Monday was Green Eggs and Ham day!
We have read the book and also watched the movie version this week!
Then we made our own classroom book!
We made our own "green eggs" at afternoon snack!
(sugar cookie, white icing, green Sixlet)
Tuesday was 10 Apples Up on Top day!
We did a fun 100 chart during morning work!
I told them this was there clue as to what Dr. Seuss book we would be using for the day...
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We couldn't let the day go by without trying to balance an apple on our heads, too! :)
We watched Caps for Sale next and then made a Venn diagram comparing the 2 books.
We made another classroom book, this one named How Many Apples are on Top?
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We had 3 birthdays to celebrate Wednesday!
We sang Happy Birthday to Ms. Angie in the morning!
And her class and parents threw her a surprise party in the afternoon!
Then we celebrated Jaiden and Jaida's 6th birthday at afternoon snack!
Their Mickey and Minnie cupcakes were not only precious, but were delicious!
Thursday, we watched The Butter Battle Book.
We talked about how the fought over buttering their bread on the top or bottom and how they could have just done it whatever way they wanted and gotten along just fine.
You've probably guessed by now what we made...
butter!!!
and it was awesome!!!
most of the students even tasted the buttermilk left over!!!
We also made an I Like Apples emergent reader, focusing on the sight word "like."
Some of the students read their reader aloud to the class. :)
Friday was SWAP (Stations With Awesome People).
Since we are finishing up our last week of Seuss, we did another Seuss SWAP :)
Dr. Minear's class helped us this week and will take over next week.
In my room, the students watched a portion of Bartholomew and the Oobleck to start our lesson. We talked about what the students thought oobleck might look like, sound like, smell like, and taste like after we watched the book. We then looked at our Morning Message. (The K5 class was asked to look for words they recognized and then circle them.)
The students were really excited to learn that they were going to make oobleck! The students were very helpful in making our oobleck. We made sure to understand not to eat or taste the oobleck because it has glue and Borax as two of the ingredients, too.
After, I rinsed the oobleck, the students enjoyed feeling and smelling the oobleck and making observations. They realized that some of their predictions were correct! We also compared it to a similar book, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. The oobleck will be kept in a container in the discovery center in the classroom for continued open-ended play!
Here's the recipe!
You will need: 2 cups of water, 1 cup of glue, 2 tablespoons of Borax (it is found in the laundry detergent aisle).
* Mix 1 cup of the water with the 1 cup of glue.
* In a separate bowl, mix the remaining cup of water with the Borax
and a few drops of food coloring if desired.
*Pour the Borax and water mixture into the glue/water mixture SLOWLY while stirring.
*Once it becomes rubbery, stop pouring in the borax mixture!
*Pour off the excess liquid and let the kids enjoy using this!
In Mrs. Byrne's room, they read the book My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss. They discussed how we can have many feelings throughout the day depending on our circumstances. They made a chart of how everyone was feeling on Friday. Next, they put drops of many different colors of paint on a paper doll. They added marbles and rolled the marbles around inside a box on top of their paper doll to make the doll have many colored feelings. Last, they learned to sing a version of "If You're Happy and You Know It" with various feelings including happy, angry, surprised, sick and sleepy!
In Mrs. Angie and Miss Allie's room, they watched Daisy-Head Mayzie. The book is about a human schoolgirl named Mayzie who one day suddenly sprouts a bright white daisy from her head. It causes alarm in her classroom, family, and town, until an agent makes her a celebrity. The Cat in the Hat helps Mayzie to understand her problem and persuade her to go back home. The students enjoyed looking for the Cat in the Hat throughout the book as they watched the story. After the story, students were asked if they have ever felt lonely before. They talked also about the importance of family and friendship. The students then made a daisy headband of their own that resembled Mayzie’s from the story!
Ms. Alison read the story Hop On Pop to the students during SWAP. After reading the story, they talked about all the things that made a "popping" sound. They listed each on chart paper and counted how many words they came up with in each class. Next they had a taste contest in each class to see which flavored popcorn was the class favorite: Cheese or Butter Popcorn. Once they tasted the popcorn, they graphed their favorite flavor of popcorn. Ms. Alison said that all the children's favorite taste in popcorn was "cheese" by far!
limited centers:
One Fish, Two Fish sensory bags
(hair gel and Swedish fish)
balancing block towers
10 Apples Up on Top apple prints
10 Apples Up on Top My, My, My Apple Pie game
Students take turns rolling their dice and covering their apples with pies.
Once all apples are covered, then he/she can say "My, my, my apple pie!" and the game is won!
In a People House
(people and house cookie cutters and play-dough, people counters)
Daisy Head Mayzie
(paint daisies using forks and q-tips)
Oobleck!!!
Libby's landscape :D
Loving this spring weather!!!
There is a new music feature on the playground and the students are loving it!
We added balls today and you can hear the different pitches as they come out.
Soon we will have mallets for them to play melodies, as well!
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