I can't believe that Christmas Break is already over and we have started the second semester of this school year. Time sure does fly by when you are having fun! Even though I fully enjoyed my time off, I did miss my little doodlebugs and I'm glad to be back in the swing of things... but...when is the next break?? :)
For the next month, our theme will be on Winter. What better choice since the weather in Georgia has gotten very very very cold. So cold in fact, that I am having to sleep in sweatshirts and wool socks. I could never survive living in the bitter, cold North with layers and layers of snow each day. I guess I can't complain too much. I believe it's going back up into the 60s.
MATH:
We played Snowman Bingo! Instead of numbers though, we worked on shapes.
We went on a snowflake hunt. I hid 10 snowflakes around the room. Each snowflake had a number on it. I chose 3 students at a time to go find whichever snowflake I asked for.
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I made each one out of a coffee filter |
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Once they were all found, I placed them all together on the board and we reviewed the numbers. |
We practiced positional words using snowmen on Popsicle sticks.
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This was "In Front" |
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This is "Above" As you can tell, they are very photogenic lol |
We tried to see how many snowmen we could jumped. We lined 10 snowmen up vertically and had each student jump to see how many snowmen they could jump. Unfortunately, I was not able to take pictures, but the snowmen looked just like the ones on the Popsicle sticks in the above picture.
Language and Literacy:
I had the students come up with words that reminded them of winter and wrote them on the board. Then I rewrote them on sentence strips and the next day we placed them on the word wall. Whenever I place words on the word wall, I have them tell me what letter they go under.
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I'm running out of room already!! There were too many words that start with "S" |
We talked about all the different types of clothes that we wear in the winter time. I printed out, laminated and cut out clothes and put them in a bag, When the students named a type of clothing, I pulled it out of the bag we spelled it, and hung it up.
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Sorry the picture is a bit dark |
We had a snowball fight! I cut out squares of paper and wrote a letter on each one. Then we crumbled the paper up and had a snowball fight. When my assistant said stop, the students grabbed a "snowball" and opened it up. When their name was called, they had to say what letter they had. fun huh? What kid wouldn't want to throw paper (snowballs) around ;)
SCIENCE:
We talked about what the weather is like in the Winter and made a Winter Weather Chart
We made snow!! Well... insta-snow. Just add water!
Then I added all the snow into the sensory table so they could play with it during center time.
EXTRA:
We ice skated to music! This was fun and no one got hurt!
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Sorry it's a little blurry |
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My sweet girls. AND they are dressed for the occasion. |
Ive started a new thing this semester called the "Morning Message" After we talk about calendar, I write down the day, month and year. Then I choose a child to tell me a special sentence and I write that down. I make sure to sound out every word while I'm writing it. They have really started getting good at sounding out letters.
During center time I had the students 1. make snowflakes out of coffee filters 2. cotton ball snowmen 3. make snowmen out of shapes 4. match the correct snowflake to the number. Unfortunately, I was so busy during center time, I was not able to take pictures but I will try to upload pictures of their cotton ball snowmen next week :)
Have a wonderful weekend!!
Joy Echols