Oct. 26, 2010

Today was Red Day! We read the book, "Red is Best". We made our own red books that we can read ourselves. We read the story "Sophie got Angry...really, really Angry." Then we brainstormed ways that we can calm ourselves down if we are angry. We made pictures. On one side we wrote the word "Mad" in red and then drew something that made us mad. ON the back, we wrote in blue or green the words "Not Mad" and we drew something that calms us down. We had our hearing tested with the nurse. Our new letter was Gg. We had indoor recess. In art, we finished painting our sunflowers. In Writer's Workshop, we read a book called "When I Get Bigger." Then we wrote about what we want to do when we get a little bit bigger. We learned how to spell the word "see".

Oct. 25, 2010

We started our colors and shapes unit today. We read the book called "My Crayons Talk". Then we drew a picture showing what our crayons would say. We learned about the square today. We made a puppet and went on a square hunt. We also made patterns and pictures with squares. We went to gym today. Our new letter was Uu. We wrote about our long weekend in Writer's workshop. We read "Mouse Flies a Kite" in shared reading. We started to read our first chapter book. We read chapter one, The Real Hole, in the book "Two Times The Fun" by Beverly Cleary.

Fall Art Stations-Dot Painting Fall Trees

We used dot painters to create fall trees.

Fall Art Stations-Sponge Painting

We used square sponges and fall paint colors to create fall trees.

Fall Art Stations-Leaf Rubbings

We used crayons and leaf rubbing stencils to create fall leaf creations.

Fall Art Stations-Watercolor & Crayon Fall Trees

We used crayons to draw a fall tree. Later, we added the color for the leaves using watercolor paints. Our fall trees are beautiful!

Oct. 15, 2010

Today we had music and library. We read a fall nonfiction book. We drew a fall tree using crayons(we used these drawings later in our fall stations). We had read to self time. The pouches came home today with 3 new letters Hh, Ee and Bb. We had fall stations this afternoon. They included sponge painting fall trees, dot painting, watercolor painting and leaf rubbings. We had a fun day!