Square 1 Art Projects

Check out our Square 1 art pieces. The kiddos put a lot of time into them. The catalog sheet for purchasing items like tote bags, holiday ornaments, necklaces, and pillow cases with this art work on it will come home sometime in November.

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Bats!

   We have been spending some time learning about bats this week.
Collectively, the kids knew quite a few facts during our brainstorming session.
We have used the word nocturnal a lot in the past few days.
Today we saw this cool Youtube song about echolocation.


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Bat Song

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We read Ed Emberly's Go Away, Big Green Monster! We then created our own monsters for writing time. These are on display in the hall right now!

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Cute Little Pumpkins!

This young lady and her family donated little pumpkins for each kid to decorate. Thank you!  Thank you! We even had enough to share with the classroom next door.


The kids had fun creating painted masterpieces at the art center during choice time.  Did the pumpkins all make it home intact?  I hope so.

Bus pictures from a while ago. . . .

I had to post a few of these school bus pictures from earlier in the year. Back in September, we spent some time reading and singing "The Wheels on the Bus" so I borrowed my daughter's pop-up school bus.  As you can imagine, this was a big hit during choice (free play time) at the end of the day.

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Photos! Photos!

     Thank you to those who have returned the blog permission slips.

 I've been itching to post some of the cute pictures of the kids.  I will add to it regularly now.

    These are pictures from the day we practiced reading and writing the room, which is part of our literacy center board each week.  The kids found Ee words everywhere, even on LF's shirt!

Today we honored the letter Pp.

This was too funny!  I had to post it immediately before I lost it.

The kids were brainstorming all sorts of words that start with Pp.  We had an impressive list going.

I called on one little boy (BP), and he offered the word pus.  I was a bit stunned.  I said, "Well, it's kind of yucky, but it does start with Pp."  I then wrote it on the list.

The young man became a bit defensive and said, "It's not yucky.  My brother eats it for breakfast in the morning!"

I was still confused until Mrs. Fisher and I were chatting later.  She figured out he meant Puffs. 

Too cute!

Where is Mr. Grumpy?

     With the help of our college friend, Miss T., the kids took my Animal puppet (Mr. Grumpy) around the school to various locations and took a few pictures of him.  They then were able to choose which picture they wanted to include in our class book.  About 2/3 of the kids have completed their rough drafts, so I started putting the book together on Blurb.com.  It is looking so cute.  When it is complete, you will be able to go on, see a preview of it, and purchase it, if you want to do so. This is not a fundraiser. . .just an opportunity to purchase a class book.  We will probably do 1 or 2 more before the year is out.  Here is one of the pictures.  Thank you to NS for his photography skills!

O is for Octopus!

Friday was letter Oo day.  We learned about this interesting creature of the sea.


Here are a couple of cool video clips I shared with the kids to pique their interest.

Coconut Octopus


Sneaky Squeezer

We then made little octopus windsocks and wrote some octopus facts.

Ohhhhh October!

It's hard to believe the kids have been in school for a month, but here comes October, one of my favorite months of the year.  I look forward to science lessons about floating and sinking.  The kids usually think the big pumpkin will sink and the baby carrot will float.  They are surprised when we actually test them.


There is so much to write about this month. . .  bats, spiders, pumpkins, scarecrows, and of course, Halloween.


This week we'll spend a lot of time making connections to books that are shared in class.  I'll be asking kids this question, "What does this story make you think of?"  We'll go on to decide if these connections are text-to-self, text-to-text, or text-to-world.  Try this with your child at home!