Monday Feb 2nd: Snow day (no school)
Tuesday Feb 3rd:
*Science (w/ Ms. Lynn C): Today we made an estimate of how many Box Tops were we thought were in the container. We then counted them, putting them into piles of 10. We then counted by 10's. We have 132 Box Tops this week! :) We read the book, "Who Will See Their Shadow This Year?" (by: Jerry Pallota). We then made groundhogs (using glue and construction paper).
*Spanish: Please see Senora Mary's blog!
*Art: String painting. Please see Mrs. L's blog for more details.
*Cape Cod Alphabet Book: We started the letter D (dunes) page
Wednesday Feb 4th:
*Poetry: We illustrated our "penguin shuffle" poem.
*Buddies: Book: The Emperor's Egg (by: Martin Jenkins). We acted out parts of the book (how the penguins waddle, the male penguins walk with the egg and how penguins huddle together to stay warm. The children then played in the first/second grade classroom.
*Cape Cod Alphabet Book: We are continuing to work on the D (dunes) page
Thursday Feb 5th: We started talking about the parts of a penguin (flippers, beak/bill, webbed feet and feathers). The children cut out the words and glued the words in the correct places and then colored a penguin.
*Sports Plus: See Mrs. B's blog for details
*Cape Cod Alphabet Book: We finished the letter D page.
Friday Feb 6th: Today we created our own penguin, using tempera paints (white, black, yellow and orange). We talked about the shapes we see in a penguin (oval/circular bodies with a triangle like shape for a beak and a semi circle for feet. The children then did a small writing activity to go along with them. **See "science" tab for more information/pictures.
We started learning the words to our next patriotic hymn, This Land Is Your Land.
Music: (with Mrs. B): See Mrs. B blog for more details
Today, Mrs. B, took the class down to the big room to watch the tail end of the terrapin (turtle) presentation that the elementary school had.
Buddies: We went to visit our Buddies today. We got to play in their room, in the art area and on the rug using cars and manipulatives. We then stayed for lunch, having a picnic in their classroom.
Pictures: Top: Listening as Mrs. Taylor read the story Emperor Penguin to us. We learned about what it means to "huddle" to stay warm. We also learned about what it means to "regurgitate", as this is how the mommy penguins feed the chick. Bottom: L-R: Lunch with Buddies, "Frank" the squirrel, terrapin presentation