Second week of My Community unit

Well, the week got off to a bit of a rough start with all the rain but we definitely made up for it with all the great things we did this week!

 

 

We started out the week with lots of letter Oo practice. They did their letter Oo entry in their letter books...

 

...a color by letter activity that revealed an uppercase O...

 

... and a letter Oo collage that helped them practice the letter Oo sound.

 

 

Because the children all looked so fancy on picture day, we thought we would take a fun group picture.

 

 

For cooking, we decorated cookies like bakers. We even got help from our buddies (Mrs. Adams' first grade class)!!

 

 

 

Each day we have had one of our APEX friends come in to visit. They teach use a new lesson (be brave, find your strengths, etc.) and then pass out prizes to those that have entered pledges.

 

We made an octopus for our letter Oo craft.

 

We practiced differentiating between uppercase and lowercase Oo by cutting and sorting Oo's.

 

To finish up our week, we had a few special visitors that came to talk with us about safety. The firefighters...

 

... and a police officer!

 

We even got to go out and see the fire truck!!

 

The children got to go through the back seat of the truck and see the inside of the truck!

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Poyzer

 



My Community unit

Although this week was only 4 days long, we still learned a lot!

 

 

We started talking about scientific tools like magnifying glasses, magnets, and scales. We focused on magnifying glasses by learning to use them and by learning what we use them for.

 

 

 

For one of our art projects, we made a city skyline by attaching black rectangles to our background and using wet chalk to add details like windows and a moon in the sky.

 

 

 

We played a review game to practice our sight words. The children listened for a sight word and raced against the other teams to see who could write the word first.

 

 

 

For cooking, we made Name Letters. We used graham crackers for our "envelope", a piece of square cereal for our "stamp" and cheese crackers with letters on them for our "address".

 

 

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Poyzer



Last week of All About Me

This week we finished our All About Me unit. The children loved learning about the heart, lungs, brain, and bones!

 

While working on the number 5, we introduced tally marks by doing a Timmy Tally Mark activity.

To learn about the lungs, the children tried to blow up balloons...

and a few even succeeded!

We played a game called Rotten Apples where each child took a turn flipping a number card and, if they could identify the number, they got to keep it!

We made Bread Men out of bread, red-tinted cream cheese, and a cinnamon sprinkle for the heart!

We used two flour-filled gloved, one with popsicle sticks to represent bones and one without, to discuss the importance of having bones.

We finished our Super Systems Men (on display in the hallway!) by adding the stomach, heart, lungs, bones, and brain!

We did an S is for Snake craft where the children practiced writing their letter Ss, then glued an S on and made it into a sparkly, sequined snake!

After talking about the brain, the children decorated a brain hat with pictures of things they like to think about.

They loved wearing them!!

 

Next week we start our My Community unit where the children will learn about different community helpers and occupations. We will also learn about some new science tools (magnifying glasses, magnets, and scales) and how we use them. Our letter of the week next week will be Dd, our number is 6, and our sight word is "and".

 

Have a wonderful long weekend!

Mrs. Poyzer



Week 2 of All About Me unit

Another amazing week of learning finished. We did so many fun activities to work on the letter Tt, the number 4, and the words it and at.

We started talking about the parts of the body by discussing hands. The children melted frozen "hands" to get to the "blood" in order to make a bracelet.

The children also reviewed the letters we've learned so far by putting letter sound puzzles together. 

We played Number Representation Bingo to practice the numbers we have learned so far.

We paired up and traced a friend before labeling the tracing swith body part labels.

We made face bagels in cooking by adding hummus, raisins for eyes, an apple slice for the mouth, and shredded carrots for hair.

We also talked about our stomachs and the job they do. We were able to model digestion by putting a saltine cracker in a bag, breaking it up to represent chewing, add water, and mush up to show digestion. They loved it!

Finally, we started work on our Super Systems man by cutting and gluing on his "stomach". The children are very excited to add his heart, bones, lungs, and brain next week!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Mrs. Poyzer

All About Me week 1

We had so much fun with the first week of our All About Me unit!

