Our last update focused on our polar research project. Since that time, we have completed another big research project: biographies! Each child chose a famous person (preferably found on our kid-friendly search engine called Pebble Go). Using some of the skills introduced in the polar research project, the children read about and then took notes on their famous person. They used what they learned to create a life-size (well...let's call it "first grader size") replica of the chosen person. We had a wonderful time tracing, drawing, cutting, measuring, and painting our people. Currently, they are hanging around (literally) our classroom.
We are in full play mode now. Almost every morning, we can be found in Estes Multipurpose room rehearsing for our play,
The Little Red Hen. The play is a true, hands-on way to develop both gross motor skills (we do a lot of dancing) as well as reading/speaking expression (also known as prosody). In addition, the children have to use their ability to follow directions and work cooperatively.
In math, we have taken the last two weeks to slow down our pace and go more in-depth with our numeration skills. We have also worked on fact families, which show the relationship between addition and subtraction. We were especially lucky to schedule four extra sessions with Mrs. Coleman in the math lab last week.
Finally, here is a short snippet of grandparents & special friends day. It was wonderful.
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