Our First Day of School!

This first week of school went by so fast, but the first DAY of school went by even quicker! I got some pictures of the kids while we did our getting to know you game and drank our jitter juice.

The first day of school is spent doing a lot of learning new rules and procedures and some cutsie crafts to take home. The very first thing we do in the morning is go to rotation as soon as breakfast is over. So, after our hour and a half rotation, we came back to the room, did our date, day, month and year on the calendar, buzz book, then played a getting to know you game with balloons! Each balloon had a different question in it that the kids answered after they popped it.

 After our getting to know you balloon game, we read The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn and made a Kissing Hand card to take home and read with our families.

When the afternoon hit, we read First Day Jitters (which is always fun because they never guess it's the teacher with first day jitters!) and talked about what jitters are and some times that we may have jitters. After our story, we made jitter juice to help our jitters go away. It worked!

After we finished our jitter juice snack, the kids played in free centers for the rest of the afternoon until it was time to go home. To pick their free center, they use our Center Spinner that's on the board. They can only go to a center once each week, so if they've already been to that center, the have to spin again. That way, everyone gets a chance to visit all of our centers.

After Grandparent's Day

After Grandparent's Day last Friday, we came back to the room and played. Some of the kids played with legos, some played with the balances and magnets in science center, some painted and some played teacher (and I got to be the student ... they were AWESOME teachers!)

I wasn't sitting in my seat and listening like I was supposed to, so she was reminding me how to behave!

Playing with legos and seeing who had more linking cubes in their side of the balance

Playing with the magnets and play-doh

After we played for a little while, Mrs. Sturdivant's class came over and watched a movie with us. We watched The Land Before Time and talked about how Littlefoot's Grandparents were taking care of his because his dad was gone and his mother passed away. After our movie, I showed the kids some different science-y things. I can never pass up the chance for science!

First we used some of our leftover fruit from breakfast to paint with. We used 2 apples and 1 banana. We talked about the seeds inside and I showed the kids that if you cut an apple in half you can see a star in the middle of it. The banana was fun when we got to the seeds. The kids knew the banana had seeds, but weren't sure where the seeds were inside of it.

After we painted with fruit, I got the test tubes out for the kids (they have been dying to see what we use them for). We talked about our primary colors (red, yellow and blue) and I told them that if you mix the primary colors together, you get secondary colors ... then we mixed them!

What will happen when we mix red with yellow?

We held our mixture of yellow and red up to the light to see the color orange

 

There's no telling what was said, but we have a hilarious group of kids so it was funny!