What a “LOVELY” week it has been. Our theme included topics of kindness, friendship, love, and caring. We really enjoyed decorating our Valentine's Day bags with hearts and sparkles and passing out Valentines to our friends. And, can you believe we celebrated our 100th Day of School?! We did lots of hands-on math with our 100 items. Thank you for participating in this fun learning event and for providing festive food for our class party!
Here's what else we were up to this week:
-Letter Vv, how it looks, writes, sounds, and signs
-Super Sight Word be, as in Will you be my Valentine?
-All About Number 10 , handwriting, tallies, base ten, number line, and number word
-Sweet Heart Addition 1-10, we have been discussing vocabulary such as addend, plus sign, equal sign, sum, equation, and addition
-Counted by tens to 100 using a hand exercise called fist to fan, counted our steps to 100, used a 100's chart to count objects to 100, placed groups of 100 items in a line and measured the length, made a 100 froot loop necklace, traced numbers 1-100, did 10 sets of 10 different exercises, and compared each kiddos items, WOW! 100 can look so different. The kiddos deserve high praise for these activities as it takes much hand strength, fine motor skill, and hand eye coordination to complete many of these tasks (we did silly hand wiggles when our hands got tired).
-The Science of Chocolate: Reversible Change. We observed different types of chocolate in its solid state, melted it to its liquid state, and watched it over time return back to its original state, a solid. However, chocolate does not look, sound, or taste the same once the molecular structure has been changed. Once the chocolate solidified again, the shiny texture turned dull, the snap turned into a bend, and the taste was sweeter. This was very fun and got all of our senses going as we smelled, compared, and tasted the chocolate. Yum!
-Created an I love you to pieces fine motor craft using red, purple, and pink tissue paper
-After three weeks, we finally met our class goal for Blurt Alert! The kids get to pick a gem from the gem box and for each blurt we do NOT get one pom pom goes into our class jar for a class party. Nice job!
