2018 Week 24 Letter Rr, America The Beautiful

Look who went to the Snowball Dance!

My last child, sigh, they grow up so fast!

These beauties are 3 of my grandbabies from Indianapolis!

What a lovely photo shoot! 

I am hoping to see them next month.

What a weather week we had!

We managed to squeeze in a lesson on bald eagles on Monday before being sent home due to the ice storm.

We have opened our dental health station.

We will begin dental health on Monday.

The snow days sure do throw a wrench in carefully constructed lesson plans!

Our America The Beautiful unit is coming along nicely.

We've been learning about American symbols.

This RRRRReally nice kid brought in Ritz crackers for our Wednesday snack!

This a a brand new America discovery table!

We've had to double down on our star words due to school being closed and Friday being off for Presidents' Day observation.

Here's one of our fun morning charts that we practiced those words with.

On Wednesday we began a two step project...

an American Heart decoration!

They really are lovely!

 We also created these cutie patotie eagles!

 

 Here's another fun patriotic themed morning message...

We love searches!

We worked together to solve these very hard 10 frames numeral puzzles to 100.

Thursday's new morning challenges included:

State matching...

 Patriotic counting by 2s...

Patriotic words... 

 This is our weekly word family that we build together.

Thursday's centers included:

Lady Liberty colors... 

 National Symbols teens ten frames...

 Eagle numeric order...

 Measuring Abe Lincoln's hat with pennies!

Good Reads...

And now for the week of February 26-March 2:

Reading: Letter Dd, middle sounds, short i

Star Words: up, here, soon, they, go, for

Math: larger numerals

Science: Living and nonliving

Theme: Dr. Seuss Read-Across-America Week

Here's our dress up days:

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2018 Week 23 Letter Gg, measurement, Valentines and 100 day!

Look vacation photos!

Just 5 words:

Savannah, Georgia...

 Jekyll Island
(this is what we went for...glass orbs 
you find them, you keep them!)

The ocean...

 and my FAMILY!!!!!

I was just gone Friday through Monday, but WOW did we pack a lot in those 4 days!

soooooo

Back to work Tuesday!

We had new morning challenges:

Valentine sentences...

 Short i words

 Valentine numeric order 70-100...

 Here's a few more family projects:

Tuesday's centers included:

100 (101 actually) day gorp!

Counting by 5s with candy hearts...

How Many Sounds?

Ordinal Numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc)

 We are getting ready for our Valentines party!

 Thank you for all the lovely and delicious treats!

The good guy brought glazers for Gg snack!

We put the finishing touches on the valentine we made for you!

And finally we got to sort out our cards and candy and say thank you!

On Thursday we had another kiddo celebrate making the 100s club!

 Thursday's centers included:

Real and Silly words...

 Measuring hearts...

Ending sounds...

 

and "eating your words"...

we printed short i words then used a Skittle to mark the dot on the i.  After we finished we ATE our dots!

 Friday brought new morning challenges:

Heart sentences...

Heart abc order (backwards)

 and valentines puzzle...

 The kiddos had a brain teaser today,

they worked together to find the hidden pictures.

What great team work!

 We also had a quick 100 day STEM challenge,

How much is 100 drops of water?

First we predicted, then we experimented, then we recorded.

What we found is 100 is sometimes not so much!

 It was the best day ever!

We got the pan balances out for math!

Today's lesson was quite structured and they worked with a team to weigh items on their math paper.

Some teams were fast and got them all, some teams took a little more time.  Not to worry, the pan balances will be available for independent study as well.

 Our final 100 day activity was the book,

The Wolf's Chicken Stew.

We had to find 100 chicks hidden around the room, not for the wolf to eat (as his original plan) but for the wolf to cook 100 cookies for!

 We then brought each one to the 100s chart and matched it up to its number.

What fun!
This little guy found the 100th chick!

This little lady found the very last chick #17:

Good Reads:

 Star words for next week:

And now for the week of February 19-23:

Reading: Letter Rr, middle sound,

short i word families

Star Words: will be into that your who

Math: finish measurement, begin number sense, odd/even and numerals to 100

Social Studies: American Heroes

Theme: America the Beautiful and Dental Health

BIG NEWS:

NO SCHOOL on Friday, Feb. 23

Presidents' Day Observation