Is it Heavy or Light?

A new tool is at the math area. It's called a scale and it measures if something is heavy, light or weighs the same.

Students have been comparing how many dinosaurs are equal to snap cubes.

They have described what they observe using math language.

"It's so much heavy!"

"Look, they are the same. I put one more in and it's the same."

"I think 2 dinosaurs are the same as 5 snap cubes."

"The dinosaurs are so many, that's why it's heavy."

Flower Power

Inspired by the promise of spring flowers we put out some flowers at the art studio and encouraged students to paint their own flowers or the ones on the table.

What a beautiful way to brighten up our classroom!

 

Updates Coming

Evening everyone! 

I know that it's been a while since I last updated the blog. I have begun tonight to finally get some posts together that I've been meaning to put up for a loooooong time.

I'm hoping I will have them all up for you by the end of the weekend.

Ms. Hammond

Yay!! Spring Time!!

Moments of Learning

Here are some more snap-shots of the learning from December. Enjoy!

Ms. Hammond

Word Wall

Our classroom word wall has been growing. As we read books and poems together, we have been adding sight words (it, is, the, I, and).

In December, we added a new section on the word wall. Letter sound pictures. I asked the children to help me find objects in the classroom that started with the letter-sound of each alphabet letter.

I started with an easy example. We had apples at the snack table and apples starts with the A sound. We took a photograph of it and put a sticky note with the word apple on the word-wall. Next thing I knew, we had an alphabet hunt going on in our classroom. Nearly all of the letters had a sticky note on them by the end of the day.

 

We are working on finding the last few objects for some tricky letter sounds. V, W, X and Y. Perhaps we will have to look outside the classroom for these letter-sounds.

 

Ms. Hammond