2018 Week 3 Letter Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh; Pete the Cat; Sorting and Classifying

(my right and left click  buttons are broken on my laptop...sorry, I gave up trying to made this blog more readable with a nice font and larger letters!)

Here's my house lately... apples and chickens! 

To read about this funny fellow,  find me on Facebook or Instagram to read the whole story of the

 "kitchen chicken"!

Here's a little preview of our week....exciting Ee day and the Elephant toothpaste experiment!

Last Friday we had our first library day! Here's Ms. Manly and Ms. Kay at check out time!

On Monday this excellent fella brought Elf cookies for our Ee snack!

The class is gearing up for our science project.  Aren't the adorable in their protective eye wear? Safety first!

Here's the ingredients for our first science experiment.  If you are interested in recreating this,  google elephant toothpaste.  The strong hydrogen peroxide is only for adults to use though. I bought ours at Sally's in LaCrosse. The byproduct of this experiment is water.  Very sudsy water!  The purpose of this experiment was to introduce following directions,  measuring of liquids,  practicing safety. 

Plus it was pretty cool!

 

Here's the video again. ..

I just can't stop watching it!

Here's Monday's cutie leader and morning message...

On Monday afternoon we created these lovely mosaic names for the hallway!  We've received so many compliments on them!

We also made a graph of how many letters in our names... fun with numbers!

Tuesday morning we began a new round of morning challenges:

The yellow team used bear clip cards to match number to quantity...

The red team matched rhyming words...

The green team put together alphabet puzzles...

These rotate daily.

This fabulous friend brought fruit snacks for our letter Ff snack...

He was also our first birthday boy of the school year!

Here's our two newest entrees into our ABC book...Ee eggs and Ff fish!

We began our Pete the Cat theme by playing this fun button game in whole group!

We then did our very first labeling project....
"Let's Label Pete!"
This is the big chart...

This is the kids' practice page.

Tuesdays' centers included these 5 stations:
Fizzy Science for letter Ff... what fabulous fun!

Just like scientists we had to record our findings...

This station was used to introduce color coding of our answers ... you'll see lots of color coding this year at centers!

This is our names on magic rainbow paper... fun!

At this station we practiced writing letters on glitter trays!

This station was name puzzles!

This great kid brought granola,  grapes,  and goldfish crackers for our Gg snack! 

How cute!

On Wednesday,  our Gg page in our alphabet books was a green and/ or gold glitter Gg!

At choice time each table took turns exploring the science table with a huge tray of baking soda and some colored vinegar and droppers.
 What fun exploring!

The kids also got a glow stick for the letter Gg.

Good reads this week...

This happy girl brought us Honey Nut Cheerios for our Hh snack! 

Here's our letter Hh page...

Here's us posing for our Goofy Glasses Guess Who book!

(we will get Logyn's pic when he returns!)

Thursday's centers included
Pete The Cat beginning sound...

Pete the Cat counting and numerals...

(Sorry, I've lost the group pic)

Playdough color words...

Roll and trace a shape...
(yep, we need to work on pencil grip!)

Writing and drawing our hopes and dreams...

Here's our newest morning challenges:
ABC order with bears....

One to one correspondence with bears...

Classifying puzzles....

Earlier in the week we made these awesome PETE THE CATS!
Friday we painted his shoes!
Monday we will write about his shoes!

And now for the week of September 24-28:

Language Arts: Letters Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll

Beginning sounds and Rhyming

Math:  position words

Social Studies:  leaders at home and school

Science:  Our World (the science curriculum officially begins after Christmas but as you can see, we squeeze in a few sciencey things now and then!) 

Theme:  Apples!

BIG NEWS: we are heading to Ferguson's Apple Orchard on Thursday,  September 27!

Volunteers, be sure you've filled out a background check  with our district within the last 5 years.

Everyone will get a reminder sent home on Tuesday about your child's lunch choice.

Homecoming parade is Friday,  October 5 at 2:00. You are welcome to join us as we walk down to Main Street or meet us there.  Kindergarten kids must return to school after the parade but you can pick them up early from the classroom if you wish.

Late Start 10:00 Wednesday,  October 10

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