Building Little Pig Houses

At the conclusion of our Three Little Pigs unit, the kids worked in pairs or trios to design and create a structure that would withstand the huffing and puffing of the wolf (my hairdryer dressed up a bit).

The planning, creativity, and team work made this one of my favorite events of the year.

Huffing and puffing to test out its strength!

Tasty Acorns!

A special thanks to Mrs. Thomas for bringing in items for us to make some delicious, edible acorns.
Here are some pictures of that event a few weeks back.  It was a fun fall snack.

Number Writing. . . It's way more fun with shaving cream!

A few weeks ago, we were practicing double digit number writing during math class using shaving cream.  The kids had fun.  The tables got REALLY clean, and the room smelled great when we were finished!

Cute Outdoor Pictures!

On Monday, the kids will participate in a full morning of Thanksgiving and colonial fun.

In one classroom, they will do a math patterning activity that will complete their Thanksgiving place mats.  These will be nice keepsakes for you.  Here are some of the outdoor shots that I took to use as the center of the place mats.

Aren't they cute?

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Silly Day

To celebrate the letter Ss, we had a silly day in the room.  The kids wore funny wigs, pajamas, crazy purple hair, backwards clothing and funky glasses.  Here is one little guy who was sporting some facial hair!

Nice mustache!

Monster Squeeze

     We've been playing one of the Everyday Math games called Monster Squeeze.
We have a paper version on our pocket chart, but there is also an online version.  Many kids played this game at the computer center last week.


     Kids usually like playing this game, and it can easily be adapted to make it more difficult.  A bit later in the year, we'll playing Monster Squeeze by 2s and 5s.


Check it out by clicking below:


MONSTER SQUEEZE

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.


Click Below and Enjoy!

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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