Valentine Activities Part II

Here are the other Valentine activities we've done this week!

We made magnets for our parents!

All wrapped and ready to go! :)

We made homemade Valentine cards for our Moms and Dads too!

Madeline is working hard!

Charlesha

Pierce is copying his poem!

Marcus busy at work.

Dillian looking at the SmartBoard to copy his Valentine poem.

Christian is drawing snakes on his Valentine!

Olivia is thinking of how she wants to decorate her card!

Abby and Rosie

Angel and Akaylin

On Friday we are going to "illustrate" this book!

We hope you've had a great week! 

Happy Valentine's (again)! :)

Between the Lions: "When Two Vowels Go Walking"

This week we've been learning all about "when two vowels go walking-the first one does the talking." Here is a video we love! :)

Happy Thursday!
Love,
Mrs. Kimbrell

Owls

As you know our next animal to learn about is OWLS!  When we voted last (between fish and owls) there was only 1 vote separating them.  I am super excited about this theme because unlike catfish there are TONS of resources!!!  We have only been learning about them for two days and we've already learned SO MUCH! :)  Check it out...

This is our CAN HAVE ARE chart!  After we read our book each day we fill in the

new facts we've learned!

We decided to learn about ALL owls but when it is time for construction,

we will MAKE a Barn Owl! :)

On Tuesday we watched these GREAT owl videos!  I hope you enjoy!

Valentine's Activities!

This week we have been getting ready for Valentine's Day!  Check out some of the fun things we are doing (more to come)!

We started with our Valentine Bear Glyph.  This is the most extensive glyph we've done thus far!

Cooper and Quin

Abby

Mrs. McGuire also came on Monday to help us decorate our Valentine boxes! 

Madeline, Akaylin, and Ally

Andy

On Tuesday we began our "Sweetheart Candy Graph."  We have to color in the hearts (remembering our sight words) and then graph them!

Meet our Heart People!

For this activity we focused on cutting skills!  They had to cut out ALL of the body parts! 

Estimation

We are going to estimate how many candy hearts are in the container. 

The person who gets the closest gets to have them!

I found this precious book on a fellow teachers' blog and had to borrow it!

We compiled our pages and made a precious class book!

Happy Early Valentine's Day!

Love,

Catfish and Counting! :)

This week we finished constructing our catfish!  The kids did an amazing job and he is proudly hanging outside our door!

We signed up for jobs!  What did your child do?

Whole picture

Close up of the head.

Middle of the body.

Tail

On Friday we finished up everything from the week so Mrs. Kimbrell pulled a game out of her Investigations Math Series.  We worked with a partner, each grabbed one handful of unifix cubes, and then counted, measured, and recorded! 

Rosie and Akaylin working.

Close up of our paper!

Which tower is tallest?

Angel and Olivia

Brenden and Nathan

The kids LOVED it!
Have a great weekend!
Love,

Author Visit--Michael Shoulders...

Today we had a VERY special treat!  Visiting author, Michael Shoulders, came to AEEC!  We were able to go to the Tiger's Den for his amazing performance!  I hope you enjoy the videos--I can tell you he is the BEST author we've had at AEEC thus far!!!
Also, you can check out his website: http://michaelshoulders.com/.

Our sweet class waiting patiently.

Sorry it's hard to see, but this is a picture of all of the books Mr. Shoulders has written.

Michael Shoulders

He was quite entertaining!

He performed a magic trick (see video below).

I learned something very interesting and new.  Every book (and magazine) is printed on one large piece of paper, and then cut!

He even let a friend in Blue pod dress up!

He "rapped" a song for us at the end!

You absolutely MUST watch the videos just to get a glimpse of what a great time we had!

The magic trick!

Where is Mr. Shoulders from?

Explaining how books are printed on one large piece of paper and then cut up.

Too funny!

Our rap song!  You can also hear it on his website!

We had a great time!  Hope you are having a great Tuesday!
Love,