Dorie, our neighborhood volunteer

Here is Dorie busily working away!

Buddy reading

Today we read our chapter summaries from Pirates Past Noon to our partners.

Dissolving science lab

We have been reading lots of gingerbread men stories, and we were wondering why he couldn't just swim across the river. We did a science lab using sugar cubes, kool aid powder, skittles, and gingerbread cookies. Each pair of partners had to predict what would happen we when poured water into each cup. After our predictions, we got to test it out like real scientists! Ask your child what happened to each item!

Math centers

Here are our Venger shape pirates that we made during math centers

Week of December 17

Greetings! Here are our new centers this week:

Dramatizing
Beginning sound bingo
Word search
Book buddy card
Listening to The Gingerbread Pirates

We also did some great chapter summaries about Jack and Annie's adventures with pirates!

Number line hopscotch

Today we played a new game called number line hopscotch. The teacher (or eventually the team captain) will lay out number cards. The rest of the group has to do a motion and count along with the jumper. Today we started at 10 and counted up from there.

New centers

This week, our new centers include dramatization, tapping out and writing CVC words, listening to a story on CD, penmanship (writing our names in lowercase letters), and look and remember (looking at a picture and answering questions about it from a partner).

Graphics practice

These are some of our ladder letters.

Write along

Here is today's write along message- Polly the parrot pecks the pirate.

Pirates part 2

Look at our pirates and ships outside of our classroom!

Literacy centers

We have started new literacy centers this week- check out our center plans!

You can see the class with their clipboards getting ready to write their center word to remember what they are doing at that center.
The centers this week are:
Pirate Bingo dobbers
I have who has sounds
Prop making
Letter stamps
Letter memory

Pirates

This week we have been learning lots of facts about pirates. Check out some of our facts!

Word building

Here are some photos of us working on our first word patterns -ing, -Ike, -at. We have to build a word and read the whole list to our partner.

You can see two of us playing rock-paper-scissors to decide who will read first.