Pajama Day

The day before Thanksgiving was pajama and reading day in our classroom.  A very exciting day! 

In the morning we went to music.  When we got there I said to Mrs. R, “My students all forgot to get dressed this morning!”  She replied, “I’ll have to give them an Oops! slip.  Oops I forgot to get dressed!”  Everyone giggled, and then we noticed D’s bottom lip began to quiver.  We had to reassure him real fast that we were just kidding and he was not getting an Oops! slip! 

A was our snack helper that week, so she passed out the snack.  I let them eat it on their blankets which they thought was great fun!

The big excitement was getting to put all their little books they’d been making in their take home book box.  They spent a good part of the afternoon reading and organizing their books!

 

We have some very girly girls!  Pinkalicious!

 

 

In the afternoon we were lucky to have a special turkey snack donated by Gracie’s mom! 

So cute!  And healthy too!

Pajamas, books, and snacks…what’s not to like about that!

Not so furry pets…

Back in November we added some fish to our classroom!  They are glo fish, so they look really cool with the lights off!  When they arrived we talked about all the things you have to do to transfer them to the tank.

The kids helped keep track of the time for me.  Every hour we had to add more tank water to the bag to even out the temperature.  Finally we could dump them in!

For awhile the kids just wanted to sit and stare at them!  Finally we had to get back to other learning, but they still love to watch them! 

We have a “fish feeder” job that rotates each week.  Everyone has been very responsible remembering every day to feed them!  Just a pinch!

Princesses, Witches, and Spiders, Oh My!

Our Halloween Party was a big success thanks to all the donations and help from you!  Big shout out to Holly Hicks(Gracie’s mom) for coordinating it all!  It definitely gets the award for cutest food!  

The party games included Bingo,

making ghost windsocks,

giving a Clementine a faces,

and decorating bookmarks!

As you can see, they were busy!  Everyone was super cute in their disguises, even the “scary” ones!

It was a Happy Halloween!

The “I’m a Little Behind on Fall” Post

We have been busy doing our learning using all the convenient fall themes!  I promise I will write soon about the heart of what we do most days- Daily 5, Writer’s Workshop, Math Workshop, Calendar Math, and on and on.  Right now it’s just more interesting to share the fun stuff!  Let me tell you, there’s been A LOT of fun stuff!  We love when learning occurs without the kids even knowing it!  We sneak it in to new exciting ways, we’re tricky like that:) 

One naturally occurring theme in the fall is apples.  Most children have an apple orchard story to tell, and all of them like some sort of apple food whether it be the fruit, pie, sauce, or juice!  This year we brought in a variety of apples for the kids to taste and then let them pick their favorites.

      

         

       

                           

Red was the overwhelming favorite!  Green also seemed quite popular, and the kids did a great job of coming up with descriptive words(adjectives) for the taste of them.  Sour was among the most used! 

   

    

 

Lo and behold, we had a few yellow apple lovers!

   

After everyone declared their favorites, we used that information to graph.  We also practiced making patterns with apples, made an apple book to add to our book boxes, and read several stories about apples-fiction and nonfiction! 

This month we were also lucky enough to have the Walled Lake Fire department come out and do a presentation for us.  I know many preschools do this, and they will likely see it again in first and second grade, but they never seem to tire of seeing that big shiny truck!  It gives a friendly face to those otherwise scary looking firemen in uniform, and familiarizes the children with the purpose of each piece of equipment.

That was back when the weather was still nice!  No coats!

In other exciting happenings…we had our 40th day of school on Halloween!  Zero the Hero made another secret visit and left us a surprise!  On the 30th day of school he brought us zero shaped gummy candy(yum!).  This time he left us brand new pencils! 

  

The kids were so excited to use their new pencils they didn’t even care that they were writing numbers, tally marks, and counting coins!

 

What will Zero the Hero bring us next?  Stay tuned…