Apples, Apples, Apples

 I hope everyone found the permission slip and information page in their student's binders last night for our upcoming field trip next Thursday!  We are beyond excited about our first field trip!  Please get your permission slips turned in ASAP!  

 In preparation for our big trip next week we have been incorporating apples in too a lot of our lessons this week and we are having a blast! 

 We dissected an apple and then labeled the different parts of the apple!

 After learning the different parts of an apple we read and listened to the book, “Ten Apples up on Top” by Dr. Seuss!  After reading this fun little apple book we made our own Ten Apples on Top pictures that we're going to put out on our bulletin board next week!

 How cute are these little apple heads?

 At the end of the day today, we taste tested apples then graphed our favorite color apple between red and green.  I will be blogging about this lesson soon as well as our lesson tomorrow where we will make our own Applesauce!  By the time we head out to Sky Top Apple Orchard next week, we will be little experts on everything there is to know about Apples!!!  

Remember to keep an eye out for a blog post about our Applesauce adventure as well as our Taste-testing from today!

Habit #6 and Learning through Play

Today we learned about Habit #6, Synergize "Together is Better" during our Leader in Me Lessons.  We used the book, "Memoirs of a Goldfish" to understand that when we all work together using each other's strengths, we get much more done!  After reading the book and talking about the Beginning, Middle, and End, we colored our own fishbowls and then made a classroom fishbowl with handprint fish representing each student!

  Getting our hands messy and having a blast!

 I am obsessed with how cute our classroom fishbowl turned out!  It looks amazing, and I love how it represents each of our students that make up our classroom!  

 We have also been having a blast learning through play during our developmental centers!  This is probably one of my favorite parts of the day to watch the students interact socially with each other and use their imaginations to create amazing projects!

 A small look in to our classroom during this fun part of the day!

 The Science and Math Centers are two of the most popular centers during this part of the day!

 Art and painting have also become hotspots during this time of the day!

 Dress-up/Home-living is one of the centers that brings out the most imagination!  It's always a treat to listen/watch whats going on in this center!  This picture is of the girls pretending to be fashion models!  

I just cannot get over how cute they all are!  We are having a great week in room 150 and I hope everyone else is having a great week, too!  

Help!

We are running low on snack!  If you are able, we would really appreciate if you could send some in!  I can't say thank you enough for all the amazing parents we have and help that y'all do for us!  I hope everyone has a wonderful Monday!

Newsletters and Conferences

Just a reminder that our Monthly newsletters can be accessed here: Online Smore Newsletter  

I'll be sending it out via email monthly, so check your spam if you did not receive September's Newsletter last week!  If you do not have an email and would still like to have access to the newsletter just contact me and let me know and I'll print it out to send home with your child in their binder! 

Parent/Teacher Beginning of the Year Conferences

I sent a sign-up sheet home yesterday in everyone's binders for Parents to sign up for Beginning of the Year Conferences!  Please number your choices 1-3 (one being the most desired time) and I will try my hardest to work around your schedule!  Thank you for the quick responses I received back today, you should have a conference reminder sheet in your student's binder with the time and day I have scheduled for you from your top choices!  I can't wait to talk to each and everyone of you and to tell you about all the exciting things we have going on in our room that the students have been working on! 

Habit #4 - Think Win-Win

We have really been diving in to the 7 Habits of Happy Kids over the past two weeks!  We are up to Habit #4, Think Win-Win!  

After reading the story out of the 7 Habits book by Sean Covey we listened to "The Berenstain Bears, Showdown at Birder's Wood" to help understand what exactly it means to have a Win-Win mindset!

In the story, Brother and Sister Bear are trying to save a tree that has a Yellow Popping Jay Bird's nest (who are about to become extinct) from Too Tall and his Gang who want to use the tree for their new Clubhouse Fort.  The Bears know that the Yellow Popping Jay are close to extinction so the nest with eggs in it is very important to them.  However, Too Tall and his Gang really want a clubhouse fort so the tree is also very important to them!  In the end, Papa teaches the Bears about the word Compromise and how to be problem solvers by helping them come up with plans for an ULTIMATE TREE FORT!  However, in order for the Bears to give Too Tall and his Gang the plans for the ULTIMATE TREE FORT they must agree to build it in a different tree.  Therefore, everyone wins and it's a Win-Win situation!

  After reviewing and retelling the story, relating it to a Win-Win mindset we designed our own ultimate tree forts and what we would like for them to look like!  

 Please help encourage your students to keep Win-Win mindsets when at home and to always try to be problem solvers and compromise when they have an issue with friends or family!

 

 The Tree House Forts our students came up with are truly pieces of art!  I wish I had a tree house fort that looks like some of the ones our little architects came up with! 

 

 

 

 I am so proud of my little problem solvers and hope they all continue to have Win-Win Mindsets for the remainder of the year!

Shape Pizzas!!!

 We had so much fun today during our math block making "Shape Pizzas" using circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles!  My little pizza bakers did an amazing job, and really got in to adding the toppings to their pizzas!  I (almost) wish we would have baked real pizzas!  

 Happy Pizza Bakers!

 After adding our toppings we had to count up how many of each shape we used on our pizzas!  This was a great time to practice writing their numbers!  

 Sydney and her happy little shape pizza!

Habit Number 1 - Be Proactive

This week we have been working on Habit #1 of the 7 Habits of Happy Kids.  The 7 Habits are leadership qualities all students can learn.  Developing these leadership skills will prepare students for the future and to become leaders in their own lives!  After reading the story from the 7 Habits book we also read and compared "The Rainbow Fish" to someone/something living a proactive life.  The Rainbow fish choose to be a good friend by giving his scales away to the other fish and therefore was being proactive in his life.  To go along with this lesson we made these adorable Rainbow Fish of our own!

 This happy little Rainbow Fish turned out great!  

 We have also been working with our names a lot this week, not only how to spell them and which letters to use, but also how many letters are in our names!  After doing this adorable "Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom!" activity we sang the song and then made a class graph!  Turns out most of the students in our room have 6 letters in their names followed by 5 letters!   

  Chicka, chicka, boom, boom!  Will there be enough room?  

 This are just adorable, I love the addition of their hand prints as the tops of the trees!  

 We sent these home today, so keep an eye out in your student's folders for these today!  

I hope everyone is having an awesome week!  Happy Wednesday eve!