Year in Review!

We've had a lot of fun this past year. I'm going to be sad for the children to move onto first grade, but I am happy that they learned so much!

Classroom Community

As I reflect on this past year, an obvious observation that I make is that I can tell that the kids and I have made a strong classroom community this year. Everyone feels comfortable making mistakes, taking risks and caring for one another. It has been a great year and I look forward to seeing the kids excel next year!

We can S-P-E-L-L !!!

As the students were completing their work in January, Gerardo wanted to share his ability to spell his name...with his eyes closed! Go G-E-R-A-R-D-O!!!!!

Sea Monkeys!

Leilani asked if she could bring her Sea Monkeys to school. Being that I am teaching early childhood, I thought it would be a great way to intrinsically motivate the students to create rich language opportunities, enhance writing skills and enable the children to ask questions and learn about new ideas.

Before Leilani shared the Sea Monkeys with the children, the students wrote predictions about what they thought the Sea Monkey looked like.

Leilani shared that the Sea Monkeys love the sun. She feeds them algae to crave their hunger and to keep them healthy.



After learning about the Sea Monkeys, the children returned to their seats and wrote about two things that they learned about the Sea Monkeys.

Thanks to Leilani for sharing her treasure!

Health

This past week, my class was afforded the opportunity to have Eric Bengston come to visit out class and talk about health! He spoke to us about green-light, yellow-light and red-light foods! We now know that we need to eat as many fruits and vegetables as we can! We also learned that you can either pay now, or pay later! We think that it is very important to eat good, healthy foods!

We Use the Smart Board to Help Us Learn How to Read!

We write on the Smart Board. Sometimes, we even ask the Smart Board if it can read our sentences! My favorite activity on the Smart Board is when we click the frog and it spits out words like "the," "like," "to," "come" and "he." We read words and then we click the box and pictures appear!

My favorite activity on the Smart Board is the Matching Game. It is a memory game.

The Smart Board helps us learn about animals, money, spelling and counting.

We love the Smart Board because we get to use the Smart Board everyday!

Thank you for the Smart Board.

The Smart Board is beautiful and it helps us to become good readers!

What happens when you put wood in water?

We filled up some tubs with water and got out our wood samples to see what would happen to the wood when placed in water! What do you think happened? .... You guessed it! IT FLOATS!