2016 Week 11 Letter Aa, star word 'see', Scarecrows, Candy Corn, Stone Soup!

NOW WITH STONE SOUP PICTURES...SCROLL DOWN TO THE MIDDLE FOR SOME YUMMY LOOKING PHOTOS!

Here's our weekend in review:

We went hiking with the birthday boy on Saturday!

Loki walked on a leash for the first time...not too shabby behavior!

We also made lefse for the very first time

(despite being called Mrs. O'Duggan, 

I am almost all Norwegian!)

The lefse actually turned out pretty good for an amatuer! 

 Monday brought new morning challenges:

candy corn numeric order...

 

 candy corn one-to-one correspondence...

candy corn beginning sounds...

 We painted these adorable scarecrows!

 This guy LOVES this reading buddy scarecrow!

 Here's a few more family projects:

Tuesday was candy corn day!

We made an addition sentence with our carefully cut out and organized candy corns...

Tuesday's centers included:

Candy Corn Count and Tally...

(plus eat!)

Candy Corn Addition...

 

 Scarecrow beginning sounds...

(sorry for the blurry pic)

 Scarecrow dice roll and star words...

What a fun way to review!

We wrote and drew in shaving cream!

(plus it made the room smell nice and clean)

 

Wednesday was Stone Soup day!

Not only did we prepare, cook, and eat Stone Soup (based on the folktale) 

We also created an art project!

  What great open ended fun!
So this looks interesting...

  Thanks for the nice collection of food!

  We enjoyed our Stone Soup song!

We worked together to chop and cut...

  And into the pot it goes...

Mmmmm, our room smelled so good all day long!

  After cooking all day long, we were finally ready to eat!

 What a fun day!

Thursday brought new morning challenges:
Seasons Sort...

Turkey Counting by 10's...

Upper Case~Lower Case Matching...

Thursday was our 50th day of School!

Wish I had this crew at my house on Thanksgiving!
What a great bunch of chefs!

 Here's a sneak peek of next week's fun as we finish two turkey projects when I return from Atlanta!

Thursday's centers included:
Good Food One-to-One Correspondence and Tallies...

 Stone Soup printing....

 Turkey Dinner Beginning Sounds...

(my apologies...the pics from our 4th center,  turkey bdpqg sorting, did not turn out)

 Our leader is showing us the graph we made voting for our favorite part of Stone Soup...

 Another cute turkey pic!

Good Reads this week...

And now for the week of November 21-23

Reading: AEIOU The Vowels! Star word review

Math: Numerals 6,7,8,9  Printing

Theme: Turkeys and Thanksgiving

BIG NEWS:  Early Dismissal 1:00 on Wednesday

NO SCHOOL Thursday-Friday~Thanksgiving Break

I will be in Atlanta on Friday, November 18-Monday, November 21 to visit my son.  
Mrs. Olson will be our substitute. 

2016 Week 10 Letter Ss, Squirrels, star word review

Here's last weekend's fun!

Our first time at Chanhassen for dinner theater!

This lovely lady came home from college in Moorhead to go with us.

I would do this again in a heartbeat!

This week in k, we had lots of Ss fun!

Look at that super sentence our star writer wrote on the smartboard!

We put together space shuttles...

 

Here are a few family project turkeys.

How lovely!

Tuesday's new morning challenges were space counting by 10s...

 

Space ship abc order...

 

Space word families...

 

Daily we write in our writing journals.

Look at the detail in this entry! Wow!

Tuesday's centers included:

Squirrel comparing numbers...

Squirrel read the room...color words focus...

Squirrel beginning sounds...

Fall themed addition...

 

Here's more turkeys!

Wednesday afternoon we created a squirrel silhouette!

First the background was made with the lovely technique of balloon painting...

 Then we cut out and ripped and created our squirrel picture...so pretty!

 On Thursday we had our very first birthday celebration of the year!

 Here's another terrific turkey!

There's only 4 out yet, can't wait to see them all!

 We had a mini lesson on the order of the planets on Thursday...

 And finally, Thursday's centers:

Pumpkin ways to make 5...

 

 Fall word search...

 Fall graphing and tallying...

 Pumpkin addition dice roll...

And now for the week of November 14-18
Reading: letter Aa, sound for /a/, word families
Math: numbers 6-10
Theme: scarecrows (finally) turkeys, stone soup
Big News: conferences are Tuesday and Thursday, see you then!
Stone Soup veggies are needed by Tuesday at the latest, thank you !
We will have Mrs.Olson as our sub on Friday and next Monday as my daughter, Sorcha, and I fly to Atlanta to visit my oldest son, Graham, and his wife. They are expecting their first baby in December!