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Showing posts with label owls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label owls. Show all posts
Monday, November 5, 2012

today's snapshot

We started our Ball Study today!
There is a letter in your child's mailbox explaining what the study is about.
Please send one (1) of your child's favorite balls to school TOMORROW for our discussion.
 
We started off our discussion by listing all of the balls the students could think of and then went through our ball collection to see what we could have missed. They came up with 14 by themselves!
 
Our question of the day:


 
We also learned that tongue twisters are phrases that are challenging to say because the words all sound similar. The students had to help me identify the sound they were hearing the most.

 
We played Say It, Show It. We chanted:
Appy, tappy, tappy,
Appy, tappy, too.
Appy, tappy, tappy,
I'll show my card to you!
 
I held up a number card 0-10 and the students had to hold up the corresponding # of fingers.
 
(3)
(7)
Hope made the number 7 with her fingers and Conner made it in Chinese.

(9)

 

(0)

(10)
with 10 fingers and a 1 and a 0 :)

 
We had our first read aloud of The Little Red Hen and also watched the eBook. The cat, dog, and goose sure learned the hard way about helping out their friend, the hen!
 

 
Our friend, Maddox, visited us today. We sure wish he'd stick around permanently!
 


 
Our annual Family Turkey Project is being sent home today.
Help your turkey make it safely past Thanksgiving this year by disguising him as part of your family. Think of something that is unique to your family (hobbies, jobs, sports, etc) and dress your turkey.
   Please have fun and be creative! You may use any medium you can think of to decorate your turkey.
 
Bring it back to school Friday!!! 
 
And lastly, Ms. Annie bought a new addition to the classroom decor...an owl rug. All :)))))))
 
 
 
 

Monday, August 20, 2012

owl bet you can't guess how my room's decorated!

I. AM. IN. LOVE. WITH. MY. CLASSROOM. EEK! I had the best time decorating for the new school year! I am using the popsicle stick center plan this year. Each student has an owl stick.

 I made center signs using our Cricut for each center. Once the pockets are filled, the center is filled.

I also painted owl portraits for the kitchen, reading, block, and writing centers.
Here's your tour, walking in the front door and turning left...the kitchen center...




the reading center...



large group rug...



This is Hooey the owl, our classroom pet. He will travel home with the students every weekend and they will record their adventures in a journal to share on Monday.

cozy corner and listening center...
smartboard...

block center...

art center and writing center...

fine motor center...

Word Wall Woods...

journal and crayon cubbies...

birthdays...
the front door...


student of the month...

cubbies...
first day treat bags (you can find the tags {here) from Stepping into First Grade's blog!)


other side of cubbies...
mailboxes...
agenda...

and I glued on owls I made using the Cricut to clothes pins to display student work...