Doodle Stories

We had a busy day, especially for a Late Start day!  We had math groups in the morning and Science, Spanish, and P.E. in the afternoon.  We had a few minutes between specials when we played a Doodle Story game.  The game starts with a small doodle.  People take turns adding to the doodle and adding to the story.  Each story was three turns long, and then we started a new game or story.  Here is the doodle and story from one game.

Remember - send in bags of 100 items by tomorrow. 

There Was An Old Lady... ~ Snowflakes ~ Math

We read this book today.

We retold the story by drawing pictures.  Some chose to make the pictures into books.

It's snowing in KC!! 

In math today, we talked about probability.  What's the probability that Mr. Connick will have to give out one or two pieces of candy?!?  We also walked on the number line.  We walked or counted by 1's, 2's, and 5's.  We added steps and subtracted steps.

Thanks for sending in the bags with 100 items.  We need them by Thursday. 
 

Mittens by 2's ~ Estimation Jar ~ Winter in the Hallway

We read two books with mittens in the story We noticed that mittens come in pairs, and we listed all the different things that come by 2's - ears, eyes, nostrils, arms, legs, arm pits, feet, etc.  We made pictures and put pairs of mittens in the pictures.  We counted the pairs of mittens by 2's.

Samantha brought in 51 pom poms in the estimation jar.  We counted them by 5's.

Our winter scenes are now hanging outside of our room.

Our mitten pictures are hanging in the K hallway.

If you haven't had a chance to see it, we have a wintery bulletin board in the K hallway.

Star Student Samantha ~ Borax Snowflakes ~ Winter Scenes ~ Measuring

Samantha is our Star of the Week.  She likes sub sandwiches.  She is looking forward to Valentine's Day.  She likes to color and sing.

Here are our Borax crystals or "snowflakes".

Everyone made a snow scene and then wrote about it.

The snow scene was either at night (black background paper) or during the day (blue background paper).

During math, we measured items around the room using connecting cubes.

Table Tops ~ Snowflakes

Playing Games

Puppets

Art

Games

Puppets

 

We made snowflakes out of pipe cleaners.

We suspended the snowflakes in a Borax solution.

We are growing snowflakes!!

Telling Time ~ Rhymes ~ Pattern

Earlier in the week, we read a fun storybook, What Time Is It, Mr. Crocodile?, that introduced time.  During table tops, some of the boys got the clocks and the book back out.

We have a new poem.  The class noticed that some of the words in the poem rhyme.  We put red squares around the 'op' words and circles around the 'ot' words.

We had a tricky calendar pattern.  Can your KC kid explain the pattern to you?

Exploring E Day - January

We went outside twice.  We wanted to make a snowman, but the snow wasn't good for packing.  Instead, we made snow angels.

We made patterns and wrote words in the snow.

Say....snow!

We used the snowman supplies to make snowman drawings.  We used the carrots for the noses and decorated with bird seed.

We took a walk after lunch.  We stopped by a creek to see what was in it.

We listened to a story.

We wore the class out!!

Tomorrow is a pep rally.  

Students can wear CA t-shirts or regular uniform tops.  

Students must wear uniform bottoms.