Friday, September 26, 2014

Farms and calendar books

Math center: tally practice

Geometry center: Shape Bump

Math free choice center: roll a dob

Literacy center free choice: trace, write, and stamp names

Math free choice center: number puzzles

Addition center: adding eggs

Addition center: roll and count with a double die

Literacy center free choice: color by sight word

Geometry center: color by shape and graph

Infinite math center: patterning

Counting center: piggy ten frames

Math center free choice: farm count and clip

Math center free choice: tracing to develop fine motor skills 

Listening center and response 

Farmer anchor chart

Mud adjective web that we used to help write our poems (from Deanna Jump's farm unit)

Using a prop to retell the story "Mrs. Wishy Washy"

Comparing numbers with Ally:

Calendar book pages (From Growing Kinders):
We sing this song a few times a week to reinforce letter sounds


We do a daily news each morning.  Here is a sample of one completed daily news:

Whew!!  That was a lot :). Can't wait to start learning about firefighters and fire safety next week!!

























Thursday, September 25, 2014

Apples, shapes, and Reader's Workshop

Shared writing about how to make apple sauce.




Anchor charts from our first unit of Reader's Workshop called "Blasting Off with Reader's Workshop".



Exploring shapes with toothpicks and play dough!!

Using shapes to make other shapes.

Next post about Calendar Books and farms.  :)