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| We used the app Skitch to label the parts of the insect. The students loved working together with a partner and creating their own bug picture! We shared them with each other. They learned the parts of the insect very quickly! I can already see that this Insect unit is going to be a big hit! |
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| All of the students loved this big puzzle. They are getting much better and putting them together. |
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| Roar!!! We are dinosaurs! |
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| The students loved listening to dino songs and stories after scanning the QR codes. |
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| They practiced writing the word DINOSAUR |
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| Digging for dinosaur fossils. They are the cutest paleontologists! |
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| The writing center was fun with dino stamps! |
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| We made dinosaur fossils with clay. |
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| They loved building a dinosaur cave. |
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| Can you spot the dinosaur? |
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| We Skyped with the local museum. We learned so much! |
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| They loved excavating fossils. |
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| More excavating! |
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| Each student did a poster on a specific dinosaur. They all did a great job! |
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| The students learned by using the Five Senses glove! |
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| We used our sense of sight, touch and hearing when we used our SmartBoard. This week the students played alphabet bingo. We had to listen very carefully to match the letter sounds. They are doing a GREAT job! Most of the students have learned all letter sounds! |
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| In the writing center, the students used sensory bags to write letters. The sensory bags were made of lotion and paint. They smelled so good! |
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| The students categorized shapes. They used their sense of sight and touch. |
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| QR codes are always a hit in our classroom! We listened to videos about the Five senses. |
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| Smelling jars are always included in our unit. It was one of my favorite activities as a child. |
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| The students created a Five Senses Big Book. Each day, they cut out pictures that represented the sense of the day. |
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| We used our sense of touch to feel items in our mystery bags. The mystery bag really forced us to use only one sense. It was a little tricky! |
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| Andrew is showing off his Five Senses boy! We hung our work in the hallway. |
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| We used herbal tea bags to make the letter T! Our room smelled so good...and so did our paper!!! |
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| We also had a taste test. We tasted salty, bitter, sweet, and sour. Can you guess which was the class favorite? SWEET! |
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| Kaylan's face after she tasted sour!! |
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| We made eggs that held different items. We had to match the sounds. |
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| We wrapped up our unit by taking a Five Senses walk around campus. We used our binoculars that we made to look at different things. |
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| We celebrated International Dot Day on September 15th. We worked alongside our wonderful librarian, Mrs. Clingan, and participated in some really fun activities! |
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| We painted lots and lots of DOTS!!! |
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| Our favorite activity was creating light art. We took a flashlight into a dark room and waved the flashlight in a circle. Mrs. Clingan set her camera to a very low speed and took a picture. |
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| For the past two weeks, we have been learning all about ramps. We went outside and took pictures of real life ramps with our Ipads and created Pic Collages. We also used blocks to make ramps in our classroom. We learned about inclined planes and how fast (or slow) objects will roll down it. We learned that the steepness of the incline plane will affect how fast the ball will roll. |
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| In the middle of our ramp unit, we also got to Skype with a Pre-K class in Monterrey, Mexico. We will be working with this class for the school year. We have so much to learn from each other! |
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| We took our ramps into the hallway. We tested out different types of objects to see how far they would roll down the ramp. We learned that the texture of the ball affects how fast it will go down the ramp. We also learned that the weight of the ball affects the speed. The students had a lot of fun experimenting with different objects. |