 

 

We made homemade whipped cream from heaving whipping cream and powdered sugar (so see how a powder can change a liquid to a solid).

 

 

We did a "write the room" activity where the children walked around their center area and found cards that told them where to write certain sight words to make a sentence before illustrating the sentence.

 

 

We talked about our 5 senses and made a Mr. Potato head model of our 5 senses.

 

 

We played I-Spy sight words where we used magnifying glasses to find tiny sight words in a picture before recording what we found.

 

 

We did mystery sight word puzzles where we put the puzzle together by ordering the letters or numbers on the bottom of each strip then read the sentence it created.

 

 

We also practiced telling the difference between uppercase and lowercase Nn by cutting out both types of the letter and sorting them out.

 

Next week we will continue our All About Me unit by talking about body parts and body systems, learning about the letter Tt, the number 4, and the words at and it.

 

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Poyzer

Third week of Rainbows

This past week was our last week of our rainbow unit. We did a lot of fun color related activities along with working on the letter Mm, the word "am", and the number 2.

 

 

When talking about the color black, we discussed how even neutral colors are made by mixing primary colors. We did an experiment where we put a bit of rubbing alcohol in a cup with a piece of coffee filter over the top. We added a pipe cleaner that had the bottom of it in the rubbing alcohol and the top coming through the coffee filter. We then added black dots to the coffee filter to see what would happen when the rubbing alcohol seeped up through the coffee filter and out to the edges. The rubbing alcohol actually pulled the lighter color molecules out to the edges and separated the color so show us that this black ink was made by mixing teal with magenta!

 

 

 

We continued to talk about how we can sort things by cutting out shapes and sorting them by the types of sides they had (curved sides, 4 straight sides, etc.).

 

 

 

We practiced mixing colors by putting two primary colors into Ziploc bags and mixing them around until they made a new color.

 

 

 

 

We also tinted cream cheese two different primary colors and stirred them together to make a new color before spreading it on rice cakes for our cooking project.

 

 

 

For art, we continued to review which colors could be made by mixing primary colors. We made color mixing ladybugs by using primary colored wings and matching them up to secondary colored bodies (these are hanging in the hallway if you would like to get a better look!).

 

 

 

We also practiced making our names by tracing each letter and then gluing rainbow colored dots on each (these are hanging on the cabinets in our classroom... see if you can find your child's!).

 

 

 

 

We also made "fireworks" by filling containers with water and adding a thin layer of vegetable oil to the top before dropping food coloring drops to the top. The food coloring drops slowing sunk through the vegetable oil and into the water where they "exploded" into a cloud of color!

 

 

 

Finally, we added food coloring and water to a small water bottle, then added vegetable oil to the top. We secured the lids and then allowed the children to shake them. They then set them down and observed what happened. They were surprised to see that, after letting them sit, the water and vegetable oil separated and kept separating after each time they shook them!

 

Next week we start our All About Me unit where we will talk about our five senses along with the number 3, the letter Nn, and the words "an" and "in".

 

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Poyzer



Week 2 of Rainbows

Another great week of learning! We continued learning about colors and color mixing by making blue slime with borax, water, and glue. We then mixed yellow slime in with it to see that blue and yellow make green.

 

 

 

For cooking, we made rainbow toast by "painting" bread with tinted water then toasting it!

 

 

We started learning about the various ways to sort (by color, attribute, size, etc.) and practiced with Legos.

 

 

We talked about absorption by putting red, blue, and yellow water into three containers and putting a strip of paper towel between those containers and the empty ones between. The colored water "climbed" the paper towel and moved into the empty container next to it. As the colors moved into the empty containers next to it, they mixed with the other primary colors to form a model of a color wheel!

 

 

We also froze colored water into ice cubes then put two primary colored cubes into a cup. We added salt to speed up the melting and watched to see them mix into a secondary color.

 

 

So far we have learned the letters Ii and Aa and will introduce the letter Mm next week. We also have learned the numbers 0 and 1 the last two weeks and will move on to the number 2 next week. We have been working on reading color words along with the words "I" and "a". We will work on the word "am" next week.

 

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Poyzer