2021 Week 3 Pete The Cat!

 We really are on a roll! 
The kids have settled in nicely.
 We're building community while building our brains!

 
Here are some highlights from our week
(we had a sub Tuesday afternoon... I'm doctoring for herniated disk... don't worry it's not slowing me down too much!)
On Monday we learned about Letter Ee and experienced this excellent experiment of Elephant Toothpaste!
We thought like scientists to make predictions. For this experiment I needed to mix the chemicals as the hydrogen peroxide is not kid friendly.  The resulting bubbles were a harmless byproduct of the chemical reaction when we added yeast to the H2O2.  Plus it's an exothermic reaction which means it created heat.. so we made very warm bubbles! 












On Tuesday the kids had a fizzy experiment where they actually got to mix vinegar and baking soda.  We even recorded our findings like scientists!


Isn't that pretty?   And so simple! 


We are matching words to print with Pete The Cat!
 
We also created these cutie-patootie Petes!
We were focusing on color words.






We are also READING these sentences!  

We POINT to each word as we read it.

And to tie in with last week's

 Animal Body Parts Science topic we labeled Pete!

We will have plenty of these labeling activities throughout the year!



Our ABC Book continues with Ee for eggs,
Ff for fish, and Gg for GREAT BIG GLITTER Gg!
 





We wrapped up Brown Bear activities with our very first journal page! These are put into a bound book that we call LUCKY DUCK books!

The kids take turns bringing them home and returning them the next day so some else can enjoy them!




These BIG COLORFUL BEARS are in the hallway brightening up our school!








This week we played 
"I have...who has?" game with Pete!
This is also one we play often!


Because I wasn't here on Tuesday we only did centers once.  Here's Thursday's centers:
Pattern Block Letters...

Beginning Sound with Pete...


One to One correspondence with Pete...


Painting the alphabet...


and Tracing in Glitter Letters...


We also had G-G-G Glowsticks at rest time for letter Gg!









Here are the kids at centers as listed earlier!
(one of my favorite times of the week...so much hands on fun and learning!)



















And now for the week of September 27-October 1:
Reading/Language Arts: Letters Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk
Rhyming and Beginning Sounds
Math: Numerals 0-5 (PRINTING PRACTICE!!!)
Theme: Apples
Social Studies: Friends at School
Science: Animals Change and Grow
BIG NEWS:
This coming week is a crazy week for items needed from home:
1. an apple
2. a baby picture (info will be sent on Monday)
3. Fall items for our science table (also Monday but optional)