2022 Week 18

 

Hey, I'm (kind of) back in the hiking game!

We hiked a 2 mile course at Forestville State Park last Saturday...not too far but the first since getting my back "fixed!"

We love the candlelight ski/hike/snowshoe events held around the area.  They are typically a family friendly and lovely event!  Check out "Midwest candlelight events" on Google if you are interested! 

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We began our week with the great book called The Land of Many Colors which was written by a class of preschoolers 20 years ago!  The take away was it doesn't matter what color we are,

 it's the heart that matters!

Prior to reading this book we had the oldie but goodie

"Which Should We Open" experiment.  The shiny package was so lovely, the brown package was...well, just plain. Whatever side had the most votes was the bag we were going to open and share.

As usual the shiny bag had the most votes so we opened it and found....CAT FOOD!  Only too bad for us because the plain bag had M&Ms!

After the kiddos handled their disappointment, I asked them what lesson we could learn from this.  After everyone repeated "It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, the inside is what matters" we shared the M&Ms anyway because I'm not a monster! Haha! 

The beach is up and running!  How fun!

We had a rare centers day on Wednesday due to no school on Monday.

My table was a STEM challenge...the kids had to build a coconut tree with the materials available AND balance letters on top of it!  The record was 58 letters!

 

 

Ms. Sauer's table was a Rhyme Time review:

but the photos didn't turn out~my phone needs replacement but I've been babying her along...sigh

Ms. Martinez's table was greater than review...

Ms. S's table was an introduction to MIDDLE SOUNDS...a skill coming up very soon!

We also had a read the room with beach words!

Here's more of the STEM challenge photos...

On Thursday we created these multi-step

 Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom trees for the hallway!

Boomerangs (just for fun! )of our STEM challenge:

And now for the week of January 25-28...

Reading/Language Arts: Letter Bb and ending sounds

Sight words *are*now*

verbs: past tense 

Math: addition and subtraction fluency

Social Studies: Cooperation (part of Cardinal Cares)

Science: Solids, Liquids, Gases

BIG NEWS: No School for students on Monday, January 24 Teacher Workshop

Beach Party in Kindergarten on Friday, January 28

(please see the note sent home Friday)

Beginning of  2nd semester is Monday, January 24

Parent/Teacher Conferences are coming up on Feb. 10 or Feb.14...be looking for an email from the office so you can sign up.  I am looking forward to visiting with you about your wonderful k kid!