September 22 - 25 was another busy week!

This week was filled with alphabet and number activities.  We enjoyed beautiful weather and are especially enjoying the leaves that have already fallen.  We have a new collection every day!

It was wonderful seeing so many families at our community day on Tuesday!  We hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as we did!  

We will miss our friends tomorrow (Friday) while we are busy in our meetings and look forward to seeing their smiling faces on Monday.

Have a great weekend and enjoy some of this week's pictures!

He made a moustache and beard like Grandpa's.

She created a picture of her friends playing at the play dough centre.

Writing!  At the play dough centre!!!!

One of many detailed drawings.

A beautiful, sparkly beard!

 The guessing jar and question of the day centre.

The music centre is very popular!

Reading our search and find books.

A very long and flat play dough creation.

We also had a floam centre for the first time this year.  

An amazing apple tree.  Great cutting skills!!!!

Ms. Romero read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and students helped her to recreate the story at the carpet and again at the art centre.  Below are some great Chicka Trees from students.

Making pointers to find letters, numbers, and objects in the classroom.

Building!  This is the start of something big.

Watching a cool Humpty Dumpty music video.

Students enjoyed the addition of blue bubbles to the water table.  They noticed that the more they poured water, the more bubbles appeared.

Using craft sticks at the play dough centre enabled students to build different types

of structures.

Signing our survey book and making estimates at the Guessing Jar are a daily activity.

Making and decorating shaker bottles.

Showing Spartan pride and togetherness!

Did your child come home with a random letter label on them?  Students were given a letter and they had to put themselves into alphabetical order.  Even Chu joined in the fun and wore the letter "r".

A beautiful picture of a train.

Experimenting with a box to see how much wind it can create.

Her friend used a box to create a costume (he was a  tool box) and she used his scraps to create a school bus. 

Experimenting with the spin-ability of our linking cubes.

One of the leaves we found.  This one is especially cool because it had a heart on it.

Our First Two Weeks!

Thank you for being so patient, waiting for pictures of our class.  There is a lot to catch up on!  I will start with our first few days!

Ms. Romero read this book, Chu's First Day of School and talked with the children how Chu was feeling on his first day and then asked for them to talk about how they were feeling as well.  Chu has become a valued member of our classroom these past two weeks.  Students have built him multiple homes, made him an official name card, created a hat for him, and included him in much of their play.  Here are some examples :

Students Enjoying Centres!

We used acorns, leaves, shapes, and glass beads the past two weeks at the light table.  The frames were left in case students wanted to frame their creations but they were free to explore without them as well.  

During week one, the water table was filled with water and bubbles.  For week two, we filled it with water and rocks.  Students were invited to "paint" the rocks with water.  We quickly observed that the water wore away the rocks and we were left with sediment on the bottom of the water table.

Students traced wooden letters at the writing centre.

Our big block centre is always busy.  During the past two weeks, they have been used to create many homes, towers (some taller than Ms. Romero!), hiding places and much more!

Our carpet is also busy with our "carpet toys".  This is where students are invited to play with Lego, Mobilo (seen above), small blocks, large foam shapes, Straws and Connectors, and more.

Our playdough centre!

The Art Centre!

More fun!

Using figurines to create a story!

A very creative moustache and beard!

Using our How to Draw Dinosaurs book!

Reading and relaxing!

Using Alphabet pointers to read the morning message!

Putting foam letters in order!

Ms. Romero and students re-enacted Five Little Frogs

My apologies to the four students not yet represented on the blog.  Due to privacy issues I cannot post their pictures.  Either I do not have their yellow Consent to Photo form yet or all of the pictures they were in included a child that has not yet given me permission to put their picture on the blog.  I am keeping track of whose pictures are on and how many times.  I will try to include everyone as soon as possible!