Monday, January 31, 2011

Letter Dd

Dinosaur- Beginning letter D words and Dinosaur word families.
Social Studies- making choices....We will be discussing interests and talents. How can your interests and talents one day help you choose a career. The students will get to pick a costume and explain to the class who they want to be when they grow up!

Math- Fractions- Sort baggies of dog bones to see if they can be sorted equally into halves.


Math- Find the matching half of dog bone. There are PIP dots on one side and a number on the other.

Science- Caring for our Earth... Recycling sort


Letter D Beginning letter sound


Doghouse Rhyming

Monday, January 24, 2011

Letter Y

Letter Y game
EL AR- Preposition words and Phrases...Predictions....and adding text to the research topic from last week

Math- Geometry: Attributes of two-dimensional Figures


Shapes and Color Bingo


Math- Geometry- Attributes of two-dimensional figures


Science- Earth's Natural resources sort

Science- Caring for our earth activities

Social Studies- How do people use technology? Match the community helper with the correct technology. Discuss how technology has changed over the years.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Letter Ee

Science- Force of Motion... Wheels on the Bus game
Social Studies- Why do people vote? We will be going through the voting process.


Science- Cont Force of Motion... Wheels on the Bus activities


Science- Cont Force of Motion...We will be experimenting with Pendulums...Making toilet paper roll cars and having ramp races.


Wheels on the Bus treat!



EL AR- Children will be introduced to skills related to researching a topic in order to prepare for writing. We will do a book study on Elephants and they will draw pics of what they learned! We will also be making invitations. In reading, we will be talking about inferencing and informational text.


Math- Addition and subtraction... This is an Eskimo ice addition game


Letter Ee Elephant game... Feed the elephant the peanuts with the letter E items


Elephant book buddy and re-enforcing things that start with letter Ee




Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Letter C

Camp out activities!
Science- Exploring Systems...Making Ramps and doing experiments

Hidden Caterpillar sight word game!

ELAR- Caterpillar ABC and CVC words! We will put the alphabet in order and then find the matching Capital and Lowercase letters. We will then create caterpillar CVC words!

ELAR- Signs All Around Us! Environmental print!

ELAR- Cookies! With the spatula.... pick out the pictures that start with the letter "C" and feed the cookie to the hungry mouse!

ELAR- Adding sentences and illustrations to our Narrative paper from last week!

ELAR- The Very Hungry Caterpillar!

Social Studies- US and Texas.... Flag and Pledge activities!

Math- Continue with numbers 1-15! This is a fun Candy Shop counting game!

Candyland

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Letter U and Z

Social Studies- National Patriotic Holidays. Studying George Washington and his life. We will be making a 3 corners hat with Washington facts written on it. We will make a timeline of Washington's life. We will also be learning about presidents and their jobs.
Science- What makes things work?

We will be looking at various objects and try to figure out what make them work... we will add and take parts away from the object to see if they still work! We will be making helicopters and straw rockets and recording our observations!

Math- Counting and recognizing numbers 11-15

Math- Smartboard

Math Smartboard

Letter "u" word family game


ELAR- Procedural Text- Text with Pictures that prompt a students to learn how to do something. Also... Adjectives


Procedural Text- Recipe to make a snowman


Snowman treat


Procedural Text- Happy 2011 New Year's Hat



Snowman writing...letter "u" word family game...handwriting letter U and Z