2017 Week 33 Farm, Bread, Pizza, Little Red Hen, and CLOCKS!

HoeDown Pictures will be included in next week's blog!

Thanks for your patience.

Here's a few of the beautiful weather weekend projects we tackled: 

We got the bees settled in, did some repainting, 

and (my fav!) decorating! 

 On Monday we celebrated Earth Day by planting seeds.

We will be comparing peas and beans as they sprout!

 As of today, 4 days later, we actually have a little green poking through on a few seeds!

 We also created these beauties!

 Our big beautiful planet!

 Tuesday's centers included:

Reading tally marks...

 creating and writing about a farm scene...

 reading and recording 3 letter words...

 and tallying with Ms. Nelson!

 Here's our morning challenges:

Number Word match...

 Telling time to the o'clock...

 addition sentences...

 Here's our latest birthday girl!

 Here's a few choice time activities...

 On Wednesday we read many different versions of 

The Little Red Hen.

One of our favorites was The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza!

We created our own fantasy slice of pizza out of paper...

 And then grouped them in a graph and a half!

 This fella brought Ww and Ff snacks this week!

Thanks!

 We've got a new lego challenge in our room.

The engineers who can figure out the photo and recreate the design get a picture taken!

On Thursday we baked bread!

Oh, I wish I could send you the aroma!

We all took turns adding ingredients...

 We learned about YEAST and how them magic of bread is really those little tiny microscopic creatures!

 Thursday's centers included...

Making REAL pizzas!

 

Mystery Clues Star Words...

 Brain Break Farm Toys Playdough station..

 and listening for and counting sounds...

 Here's some happy pizza eaters!

 Friday's new morning challenges included...

Spelling Farm Words...

 Creating sentences with cubes..

 and (a new skill!) telling time to the half hour!

Here's some GREAT reads from this week...

HoeDown Pictures will be included in next week's blog!

Thanks for your patience.

And now for the week of May 1-5...

Reading: Letters Vv and Zz, punctuation

Star Words: look, saw, their, put, very, out

Math: Calendar

Theme: Pets!

Science: 5 Senses

BIG NEWS:

Thursday, May 4 we are going to Whitewater Farms!

This is only a half day field trip so no volunteers are needed.

.Friday, May 12...1:00 Student Dismissal

Thursday, June 1...last student day!

In the morning the whole school will be going to a movie 

AT THE MOVIE THEATER!

This was the Fools' 5 reward this year!

We will meet you for the end of the year kindergarten picnic and Spring Concert around 12.

THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE IN THE POTLUCK STATUS AT SCHOOL...

THEY ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED AS SET BY HEALTH AND WELLNESS POLICY

We will be communicating to you what that means for our end of the year celebration as soon as we have a few more details worked out.

Thanks!

Details to follow about venue and exact time.

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