Centers week of Jan 28

Happy Monday! Her are some of our literacy centers for the week:

-Word building with word patterns
-Calling base camp
- guess that rainforest animal
- look and remember
- writing a book about myself
- acting out

Ask your child where he or she went today and what the activity was at that center. While children Are busily working at centers, I have begun taking groups of children to start leveled reading groups. Today, we finished working on our secret decoder game, a game in which children use a "secret decoder" to help find a word pattern and sound out the whole word.

Science lab

How can we melt an ice cube? Each pair of children had an ice cube in a cup. They guessed how much water would end up in the cup once the ice cube melted. Each child marked a line on the cup where the water might be once the ice was melted- we were surprised at the results! We tried blowing on the cube, shaking the cup, putting tissues over the cup, breaking the ice into smaller pieces, and squeezing it. Some ice cubes melted, and some did not!

Write along

We have now switched from tricky tongue twisters to riddles. Check out our amazing writing!

The tongue twister here was our last one- Nelson has nine new noisy neighbors.
Our riddle today was- where does a sheep get a haircut? At the baa ber shop!