Stone Soup!

Today, we made our stone soup. Each student poured the item they brought into the soup. Also, every student had a chance to stir the soup. In the afternoon, we set out our place mats. We enjoyed the soup, goldfish crackers, and chocolate chip cookies. We also had apple juice to drink. It was a great feast! Happy Thanksgiving!

Making our soup



Enjoying our soup





We also made cornucopias today

Place Mats

We read the classic story "Stone Soup," and we are making stone soup tomorrow! Each student is bringing one item for the soup, just like the characters in the story. Today, we made place mats for our delicious meal. We wrote "Happy Thanksgiving" on our mats and used markers and stencils to decorate it. They loved the stencils! It was so quiet in the room as they concentrated on their drawings. :-) Stay tuned for pictures of the soup-making process tomorrow!

Peanut Butter and Jelly

We read a story called "Peanut Butter and Jelly." It's a great story about making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's even set to a song. Today, we wrote out the steps for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. We decided what step would come first, second, and so on. In the afternoon, we followed the steps and made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. We worked with a partner. When we were finished, we realized that we only had one sandwich and two partners! However, they knew just what to do. Cut the sandwich in half and share. I was so proud. :-)
We also celebrated J's 6th birthday. He brought in delicious cupcakes yesterday. Here he is in his birthday crown:

Writing the steps for making a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich




Making the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with their partners





Sharing

Enjoying the sandwiches

Popcorn Party!

We filled another spirit stick with lassos! We had a popcorn party to celebrate. We enjoyed the popcorn and watched a Berenstain Bears DVD. We had a great time! :-)

Fun with the SMART Board

They had fun with the SMART Board in library today. They have been learning about how to take care of books. The students know what are "Yes, Yes, Always, Always" choices for books and what are "No, No, Never, Never" choices for books. They played a fun game where a picture would pop up on the SMART Board. The students would put their heads together and decide if the picture was a "Yes, Yes, Always, Always" or a "No, No, Never, Never" choice. Then, Mrs. Baker would pick a friend to come circle the correct answer on the SMART Board. The best part was the cool sound effects when they were correct!

Two video clips of them playing the game (we had technical difficulties in the first clip)


Some pictures of the fun

We've Been Busy!

Things have been very busy in our classroom. We made turkeys with beautiful feathers and labeled the parts of the turkeys. They did the labeling all on their own and did great! We have also been working on -at words in reading groups. We cut out -at turkeys, and they wrote -at words on the feathers (cat, bat, mat, etc.)
In math, we made another class graph. We figured out how many letters were in our names and graphed them. We have long names in our class! We found that 6 letter names had the most and 4 letter names had the least. We also learned how to play a new game in math called, Cover All. The students play with a partner and each partner has a blank grid and some counters. They roll the dice and place the correct amount of counters on the grid. The first person to fill up their grid wins. It gets tricky near the end because they need to get the exact number to fill it.

The labeled turkeys



Cutting out our -at turkeys

The finished -at turkeys

Our name graph

Playing Cover All in math

Computer Lab

We went to the computer lab for the first time today. We practiced logging in with our user names and passwords. Then, we played on the website www.starfall.com. It's a great website where they can practice their letters and sounds. Also, they can work on letter blends and reading. We had a great time, and they are already excited for next week's computer lab!
In math, the students worked with partners to order number cards from 0-20. They did awesome! I was so proud of them.




Working together to get the cards in number order from 0-20

We are Reading!

We have been reading a book a week in reading centers. They are filled with sight words and words we can stretch. We work really hard at our reading and wanted to share it with you. Unfortunately, one of the groups video clips did not turn out, but I will try to get another one of them up within the next week.
We also played a really fun game in math centers called "Spin a Number." It's played just how it sounds. The students spin a number (#'s 1-10) and move their counter that many spaces. The first person that arrives at the finish line wins.

The two groups reading


A group playing "Spin a Number"