Field Trip: The Children's Museum in Portland!

Learning About Simple Machines

The simple machines program fit nicely with our new Forces and Motion science unit! 

We pretended to be squirrels. We learned about how we may be able to use simple machines to try to solve the problem of how to reach the feed in the bird feeder.

Special thanks to Jessica Proctor, Hyeri An, Jeff Davis & Sarah DeGroot for chaperoning!

Free exploration was 
a lot of fun too!

Thank you to the PCPA for funding 
the grant for this exciting field trip!

Science: Force & Motion

Experimenting

Reading

Teacher Time: Guided Reading practice.

Word Work: practicing tapping out words
with magnetic letters before writing.

Word Work: Super Hero Work:
practicing the sight word (at)

Word Work: Smelly Marker word review.

Word Work: Mix & fix sentence.

Predicting What the Groundhog Will Do On Groundhog Day

We read some great stories this week about the groundhog including Groundhog Day, Groundhog Get's a Say, Gregory's Shadow and Groundhog at Evergreen Road A Smithsonian's Backyard Book. On Friday we made groundhog stick puppets, named them and then made a prediction. We made a picture graph in our classroom windows. Ask your child what they predicted.

Writer's Workshop: All About Books

Using a planning sheet to plan her All About Me book.

Illustrating the cover.

Developing the writing of one section.

Illustrating one section.

Sharing Table of Contents.

Listening for the sounds in words.

 Choice Time

Pretend: imaginative play.

Pretend: The Fairy Tree

Games: Connect Four 

Games: UNO

Science: exploring shark teeth & other items from nature.

Easel: practicing illustrating.

Building: Working with gears.

Writing: Working cooperatively on a shared poster.

Art: practicing drawing skills.

Art: water colors painting

Reading Center: Enjoying touch & feel book
called One Winter's Day.

Math: free exploration with dominoes.

Guest Reader on Friday

Thank you Mr. Shabrin for reading to us:
What Do Snowman Do At Night? by Caralyn Buehner