Ice Cream FUN

Last week the main story in our reading book was called Miss Jill’s Ice Cream Shop.  On Friday I decided to surprise the kids with a day filled with ice cream themed fun.  We began by reading a big book about how ice cream is made.

Then we did an activity that focused on facts/opinion about ice cream.  Students worked with a partner to read a sentence and decide if it was a fact or opinion.  This was the first time we have done anything like this so it was a bit tricky for a few of us!!! 

    When we were done we wrote our own fact and opinion about ice cream.

We also did a few problem solving activities.  This one involved using three flavors of ice cream (chocolate, vanilla and strawberry) to find out how many combinations there were for making a double dip cone.  There was also one that involved making a triple dip cone but I didn’t get any pictures of it!!!

To end the day we made ice cream.  Everyone brought a pair of gloves from home and we worked together with our friends to make a bag of ice cream.

After adding all the ingredients, we put our baggie inside a large bag of ice and salt and shook it.

Talk about some noisy fun!!!

Then we enjoyed our ice cream . . . yum, yum!!!

Scarecrow FUN

We welcomed in the month of November with some Scarecrow FUN.  All week long we did Scarecrow themed activities during center time to reinforce many of the skills we are working on.

Here’s just a few of the fun things we did . . .

Our Halloween Party

This weekend I’m playing catch-up!!!  After several busy weeks at home and with other responsibilities I am finally getting around to updating our class blog with pictures from all of the fun things that we’ve been doing.

Thanks to the planning of our fabulous room mom we had a GREAT Halloween party.  All of the kids were so excited to put their costumes on at the end of the day for our celebration.  We are so lucky to get to celebrate Halloween in our district.  I know there are lots of schools out there that don’t allow their kiddos to dress up!!!

Here’s a little peek at all my cuties and goblins . . .I even dressed up for the occasion . . . along with Miss Keckler and Mrs. Schmelzer.

We had so many special people join us for the festivities . . .

Fire Safety FUN

Last week was National Fire Prevention Week so we stayed busy learning all about fire safety. We read lots of books that taught us many important fire safety rules. One of our favorites was called Stop,Drop & Roll by Margery Cuyler. We also talked about what to do if our clothing caught on fire and the importance of having an escape plan and a family meeting place in case there really was a fire at our house.

All of our centers were fire themed , too!!!  Here’s a little peek at some of the fun things we did to review lots of the skills we have been working on in reading and math.

We also began learning how to apply what we have learned about addition and subtraction up to this point in our math series.  By using the numbers in a “number family” we wrote addition and subtraction sentences.

Octo-Bear FUN

This past week we welcomed October with some Octo-Bear themed fun.  All week long we did teddy bear themed activities to reinforce many of our first quarter skills. 

In math we worked with a partner to solve teddy bear math problems.  We took turns rolling a dice to find out how many bears were on the top and bottom of the bunk bed.  Then we added the teddy bears together to find out how many bears were on the bunk bed in all.

 

We used Gummy Bears to create our own addition math problems.     

We also used Teddy Grahams to find all of the combinations for 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10.  

We read lots of great bear themed books throughout the week.  Here were a few of our favorites . . .

On Monday we read The Very Cranky Bear and then did an activity where we had to recall what each animal gave the bear to cheer him up. 

We also read The New Bear at School and did a writing activity to go with it.  First we brainstormed a list of things a bear might do if he came to our school.

Then we used our graphic organizes to help us create a book of our own about a bear that goes to school.  We worked hard to write complete sentences and add details to our writing.

On Friday we read I Lost My Bear.  Then we became bear detectives and created our own book about all the places we might look if we lost our favorite teddy bear.  Everyone did such a great job using capital letters and punctuation marks.

  

On Friday we brought our own teddy bears from home.

We paired up with a friend and used a Venn Diagram to compare how our bears were the same and different.

We also made bear sentence wheels and practiced writing “Beary” good sentences.