Here's a sneak peek of our week!
We did a little backpacking and primitive camping last weekend at Jay Cooke State Park.
The 10 inches of snow they received on Wednesday was all gone by Friday. The weather was lovely, there was very little mud, no bugs, no crowds! Early season camping might just be my new favorite! (Shhhh! Don't tell anyone, I reserved their last electric site and brought my electric blanket! Haha.. win! Although my hubby just shook his head and rolled his eyes. )
We hiked to the Southern Terminus of the Superior Hiking Trail. We've about 150 miles ticked off the 300+mile trail... they keep adding to it! Someday we'll finish?!?
And of course I got to play in The Lake! See my Facebook page or Instagram post to read more if you're interested...
As promised, we began learning about the pond on Monday!
These kiddos are discovering the leap frogs and measuring how far they can jump!
These biologists are exploring our pond in the classroom!
Here we have some musicians playing the frog rhythm instruments!
It's not just about ponds in our room though!
This guy has visited the magnet station everyday.
He is fascinated by the magnetic force field.
Monday afternoon we crafted these adorable turtle mosaics!
We also painted coffee filters needed for a pond lily project later this week.
Our writing journals are mostly used with a starter phrase now.
The k kids finish with their own ideas.
Here we began with "A pond..."
I love how they utilized their recent lesson on states of matter!
Tuesday's morning challenges included:
Counting by 2s frogs...
Turtle word families...
And turtle addition...
Tuesday's centers included:
Turtle subtraction...
Creating a turtle or 2...
Comparing Pond vs. Meadow Animals...
Read the Room "Where is the T sound" turtles...
Star Word Unscramble Turtles...
Bonus picture of my hubby's yummy finds... Fionn and I ate them all!
I just adore their writing!
Wednesday's morning message was a great counting by 2s review! Please keep practicing at home, this is a tough one for us. 😳🙄🤔😎
Here are the beautiful pond lilies in bloom!
The kids have been creating books like crazy this Spring!
Here's our homemade classroom collection from just this week!
We try to share these literary gems daily.
Most are about friendship!
Here's a guy in the process of creating a book!
To celebrate the end of 4th Grade Reading Buddies, we met them in the front lawn first for snack (thank you, Mrs.Bernt, for the freezies) and then to read with us one last time!
Thursday's centers included:
Brain break playdo creations with a pond theme..
An all time favorite, Action Frogs!
Frog Addition...
Frog subtraction...
Read the room Froggy Family words (a 2G skill! )
On Friday we had new morning challenges:
Pond Animal spelling...
Froggie counting to 50 floor puzzle...
(they are counting and hopping!)
Which Number comes first?...
Who says we cannot have fun while we practice printing our numbers?
This sweetie brought us a "just because" treat!
And this detective found our missing Ii card!
Wow! Iggy Iguana has been missing for months.
Great find!
The sunny family projects are looking good!
There's still more out!
I'm looking forward to seeing them.
And now for the week of May 20-24 (our last full week! )
Language Arts: review all skills
Magic E word families
~ing ending words
Math: Graphing and probably
Theme: Insects
BIG NEWS:
*Pastries for Parents
(free breakfast for you and your family!)
Wednesday May 22 7-8
*Memorial Day Monday May 27 NO SCHOOL
*Music Concert, Wednesday May 29 1:30 & 7
*Oxbow Park/Zollman Zoo Field Trip:
Thursday, May 30
*Kindergarten MINI Concert/Graduation/Lunch Beginning at 12:00 Thursday, June 6
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