with fun! We used water colors to add details to our pictures.
We explored "snow" (white rice) in the science center.

In the blocks center we have had fun building race car tracks.

We're working hard to get ready for 1st grade; it's only a few months away! With this in mind, we're playing handwriting games.

This week was our 1st week estimating. Every week, we have a new jar with candy to estimate. We have the entire week to make an estimate. On Friday, we count the objects. The person who correctly estimates or is the closest, gets to take home the jar of candy. If we try to estimate, we get to taste a piece of the candy.

We've enjoyed learning how to work in the listening center. It replaced the fine motor center.

Sharing our journals with the class has been exciting.

Catching Up! Way Up!

We ended 2010 with a bang! One of their favorite centers was Santa's Workshop. They had such much fun building toys.

In the writing center, they sorted pictures by their beginning letter sound.

Create a Christmas tree in art

After each country we studied we enjoyed eating a food from that country.

We also enjoyed celebrating birthdays! (It was also Mrs. Robinson's birthday!)

Choo-Choo

We had fun learning how to use our word building sticks.
Our marble work's designs continue to get better.

In home living, we've had fun decorating for Christmas.

We had a great time learning to play an addition and subtraction game.

Their favorite center this week was blocks because they were able to build a train track.

A Nutty Week!

This week we continued our unit of study on fall.

In science, we estimated how many nuts each container would hold.

Dramatic arts has changed to the camping center.

After estimating, we counted the nuts to find out how many nuts each container actually held.

We wrote a descriptive story about our field trip.

In math, we built scarecrows using pattern blocks and then recreated the scarecrow using paper pattern blocks.

In the writing center, we practiced writing high frequency words.

A Day on the Farm!

In October we enjoyed our 1st field trip to West Oak Farm Days! It was a blustery, chilly, fall day, but we still had fun! The kids loved finding their way through the maze and we didn't loose anyone!
We brushed the cows.

I was happy that no one lost a finger to the horse!

It was a sight watching us load and unload from the hayride. I thought the "van" seat was comical for a hayride! There's a 1st for everything.

We enjoyed playing games at several of the centers.

Biscuits and Apple Butter

The kids loved peeling and cutting apples to make apple butter.

We also made homemade butter to go with our homemade biscuits!