B is for Blue Bird

Here are the finished sponge painted bluebirds! We added a Googly eye and a feather for a wing.

Blue Birds

They are not finished yet,  but here are our sponge painted birds.

B is for Bubble Wrap

This week we are talking about the letter B. We fed letter muncher pictures that start with a B and painted a B using blue paint and bubblewrap.  Both classes had a blast painting in a different way.  They also sponge painted bluebirds. Today and tomorrow we are playing with balloons in the gym during gross motor time. We also read the Usborne book, "Little bear needs glasses." This is an interactive board book that includes reusable sticker glasses.  Little bear has trouble seeing and his friends try to help them and let them borrow their glasses, but they are not the right fit.  Little Bear soon find glasses that fit just right. Also today and tomorrow, we are learning about germs from the water and soil conservation department. We learned why we should always wash your hands and how hard it is to get rid of the germs on our hands when we do wash. We use the special hand lotion that had "germs" in it and one three rub the lotion onto our hands we held them under a black light to see the germs on her hands. We then washed and dried our hands to get the germs off and put them back under the black light to see if we got all the germs off our hands. Some were very hard to get rid of! We will have presentations from the water and soil conservation department every month during the school year.

Here are some pictures of our bubblewrap paintings!

Apples

Here are the apples we painted this week. We dipped the ends of cardboard tubes into red paint and stamped the apple with circles. 

A is for Apple

It's been a crazy and fun almost 4 weeks into the school year! We've had Fog Days and the county fair, with more events to come. For the last couple weeks, we started an author study about Mo Willems and have read several of his books including books from The Pigeon series and our class favorite, anything in The Elephant and Piggie series. While we read about elephant and piggy, the students wanted to know more about about real elephants.  We read a nonfiction book about elephants and learned many facts about elephants, one being why elephants flap their ears. For our fair project, the two day class made paper plate piggies and the three day class made a paper plate elephants to go with our Moe Willems theme. This week we started our academic themes. We are learning about the letter A, Number zero, shape circle, and the color red. Here's what we did this week!

- painted an apple red

- sing-a-Song about circles

- completed finger plays about apples

- danced to the chicken dance, The dinosaur march, and sang our days of the week and months of the year songs during circle time

- we read "Secrets of the Apple tree" shine a light book from Usborne Books

- we practiced writing the A

- we fed Letter Muncher pictures that start with the A

- during gross motor time we picked apples and ran them back to Miss Rachel's basket

Next week we are learning about the letter B. Check back next week to see what we are up to in the classroom!

More pictures!

Monday!!!

The First Days of school are Monday and Tuesday!!! The room is ready for another year!