We had a busy week this week full of so many fun activities! We enjoyed our hot chocolate party, participated in many different holiday activities, had many visitors & said good bye to our wonderful Wright State student observer this semester, Mr. Rice. Take a look below to see more details on our busy week!
We worked hard on writing step by step directions of how to make a snowman. We worked together to discuss the steps and I wrote it on the board. Then the students had to copy the directions on their paper and draw their own pictures to show each step.
We read a winter book about wearing proper clothes to keep warm. We read the words and had to glue the matching pictures on each page.
We made gingerbread glyphs. I forgot to take a picture of the directions I used and one of the student's completed gingerbread but they all turned out so great. They had to follow directions to make their gingerbread to represent them such as make the eyes the same color as yours, the number of buttons on your person is how old you are.
My mom, Mrs. Boxley was so excited to bring in all of the materials for our hot chocolate part that the students earned. They got to choose what they wanted in their hot chocolate and they really enjoyed drinking it. It was so yummy!
We read the story "The Mitten" and completed a sequencing activity. The students worked on retelling the story as they put the animals in their paper bag.
They also got to design their own mitten and write about what could fit in it. Some of their ideas as you can see below are heart, Bentley, house, and bike.
They also said stove, rainbow, and lots of cotton candy.
We had some student nurses come talk to us about the importance of proper hand washing. They demonstrated using glitter how germs can spread from one person to another by shaking hands or touching other things.
We have been learning about Holidays Around the World and how different countries around the world celebrate the holiday season. We learned that Christmas Cards started over in England and the students got to make their own Christmas cards for their families.
We also learned about the Mexican Christmas flower, the Poinsettia and the students made their own.
Our friend Parker's brother Brady came to visit and read to our class. He was in my Kindergarten class 2 years ago and wanted to show the class his awesome reading skills. They students enjoyed listening to Brady read to them.
The students shared their mitten writing and our winter books with their preschool reading buddies this week.
We have also been working on a 5 senses Christmas book. The first page shows how bright Christmas looks with the bright lights.
The second page is about how Christmas tastes like candy canes. The students worked hard on crushing up candy canes to glue on their page.
We also finished our purple mosaic this week and the students are now working on completing the brown mosaic.
Our school had a visit from the West Carrollton Fire Department this week. They wanted to show the students what they looked like with all of their equipment on and how they were not scary. They discussed how if they are in your house, they are there to help them and not to hide from them! We got to listen to them use their oxygen tank and even heard him talk with it (he sounded like Darth Vader!).
Since we have now learned all of our uppercase letters, we will be going back and learning the lowercase letters and matching them on our letter cards for our word wall. As we do this, the students will be earning 2 books for each letter to take home and practice reading.
Along with the book we made for Mr. Rice that I shared with you last week, we also made this picture for him with the student's thumbprints. It turned out great!
Thanks for stopping by! Check back again next week to see what we are up to next!
Have a great week!
Mrs. Brittany Garrabrant
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