Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Some SEUSSTASTIC fun! (So many books, so little time)

Fox In Sox
We learned about NONSTANDARD measurement.  They loved that. 
I believe someone said their friend was 61 poker chips long!



The Cat in the Hat





One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish



We put goldfish in the bag and did an estimation.  The actual total was 160!



Green Eggs and Ham.  First we did the recipe.

Next we went to the kitchen and cooked eggs together.  We were going to have ham but ummmm it was naturally green if you know what I mean.  We had to skip ham.




They loved them so much, we made a second batch but asked to make them blue!
They made their own "green eggs" and we wrote what they did not like.  They were interesting!


The Foot Book speared our discussions on opposites.  They are doing quite well with them!
 
We graphed our favorite Seuss Book. One Fish was the winner.


We watched The Lorax and tied it into our lesson on giving and taking in Religion.  It was a cool connection they made. 

With Horton Hears a Who we talked about being a great friend even when it is hard.  Every year it is always so tough to narrow down the week, but we have to.  I hope that your children came home and told you not just about the story, but about Seuss himself.  We started with a kids biography about Seuss where they learned he was NOT actually a doctor.  They were very confused. LOL.

Keep working with rhyming at home.  Keep asking them to measure using things like cans and markers and anything else you can think of.

TB :)

Friday, March 13, 2015

March 2015



Mrs. Boyle and her teaching buddy at the big conference.


A visit from Mrs. Boyle's guinea pig Oreo.  We compared him to the groundhogs we studied last minute.


Our friend of the week of the week... LM

Spelling our rhyming words with playdoh.



Being responsible for our messes.


Addicted to floor puzzles!

Math and Science

Learning 1:1 correspondence and adding using dice and stones.


New geoboards for making shapes.

Loving the visual 10 frame to make and see bigger numbers as well as visualize addition.

Milk Magic Science with LM and mom.

Bowl of milk and food coloring.  Drop a bit of detergent and watch the movement!

Very cool interactive magnetic science with VT and her mom.


Here the children sorted and made hypothesis's on what is magnetic and why.  Then they tested out their ideas.

100th Day of School!!!

We did everything from making hats to...


Counting to 100 with different items to...

deciding what we would do with $100 to...


exercising and looking at 100 in different forms! 

Finally, some photos (#1) January

Simple Lines

Piet Mondrian


How do you stand up next to an emperor penguin?


The Shedd Trip




Drop Everything and Read.  Try it for 10 minutes at home at least once a week.  It is a GREAT independent reading skill.


Somebody is a HUGE Sparky fan!