Showing posts with label Sunflower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sunflower. Show all posts

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Letter S Week

Letter S Week was 
STUPENDOUS!
Here's a peek at our week!
Our themes this week included
Scarecrows, Sunflowers and Squirrels.


Our literacy center featured the book, The Little Scarecrow Boy.


The children wrote and illustrated a storyboard.




At the art center we created Silly Scarecrows.


Our discussion about sunflowers included the book,
This Is The Sunflower.


The children worked on nonfiction facts about sunflowers.



At the math center the children colored and constructed sunflowers.



During morning meeting the children acted out different verses about sunflowers.



Look at the beautiful sunflowers we created in our art center!




We also read the book, The Sunflower House.


Later in the week we moved on to one of my favorite topics!

SQUIRRELS!
So cute
and yet
So naughty!

(My husband and I battle squirrels all the time!  They are adorable 
until they get in your attic and fall down into the walls and you
have to cut a hole in your wall to get them out 
or when they chew up your brand new cushions on your deck...)



We read the book,
Nuts To You.
We had a blast turning into squirrels! 




We can be pretty "squirrely" for sure!
(Not sure that "squirrely" is a real word....but I think it should be!)


We fed squirrels nuts  in the math center!


They are hungry little critters!


We wrote nonfiction facts about squirrels.


We graphed Skittles.




And ATE Skittles!


How many Skittles do you think are in these jars?


All week long we bribbed...I mean passed out 
Smarties!
Why?  
Because!
We ARE SMART!

S Week was incredible.
We loved every SECOND of it!

We also went to the Fire Station this week.
I can't wait to tell you, I mean show you
all about the firefighters!












Friday, November 18, 2011

Letter S Week

Letter S Week was SUPER!
The themes this week included
Squirrels, Scarecrows, Sunflowers and Skittles.
Our math center focused on sets of six.


Our literacy center featured several books,
The Little Scarecrow Boy, Sunflower House and Nuts To You.


We studied sunflowers.
We sorted and counted different types of seeds.
We made pattern block sunflowers at the math center.


In art we created several sunflowers using assorted mediums and techniques.



We wrote non fiction facts about sunflowers.

 
We discussed scarecrows and read, The Little Scarecrow Boy.



In art we created these stupendous Scarecrows!


Our discussion of squirrels was really fun.  The children were
very interested in finding out more about squirrels 
because we have several that live in our backyard at school.  
We discovered there are over 200 
types of squirrels and they are omnivores.  
The children were surprised to learn that squirrels 
eat other things besides nuts.  


Here are some journal pages about squirrels.


We read, Nuts To You by Lois Elhert.


The children are becoming more comfortable with
writing their owns words.  They are doing a great job!


The children made squirrels with dried leaves.


They also created these silly squirrel hats to wear!  

Our sensory activity was SLIME.





It was super slippery and slimy!

Our math center was busy all week.  We focused
on the number six and constructed sets of six using 
stickers and Unifix cubes.



We graphed bags of Skittles.  


We also estimated how many Skittles were in the jars.


It was a great week in the Kindie house!
Next week will be a short week.
Our Feast will be on Tuesday.
On Monday we will talk about Native Americans
and celebrate all the things we are thankful for.