VBS

The end of the school is near, which means VBS is on it's way! You can register online using this link: https://spreadsheets2.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDlYOVRIVnVuTUIyQUhqbm1ZekJlY1E6MQ

I hope to see you there!

Din-O-Mite!

In preparation for our field trip next week we studied dinosaurs this week. The class put dinos in number order. A dino stamp game provided a chance for showing numeral knowledge. Stories about T-Rex and Three Horn were written. Paleontologists inspected bones and found words on them. But, a stand-out favorite was the sensory table. The class paleontologists dug up dinos.

We also checked out a website that allowed us to see an interview with an actual paleontologist.

Aquarium Trip

Did you hear about our field trip? We went to the Monterrey Bay Aquarium in California. The Aquarium's webcams allowed us to watch sharks and fish get fed. A scuba diver entered the water and fed the animals by hand! There were other divers cleaning the rocks and caring for the kelp as well.

This week we are on our second week studying the Ocean. The class stopped at centers that included searching the sand for treasure sentences, exploring the oceans in Google Earth, reading and sorting word families, and counting fish in an aquarium. But the highlight was touching the Octopi. Miss Naumann brought in three mini and one bigger octopus. Ask one of us about: How did it feel? What was on the tentacles? What is on the bottom? How did it smell?

The wonders of the digital age make the work of God's hands even more evident and amazing as we can "fly" to another culture and explore it's creatures in a matter of seconds. Watch the cuttlefish camouflage or a dolphin jump. Marvelous deeds!

March

We wrapped up February with 100 day. The class made a 100 piece snack, read 100 words, said 100 memory treasures and did 100 exercises. Phew...good thing it was a short day. Thank you for the food for our snack.

We also studied weather. The class really enjoyed their chance to be a meteorologist and use the Smartboard to show their tv audience the forecast.

In March we dug into some garbage. The class helped Miss Naumann sort our garbage into piles. We decided to REUSE plastic silverware (we found an real spoon in the garbage too!) We made a pile of food waste to compost and one to feed to the worms. We pulled out plastic containers to RECYCLE and we pledged to REDUCE our paper towel waste by using the hand dryers.

March 2nd is the birthday of Theodore Giesel a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. The class enjoyed a math activity based off of the book "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish." We also played three rhyming games and did a Seuss stamping activity. "

Be Mine, Valentine!

Our centers this week were all about Valentines. In the math center the kids were working in a candy factory counting hearts to put in red tins. The class also opened up chocolate boxes and spelled words using valentine clues. Sorting candy hearts, doing a Valentine game on the Smartboard and working on our mailboxes were also on the menu.

Possibly the biggest hit was when the class made their "poof books." Each author had a chance to read their masterpiece in the Author's Chair!

Fabulous February

This week we traveled to China just in time for Chinese new year. The class used a balance, graphed food items, played dominoes, used chopsticks and wrote about Chinese food. On Friday we played a few Green Bay Packer games including an addition one using football counters.