Naming Words with The Jacket I Wear in the Snow

    We reviewed naming words. Then the students found objects in the classroom. They had to tell us the naming word and classify it as a person, place, or thing. They found:

a computer-thing,

the class library-place,

and a friend-person.

    Then we read The Jacket I Wear in the Snow stopping to discuss the naming words on each page and classifying them as a person, place, or thing. Then we used interactive writing to write the naming words and label the clothes on our girl cut out and wrote about what we wear in the snow.

    When I take our writing down, I will make them into a class book and add to our class library for the students to read.

10 Black Dots

We have been working on one to one correspondence to 10. First we practiced making sets of froot loops on a plate with numbers 1-10. Then we read all, but the last couple of pages of  Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. After reading numbers 1-9, I passed out 10 dots stickers and a piece of paper to each student. They were to use their dots to create a picture and complete the sentence Ten black dots can make.... We came to the carpet and shared our pictures and counted one to one to show our ten black dots. Then we read the rest of the story and compared our pictures to the what ten black dots made in the book.

It Looked Like Spilt Milk

We read It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw. Before reading, we talked about looking at clouds and how we can see pictures in them sometimes. Students talked with their partner about what clouds looked like. After reading the story, we painted with white paint on one half of our paper to make a cloud. Then we folded our paper on top of the white paint and smoothed it with our hand. Students were given a few minutes to study their cloud and think about what picture they saw in their cloud. Then we came to the carpet and shared our cloud and the picture we saw.

Who Took the Apples?

We read Deanna Jump's Who Took the Apples from the Apple Tree?. As a response of our Friday, we made our own version of the story. Students illustrated their self and wrote their name. I kept the ending a surprise until we finished our book and read it aloud. The students loved the surprise ending!

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

The students had so much fun learning with the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. We practiced identifying and locating letters and words. We practiced matching capital and lowercase letters. We worked with sequencing the letters in our names. We also made our own coconut trees and sequenced the letters in our names.

Goldfish Counting

We read the book I Have a Pet and discussed the different pets they have or would like to have. Then I told the students about my brother's goldfish Moo and Mesa. (He was 4 and his favorite cartoon was The Wild West Cowboys of Moo Mesa.) I told them about how my brother would count them all the time. Then I passed out fishbowls to the students and some goldfish crackers. We practiced making sets of numbers 1 through 5.

Then while the students ate their goldfish crackers, I passed out a playing card to each student that had a number 1 through 5 on it. They created a set of fish using stickers for our class book. Our book turned out really cute!

Shapes Everywhere

We reviewed two dimensional shapes and their properties. We read The Shape of Things and then took a shape walk around our school and recorded in our math journals all the shapes we found. We took pictures on our walk. We read The Greedy Triangle and then we used the pictures to create a tree map of the shapes we found.

We watched The Number Crew: Shape Escape on Discovery Streaming and then found a picture of a shape in magazine, cut and glued it on our paper, and then wrote about that shape and one of it's properties.

Penguins

Some penguin fun we had this week:

We made a penguin brace map and discussed the parts and their functions of penguins.

We created a penguin tree map to show what we learned about penguins.

We conducted an experiment to see how penguin feathers keep out water and how their blubber keeps out cold. We put Vaseline on our hand and put it in the water. The water bubbled up where the Vaseline was. Then we put one hand in a blubber (Crisco) glove and one straight in the ice water. We experienced how their blubber keeps out the cold.

We read Tacky the Penguin. Then we illustrated a penguin and used cubes to measure how tall our penguin was. Then we made them into a class book.

We made penguin glyphs to collect data about our class. Then we used our glyphs and graphed the results and wrote about our data.

December 2010

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted! December is a crazy month at school and home. I put together a slideshow of everything I took pictures of this month including the Christmas party! A huge thank you to every parent/guardian who sent food for the party and to Johanna's and Adalia's moms for helping serve and clean up at the party!

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A Vegetable Is

Last week, we learned about harvest and vegetables. We shared the pen and wrote together about vegetables. Then we painted our vegetables and sequenced our sentence. We made it into a book and put it in our library center for the students to read.

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