February 11 - 22 ... Valentine's Day and Reviewing

Creating beautiful Valentine heart

trees for our families.

Each Valentine Mailbox was unique

and beautiful. I hope you had fun

with your family creating the boxes.

Clipboard cruising for words on hearts.

Fill in the missing letters.

Find the matching initial sound.

Cut out, glue on and color.

Color sight words by code.

Our Valentine pictures.

It was fun posing for the

pictures!

Happy belated Valentine’s Day!

Some learning centre time fun!

A close up of the building structure.

The boys asked if I would take a

picture for them.

The whiteboards are a favorite

activity. We always do some words,

letters or numbers and then have a

little time to be creative.

Creating a book about Friends.  

Working together to

build a floor puzzle.

Creating with the Lego.

Magnetic creation fun!

Some outdoor pictures!

February 4 - 8 ~~~~ The Hat by Jan Brett

Our hallway display area … working on

 guided writing where children are

 expected to write the sight words,

 will guidance leave spaces and write

 down the sounds they hear in unknown 

words and end their writing with

 a punctuation.  

We have been working on an

 active hallway for the students as

 they move from one area to another. 

 Thank you to Amanda McCarville 

for initiating this project.

Blain Buchanan Signs and Trophies 

graciously donated the vinyl for some of 

the designs on the floor. (feet, hands, dots, etc)

 Thank you Blain.

The Hat … help Lisa get her clothing

 back from the animals.  Take turns

 picking a card. Who will get all

 the clothing back for Lisa first?

Color and cut out the pieces from

 the story.  Put in an envelope

 and take home to retell the story 

with your family.

Spell the characters and clothing

 articles with the letter tiles.

Count and record the hidden 

shapes in the hat. Decorate the

 hat any way you wish.

Whiteboard work… first we worked

 on number formation and number concepts.

 Then we have a few minutes to draw.

The retelling of The Hat … 

everyone present had a part of

 illustrating the story.

I thought it would be nice to add

 a little fun to our math.  We have been

 working on the same, more or less. 

So I set up some chairs and some children

 were on my train and then I had the

 children make another train with more

 children on it, less children on it.  

I discovered they knew the same

 and more quite well but were unsure of less.

Some learning centre pictures!

January 28 - Feb 1st ~~~ Finishing up The Mitten by Jan Brett

Roll the character cube. Which

character from The Mitten will

race to the finish.

Mittens! Mittens!  Use the

materials and decorate the

mittens any way you wish.

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Clipboard cruising with words

from The Mitten!

Fill a mitten and record

how many items fit into

the mitten.  Fill with cars,

shells, blocks, etc

Working together to re-tell

the story.

Art time…. Cut out a mitten,

use any material you wish to

decorate your mitten.

The finished art wall!

We are working on guided

writing.  I forgot to take

A picture of our wall in the

hallway.

We learned a song about

the Groundhog and then

Created our own groundhog

homes to act the song out!

Did the groundhog see his

shadow on Sunday?

Some learning centre

time pictures!

I set up three stations

for Thursday.  Here are

the results of the magnetic

station.

The pattern block station.

Stringing beads station.

We have been learning

all about noticing how letters

are the same / different.

Kadee was our Star of

The Week.  For her teacher 

activity she chose

Doggie, Doggie Where is

Your Bone?