On Monday we started our Halloween week by doing our Q-tip skeleton arms. The students came over and I painted their hand white then I created their arm with the white paint. Then the students had to go over the paint with a line of liquid glue and line their arm with Q-tips to show the "bones". In music we were able to audition for the solos for the music program. Also today we got to cash in our DOJO points from last week for our prizes. A lot of our friends decided to choose either the treasure chest or to eat lunch with an older friend or Mr. B in his office! AWESOME! They are loving this DOJO program and I am as well! :) | |
| On Tuesday we created our H is for Horse projects. We are really getting good at following directions and cutting things nicely. At the beginning of the year we were having a hard time with doing our work slowly and nicely. We have gotten a lot better. :) As we did a really quick lesson on how to wash our hands properly - how much soap and to get all of the germs off --> instead of not washing your hands or just washing with water. So we talked about how you want one pump/a nickel size of soap and then to scrub all over tops and bottoms of hands. To show them the "germs" that we have on our hands we had a discussion and then took it to the bathroom. I brought glitter into the bathroom and put it all over wet hands of all the students. It was their goal to get all the glitter/"germs" off by washing their hands with soap and water. This helped them have the visual as well as having some fun with glitter. |
On Wednesday we started our centers - talked about below. The kids are doing well in them so far and are working hard to learn our schedule. We are working on letters, sentence writing, sight words, finger spacing, etc. They are trying their best and that is all that I ask. :) Through centers we play games, write on whiteboards, etc. Thank you as well to the older friends in 2nd grade for helping some of our 4K friends outside keep on task and making sure they are safely inside! You girls rock! :) | |
CENTERS This week I am very excited to announce we have started our centers, and I am very proud of my kids because they have done really well learning the routine. The way that our centers in 4K work is as follows: there are four groups that I have created based on their assessment results and what they need to work on. The four centers that we go through during our late morning are: Center A: back table with Ms. Luce where we really hone in on what they need to work on in different ways than just pencil and paper, but we do that as well. Center B: Working on writing our letters, writing our names (first and last), and sight words. Center C: Writing/Math center - working on our numbers, writing numbers, working on counting, etc. Mrs. Johnson is at this center helping the students. Center D: Tablets - I have added apps to our tablets that I have used with my classes over the years that have really helped them with letters, sight words, etc. This coming week will be our second week of centers, so our third week of centers the students will be able to use their ABCMOUSE.COM accounts that I am setting up for them. The students are doing really well with these centers and have adapted well. This does not mean that we have gotten rid of our letter a week - we still have that right away before centers for everyone - review or first time seeing the letter/sound in a formal setting. Then the centers allow for me to dig deeper into their needs - differentiating instruction. We have four groups, four centers, and two rotations a day - four times a week. This way I can meet with all students twice a week and everyone gets to each center.
| On Thursday. we got our feet a little messy, well one of our feet. We made some ghosts with our feet. We also had to make a "scary" Halloween scene with a tree and a moon for our happy ghosts to be on. They did a great job listening and working while we were doing feet! Our friend Johnny found a "baby" slug at recess and gave it a nice/safe home on the pumpkin by the door. |
On Friday School Wide and Class Halloween Party. We got to wear our costumes all day, how awesome! :) We had some handsome and beautiful monsters, animals, princesses, ponies, etc. We had a fun recess this morning, we had a lot of treats from friends today and we got to hang out with Mrs. Mrotek today. Thank you Connie for coming in to see us and play with us today! :) As well Mrs. Ledvina
(Ash's mom) came in to see us for our movie as a witch and we loved having her here to help and see our classroom and see all of us. Thank you Nancy for coming! :) The movie we got to watch was Monster's University and by the giggles you can tell the Frozen openning that they are loving this treat! Mr. B picked our last Cold Stone chip winners for Monday and from our class Eli was chosen! YAY way to go Eli! :) Congratulations to all friends in 4K that got cow chips. We had a great and fun filled scary day! This morning we made some Halloween pictures and handed out our snacks/Halloween treats - they are in a gallon plastic bag in your child's backpack. :) Thank you to all that sent a treat to share :).
(Ash's mom) came in to see us for our movie as a witch and we loved having her here to help and see our classroom and see all of us. Thank you Nancy for coming! :) The movie we got to watch was Monster's University and by the giggles you can tell the Frozen openning that they are loving this treat! Mr. B picked our last Cold Stone chip winners for Monday and from our class Eli was chosen! YAY way to go Eli! :) Congratulations to all friends in 4K that got cow chips. We had a great and fun filled scary day! This morning we made some Halloween pictures and handed out our snacks/Halloween treats - they are in a gallon plastic bag in your child's backpack. :) Thank you to all that sent a treat to share :).