Hi Everyone,
All About Me is officially done, but we are rolling right into farm animals and healthy eating. We will start reading the Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle on Monday!
Today we practiced drawing our face! We took turns looking in the mirror and after being given a model of Mrs. Massey the kids went to town drawing their own faces. This is a great activity to do at home and while you do it make sure you takl about the different facial features and circles. Also we talked about how no one looks same and that is ok.
This afternoon kicked off our healthy eating by making hands with popcorn in carrots. We spent time discussing hot (popcorn) and cold (carrots). We used an old fashion pop corn maker where the kernels are put in and the kids see the kernels come spilling out after it is plugged in. So the popcorn was completely free of butter and salt. Then each student was given a glove. They put carrots into the finger spots and filled the rest of the glove with popcorn. They laughed and thought making the gloves was so much fun!
In art this week we practiced drawing a large orange circle and a small green square to make a pumpkin! Then students made faces on their pumpkins with black crayons.
In music Mr. David helped by pre-teaching some of the vocabulary with the animals we will be learning about next week. We talked about sounds the animals make and the kids got to make those sounds into the microphone. Some of your children become quite little hams when faced with a microphone (even if it is just pretend!)
Also just an FYI, but I will be out on Monday because I have jury duty summons. All non- emergencies please send a note and I will address everything as soon as I get back. Also thank you for everyone who returned their forms saying whether or not they were getting updates on the blogs and whether or not to add your spouse. I am at home updating the blog so I will not be able to input your spouse's e-mail addresses until I get back. I will let you know once I do so you can make sure they are also receiving the information.
Have a happy, healthy weekend!
