Friday, January 27, 2017

2017 Week 20 Letter Bb, Star Words 'are' 'now' and THE BEACH!


Too bad about another snow day, 
although we enjoyed playing in the snow, 

not happy again about missing 
another day in our beach unit.




Our beach party was a success!
Thanks for the fruit for the kabobs...yummy!
We will use Monday to catch up on a few things, 
then we are moving on to 
The Chinese New Year and Ground Hogs' Day






Here is our first birthday of the new year!
Monday's new morning challenges included:
Unscrambling Fish Sentences...


Reading and Solving Beach Words...

Number Word Recognition...

Monday afternoon we made these cutie patotie crabs!


We played a feed the shark game...
...and learned a new poem!
We read A House For Hermit Crab 
and then designed our own shells!

Be looking for a lucky duck book soon!

Tuesday morning we painted with....
BUBBLES!


We achieved a beautiful effect!

Tuesday afternoon we had centers:
Talking Parrot Words...

Seashell Ending Sounds...


This brain break table was a hit!
BUBBLES!  and WATER PLAY!
Missing Number Octopi...

More bubble and water play...




Thursday we had our Beach Party!
Mrs. Kalmes kids visited me while my kiddos were with Mrs. Pilger.
Here we are drip painting a seahorse or a sea turtle.
This is what we made with Mrs. Pilger...
Snack time prep work...getting the fruit kabob bar ready!
Wow! It smelled soooo good in here!
And it looked so tasty!
Thanks to everyone who donated items.
Here we are creating our edible masterpieces...




The following are photos of our morning all decked out in our beach wear!








At 11:00 we went to Mrs. Kalmes' room to paint a sea creature.
I had Mrs. Pilger's kids and repeated the painting session from earlier.
Here's one more family project...yay!
Good reads on this short special week!

And now for the week of January 30-February 3
Reading: Short a word families and review of all star words so far, middle sound
Math: finish ordinal numbers begin measurement
Theme: Chinese New Year and Ground Hogs' Day
Science: Plant Parts
BIG NEWS: Report cards will be emailed to you at the end of the week from the office.
Conference sign up will be coming home soon.
Our 100th Day celebration is Friday, February 10 at 1:00
We can always use more volunteers!

WELCOME!

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