Wrapping up Eric Carle...

Today was our last day to do our Eric Carle author study!  We've had so much fun learning about Mr. Carle, his amazing illustrations and books, and doing our activities!  Here are a few pictures from this week...

 

For Rooster's Off to See the World we completed a math page counting the animals in the story.  It also helped us with our number sight words!

Brenden

Dillian and Marcus

Madeline

Liberty

For The Mixed-Up Chameleon the children colored a chameleon to put up in the classroom, but it had to cameoflauge to the environment!  The kids LOVED this activity and did such an amazing job!

Akaylin and Abby

Charlesha

Pierce's chameleon is super creative!!!!  It is on the ceiling! :)

For The Very Quiet Cricket the kids used different textures (sandpaper, a grater, and velcro) to create their own cricket.

Miss Craig, Olivia, Cooper, Marcus and Andy 

Finally, our last Tiny Seed activity was to create a flower and label the parts...

We've had so much fun in...

Happy Friday!
Love,

Planting...

To continue our Tiny Seed activities, today we planted our very own flowers!  Since Miss Craig is doing her full time teaching, I pulled friends out into the pod to complete our activity! :)  They had a blast!  Be sure to check out Amelia's video with her explaining exactly what we did!

Our inspiration!  I found packets of "Butterfly and Hummingbird" seeds in the dollar section at Target!

Our materials!

A special thank you to Mrs. Waldrop for the potting soil!  And to Mrs. Roberts for finding the all-important clear cups (so we can see the roots)!  Thank you for helping make our activities possible!!!

Andy

Olivia

Liberty

Marcus and Charlesha

Christian and Pierce

Angel

Akaylin

We put our "pots" on our small red shelf by the back door.  We will leave the curtain open for the plants to get sunshine!

Amelia explaining what we did and why! :)

I cannot wait for you to see our last planting activity!  I found this great idea on a fellow teachers' blog and had to do it!  Coming next week!

Happy Wednesday!

Love,

Science Experiment!

Today, Miss Craig did a science experiment with the kids.  To go along with The Tiny Seed (more Tiny Seed activities coming later in the week), they took white flowers and immersed the stems in food coloring.  They made a hypothesis or prediction as to what they think will happen!

Predictions

Charlesha and Madeline

Blue and Red food coloring.

Brenden

Andy and Pierce

Brenden, Liberty and Amelia

The flowers are now in our science center for us to observe each day!  I will post a results posting! :)

Butterfly Update...

I am only photographing 1-2x per week!  But over the weekend they grew so much! 

Happy Tuesday!

Love, 

Caterpillars and Eric Carle...

As we continue our Eric Carle author study, here are some more activities we've been working on!

For A House for Hermit Crab the kids each chose a shell for their hermit crab and decorated it.  They then wrote "If I was a hermit crab, I would decorate my shell with..." and they had to write what they used!

A couple of examples!

Cooper and Ally

Amelia

Abby

Dillian

Pierce

For Ten Little Rubber Ducks they took tissue paper and decorated a duck.  Then filled in the blank:

"My rubber duck drifted by a ______________."

We will display the ducks in our classroom!

Angel, Christian and Marcus

Close up of Angel adding his tissue paper!

Also today, to go along with The Grouchy Ladybug and our upcoming DIBELS assessments, I found a ladybug nonsense word sheet!  We did one of these for President's Day and the kids love it so I thought we'd try again!  They are really grasping those nonsense words and blending!  I am so proud!

Mrs. Kimbrell made an example to show with the directions but then it disappeared so that they would have to read those words! :)

Olivia and Rosie working hard!

Akaylin

Christian and Levi

Cooper and Pierce

Finally--yesterday afternoon we had a special package delivered--our caterpillars!  I saved them for this morning and the kids were so excited!  We cannot wait to watch them grow and go through metamorphosis! 

They are so tiny!  But they will not stay that way long! :)

Happy Thursday!
Love,