Creative Art was very interesting this week, as it is recycling week! The class loved creating a robot made out of tin foil, a wind chime made out of spoons, forks, and knife, a very cool sculpture made out of many different items, and finally, we decorated our new library mats. The mats have been a huge help during circle time, as the class was struggling to remember to stay in one spot. They all think it is really cool to have their own mat!

 

Math was all about shapes, counting, matching, and sorting. The class is getting so good at shape puzzles, counting up to 30, and sorting pennies by correlating number jars. We also have been playing lots of board games during station time that has a ton of counting incorporated. The class is really enjoying learning new board games. Logan has been such a great helper this week, he has one of the board games at home and has been very helpful teaching other friends how to play.

 

Writing has been so much fun this week. The class has been really having fun learning how to rhyme words and with "that." They are practicing their blending sounds. Molly, Taj, Olive, Gracie, Rowan, Taylor, Logan, and Dillon have really been grasping and are taking the steps to start to reading. The letters of the week are Rr and Ee. We have been practicing writing the letters of the week and learning words that start with R and E.

 

Science has been very exciting this week. Our class has added a classroom pet this week. It is a leopard Gecko, we have also been observing a caterpillar that has cocooned, that Rowan brought to class and finally we planted a pea garden that we are going to observe grow this week and next.  

Reading was informational this week, the class learned a lot about how to keep our world clean and healthy. We learned about what we can and cannot recycle, we learned how to save our earth, by conserving water, how to keep our air clean, try to walk or ride bikes instead of drive, clean up garbage off the ground, and bring your own re-useable bag to the grocery store. The books we read were, A box can be many things, Is there really a Human Race, and Kindness is Cool.

In music we did a really fun obstacle course while singing the song " I have got the whole world in my hands" and we did a recycling treasure hunt, the class found two things at a time that was recycled or you could re-use. They all had such great ideas and thoughts about what they found.