Wednesday, February 27, 2013

100th Day, Valentines Day, Student Appreciation Day

100th Day
 

Using 100 pegs to make a design on the Light Brite
 
 Building with 100 blocks
 
 We are 100 days smarter!!
 
 Here are their capes with 100 items on them!

They filled a 10 frame up with "gumballs" and added all 100 to the gumball machine


We made portraits of what we would look like when we were 100 years old



Working on adding 10 dots to 10 different colors of paper strips to make 100 dots for our 100th day hats


We also made necklaces out of 100 fruit loops and covered a "pizza" with 100 toppings.  However, my camera is not cooperating and will not load some of the pictures.  All these activities helped the students count to 100 by ones and tens!
 
 
Valentines Day!
 
We were busy using candy hearts to practice math skills!
Sorting by color



 
 Making simple and complex patterns


 
 Tallying how many of each color they had



 
 Learning about even and odd numbers. 
They figured out if they had a even or odd amount of candy hearts.

 
 Practicing counting by tens



 
 Graphing to determine which color they had the most of



We played two different versions of this game.  First we rolled the dice and covered the number they rolled.  First person to cover up all the numbers won.  Then they started learning how to add numbers together.  They rolled two dice and counted how many dots were showing.  Then they covered that number up.  First one to cover up all the numbers won!

 
Student Appreciation Day: Catholic Schools Week
 
We went to Slinky Action Zone!
 















 
What's Cookin' this week?
 
Social Studies: American Symbols (Statue of Liberty, bald eagle, Liberty Bell, American flag)
Letter: Y
Math: Comparing numbers and 3D shapes
Religion: Easter
Sight Word: Yes/You
Kid Writing: Next week st. will start writing 7 sentences!

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Apples

I thought I had posted this, but apparently I had not.  Here are some pictures from our apple unit and Johnny Appleseed's Birthday.  We learned about the parts of apples, where they grow, what apple trees look like during each of the seasons, etc.
We celebrated Johnny Appleseed's birthday!  We learned who he was and what he did.




 We painted paper plates to make apples after we learned about the parts of an apple
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We tasted red, green, and yellow apples.  We learned each one tastes different and we used descriptive words to explain what they tasted like.  Finally, we graphed the one we liked the most.








Thank you parents for providing an item for our apple party! The kiddos had a GREAT time eating and tasting all the various foods!