Happy 100th day!

We are 100 days smarter! Here are our 100 day math centers:

100 stickers hats

Roll the dice until you get to 100 on the game board.

Counting by 10s snakes

Decorating 100s glasses

100 fruit loop necklaces!

Welcome back!

Welcome back from vacation week! We began learning about the ice age today and can't wait to find out more! Here are some of our literacy centers for the week:

Make a book center- write about a birthday party, a trip, or valentines day!

Calling base camp- the ice age version. What did you see in the ice age?

Trick word bingo

Roll a trick word- which word won in your game?

Mango observation center. The monkey in the amazon was throwing mangos! Use the vocabulary words to sort and describe the mango- hard or soft, heavy or light, solid or liquid, smooth or bumpy.

Chapter summaries

We have been working on chapter summaries every other day, and they are getting more and more detailed!

It wasn't absolutely silent when the treehouse landed.

Annie was playing with the baby jaguar behind the bushes.

Peanut led Jack and Annie to the treehouse. Annie played with the baby jaguar.

The monkey yanked the tail of the jaguar.

Peanut saved Jack and Annie.

Write along

Here's one of our riddles this week- what do you call a small valentine?

valen-tiny!

Rainforest layers projects

In groups of 2 or 3, children have been working on different layers of the rainforest. We spent one session making trees, vines, leaves, and roots, and another session working on animals that might live on each layer. 

Rainforest one!

Rainforest two!

Fact books

Some of our many amazing facts from background knowledge week!

Jaguars eat anything that comes to the forest floor. 

Jaguars are predators on the forest floor. 

Rainforests are misty. 

Jaguars can climb trees. 

Write along

A riddle from our write along this week- Why did the clown wear bananas on his feet?

Because he wanted slippers!

Math games

Here are a few of our new math games this week. 

Bingo minus 1- partners roll a die and subtract one to get bingo.

Making snakes with pattern designs for our rainforest. 

Creation station take 2! Partners use creation cards with unifix cube creatures on them, and the builder has to build the creation according to the architects directions. 

Groups use pattern cards of movements like snapping, clapping, and knee slapping to create a pattern. The groups have to follow the patterns and decide if it is indeed a pattern. Trickier than it looks!

Magic hat- the magician chooses a number card, and both partners place that many bears on their magician's table. The magician hides a few bears under his hat, and the audience has to figure out how many bears are hidden. Each person writes a number sentence on his board, writing the sum first. 8=3+5.