Valentine's Week!

In all the hustle and bustle of Valentine's week ... I forgot to take pictures at the Valentine's Party! Here is what the kids worked on during Valentine's week and did AWESOME on!

In math, they sorted and graphed conversations hearts, did a color by number heart and used linking cubes and linking chains to measure different animals from Steve Jenkin's book Actual Size.

  

The crocodile's head was 22 linking chains long!

Using linking chains to measure a giant earthworm!

Thursday, the kids made heart people by tracing large and small hearts onto paper and gluing them together with crinkled strips.

Tracing hearts for his heart person

Heart people just make you want to dance! :)

Through out the week the kids made bags for their Valentine's. After school Thursday I stayed to set their bags up with the little Valentine presents I made for them.

The each got a Valentine puzzle to put together

These were their Valentine boxes that I put their puzzles and mustache or lip suckers in.

I think this was one of the coolest/cutest Valentine cards! AND we just finished talking about space that week so how perfect was that!

You send my heart into "orbit" ... Love it!

Mustache and lip lollipops

Their bags looked pretty cool!

Beach Day

Last Friday, we had Beach Day in our classroom. Since we had Beach Day, stations for the morning were all beach themed!

The kids put sentences in the correct order, measured beach animals, played in the water table, had castle building contests (with blocks and legos, NOT sand), listened to a book about ocean animals and ate a pretty cool beach snack! We had a busy day!

Ordering the words in sentences

Writing the sentences after putting them in order

Measuring different ocean animals

Exploring the water and containers in the water table.

Hand and foot lobsters.

Hand and foot lobsters!

Lego "Sand" Castle

Block "Sand" Castle

Block "Sand" Castle

Of course, they had to have some relaxing in the "sun" time.

Listening to "Ocean Hide and Seek"

For a snack at the end of the day, I made the kids octopus hot dogs, banana and apple palm trees, goldfish washed up on Cheerio sand and a sand dollar cookie.

Black History Month

This post will be ongoing. Just like we did with Hispanic History Month, we are talking about one person each week who helped contribute to our society.

This first week, we talked about Rosa Parks. The kids colored buses with people of all colors sitting wherever they want to! After coloring their bus, they wrote who Rosa Parks was and what she did that was so important.

For the second week of Black History Month, the kids learned and wrote about Bessie Coleman, the first black woman to get her pilot's license. They made aviators (one of our vocabulary words this week) and wrote about who Bessie Coleman was and why she is an important figure.

For the third week of Black History Month, the kids learned and wrote about Barack Obama, the first black President of the United States of America. They wrote "Did you know ..." papers about the President and we took pictures by the flag in the front of the school just like Presidents take pictures by flags. 

Friday, the kids brought back their Black History month posters and gave their little presentations. They did beyond awesome!

Bessie Coleman

George Washington Carver

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

Barack Obama

George Washington Carver

We had better luck with picture inside

George Washington Carvers

Barack Obamas

While I wanted to kids to see different people from Hispanic and Black history who have contributed to much to our country and have made so many first, one of the MOST important things I wanted them to take away from their projects is that they can do anything they set their minds to. They CAN be scientists, judges, astronauts, presidents, pilots and important speakers no matter what. All they have to do is try. I'm always amazing with the things they do and remember and how bright they are. I'm so proud of all of them and I know y'all are too!