It's Been a Gruff Week

This week we heard several different versions of the Three Billy Goats Gruff fairytale. On Monday we made goats from different shapes, complete with a fuzzy beard.

We made Trolls on Tuesday and they are scaring people off in the hallway.

Wednesday we retold the story using sequence pictures and we did our project while laying on our tummies. It was hard work to use different muscles!

We wrapped up our week by viewing some Youtube tutorials on watercolor painting and then water colored pictures of beautiful meadows.

Please remember to send in recipes by Monday so we can get started on our cookbook! And if you have any empty 20 oz. soda bottles we could use those for our stamp-painting project next week too. Thanks :)

Wrangling in the Southwest

We’ve enjoyed another week of southwest fun!  We built up our fine-motor skills on Monday by lacing a cowboy boot and coloring in the design with colored pencils.

 

 

Tuesday we created horse puppets complete with custom hats and bandanas.
More fine-motor work was done on Wednesday as we tore paper to make a scenic background for a cactus.
Thursday we made yet another page for our person books. It was also our cowboy/cowgirl dress-up day and it was a blast!

AM Cowboys & Cowgirls

PM Cowboys & Cowgirls

 All our “pardners” are displayed individually in their finest western wear on our photo gallery page.
Don't forget to about the FREE children's fair this Saturday at the elementary school gym from 9:30-11:30am.

Howdy Y'All!

Our Southwest unit is a lot of fun!  We are galloping, mosying, trotting, yee hawing, giddyuping and talking about snakes, javelinas, coyotes, and cacti. 

We created coyote suncatchers on Monday and have them decorating our classroom.

 

 

 

Tuesday we painted a javelina (wild, hairy pig found in the southwest) using forks! These are hanging in the hallway to add to the desert-like atmosphere.  On Wednesday we made a paper-chain snake. It was very tricky to make the links into circles vs. teardrops.

We really used our fine motor skills on Thursday to glue tons of beans & pasta onto an armadillo. That was a lot of work pardner!

 

 

 

Our cowboy day dress up day is next Thursday! Please use items you have at home to make a costume such as bandanas, hats, vests, etc. As always, no weapons ... we will not be having a showdown in our western area.

When I grow up...

We had more community fun in our classroom this week! We continued to enjoy our airport area and constructing in our science and discovery area.

On Tuesday we created a postcard with a special note for you. Be watching your mailbox for this!!

We filed community helper books onto the bookshelf because we were librarians on Wednesday.  We talked about the different “tools” and vehicles for each job.

Thursday we enjoyed our career dress up day and made our March Person Book page.
Be sure to check out the photo gallery page to see what careers we all selected!!

AM Workers

PM Workers

Here's what we've been doing...

The week of February 15th we learned about barnyard animals. We made a pig headband one day and a chicken life cycle the next day.

Then we created cows by dropping paint onto one half of the cow's body and pressing the paper in half to create symmetrical spots. We added the rest of the cow's body parts and the heard is grazing in our hallway.

We had several farm sets out to play with too!

Last week we learned about art and made beautiful pieces that are currently on display at the Edgerton Library until Friday morning. Just in case you aren't able to make it there, we have included a quick slideshow of our exhibit.

This week we began our unit on Community Helpers. We even have an airport area right in our classroom! We also have lots of little people transportation sets out to fly, drive, ride a train, etc. to imaginary destinations.

 

We have emergency personnel gear in the dramatic play area and have been rescuing fellow citizens.
There is now pvc piping in our science area, which we use to build all sorts of sculptures. There is also a fun foam and golf tee building set! 

Projects this week included a bakers hat and rainbow chip cookie, a doctor’s bag, a stop light, and a garbage & recycling sort. We’ll cover even more community helpers next week leading up to our

Career Dress-Up Day on Thursday, March 10th.

Remember we do NOT have school on Monday!!

We Heart This Week

Monday we made a pattern with hearts. We made a special valentine for you on Tuesday. Each one is completely unique and made with love. :) Wednesday we made a collage with different sized, colored, and shaped hearts. It’s so fun to do projects like this that allow everyone to create something similar yet different.

 We had a great time on Thursday passing out our Valentine’s to each other.

 

Everyone’s mailboxes were decorated so wonderfully!

We also played a bunch of friendship-themed games including bingo with pictures of all our friends!!!

Can you smell what we've got cooking?

We enjoyed our short week after our long weekend. This week we talked about foods around the world. We have three restaurant play areas in our classroom: Mexican, Italian & Chinese.

We made a shape taco on Tuesday-our Mexican day.  We like using fun ways to reinforce colors, shapes and numbers!! Wednesday we made a pizza counting/matching game for our Italian-themed day. Did you play it with your child yet? Simply choose a pizza slice from the bag and find the match on the pizza. Chinese was our theme on Thursday and we made fortune cookies. We selected a fortune to put inside and laced it up.

Next week are back to our regularly-scheduled 4 day, Monday-Thursday week. Yay!!