We are fantastic writers!

We have been celebrating families by reading stories about families and writing about them too! We are learning to write new words by getting our pencil ready for the first sound, stretching out the sound, and writing the sounds we hear. We love to share our ideas before writing by sitting knee-to-knee. In science we have been learning all about the weather and acting as meterologists and doing experiments. In math we have been learning to add numbers and create ABC patterns.

Measuring the temperature of hot and cold water with thermometers

Writing about the weather in the writing center

In Guided Reading we are learning how to use quotation marks

We are using rain guages in science to measure rainfall

Creating a magic message during writing by adding quotation marks.

Creating a magic message during writing with the pocket chart

Sharing knee-to-knee during writing

Working hard in Guided Writing groups

Learning about the Sh sound in Guided Reading

Conducting a science experiment by testing different fabrics for raincoats

We found sh words in Guided Reading!

We use this reading strategy to read new words!

Weather!

We are learning all about the weather in science. Our favorite story this week was "The Wind Blew" by Pat Hutchins. Students learned to read thermometers and wrote about the weather in their science journals using the Science Word Wall. In reading we are celebrating families and are retelling stories by distinguishing the characters and setting. We are now using verbs in our writing and have begun to plan writing our Reader's Theater Play! In math we are doing a great job learning to add and subtract!

Writing in our science journals!

In this math center we are matching and sorting shapes and creating patterns

In this center we are creating horizontal graphs. This graph answers the question

"what do you want to be when you grow up?"

In this center we are completing addition and subtraction problems

In the Writing Center we used the science word wall to write about the weather!

We are building great reading skills in guided reading!

Creating the "T is for Tie Dye" page of our alphabet books

Writing our own "T" poem. One student extended what they learned in Guided Reading and included quotation marks!

In Social Studies we learned all about school, home, and community rules.

We created our own book of class rules.

We were T detectives this week and searched for words with the beginning T sound!

Science Made Fun!

We had an in-house science field trip this week! Check out the fun pictures! Thank you to Mrs. Maben for volunteering to help!

Making water splash!

Creating crystals

Smelling different scents

Tasting different flavors

Cool crystals!

Creating rainbows with crystals

Beautiful blue crystals!

Creating a volcano!

The volcano erupted!

Creating colors with heat

Check out our math centers! We are sorting shapes

We can read color words now!

We added the R page to our Alphabet book. R is for Ribbon!

We pass the magic marker to write our own "R poem"

Look at our R's we made with colorful ribbon!

The week of Mimi the Mouse!

This week we learned all about the "M" sound, by learning the "Mimi the Mouse" song and writing our own "M" poem too! We have been making predictions as we read, and we are developing some great writing strategies in Writer's Workshop! In science we learned all about insects, including the life cycle of a moth and the parts of an insect. We can't wait for the in-house field trip next week, when we will have real scientists leading experiments. Check out our photos to see the skills we are building in math centers!

During calendar our calendar helper leads a month song, counts the days, writes the date, and finds the correct cards for today, yesterday, and tomorrow by looking at the beginning sounds.

Our morning helper reads our schedule for the day

In this math center we are practicing our color words

In this math center we are coloring the letters red and the numbers green

In this math center we are sorting big and little acorns

In this math center we are practicing ABBA patterns

"Look I wrote made the September calendar in the Writing Center!"

Being word detectives and finding words that start with /m/

Classmates share their work in the Writing Center

We found elephants in the dramatic play center!

Creating AB patterns in this math center

Sorting by color and shape in this math center

AB patterns with buttons!

ABC pattern!

Science and math connection! Patterns with insects!

Making some creative jewlery with beautiful patterns

Our construction worker teaches us about road signs during Social Studies

Making the S page of our Alphabet Book. S is for spaghetti!

Making the M page of our Alphabet Book. M is for marshmallows!