Extra Recess!

We had beautiful weather...FINALLY, so I took the kiddos out for an extra recess at the end of the day!  I gave them the option of choice time or outside - all of their hands flew up for extra playtime outside!

 

Here are a few snapshots!  Unfortunately I didn't get all of them, but keep your eyes peeled for more because I will try to keep adding them!

 

Station Time!

Work Stations!

 

This week I added a new fun game!  My students love to stack cups, so I decided to write words on the top of these Dixie cups!  They work with their partner, if they can say the word, they get to stack it.  If they can't say the word yet, their partner gets a chance to steal and the lose their turn.

 

 

As you can see, they are doing great with their sight words!  Way to go boys!!!

 

"The duck cooks in the mailbox."  WHAT?!?! 

:)  Silly Sentences has been a blast for my kids!  They pick three cards, one blue, one pink, one orange and they fill in the blanks in that order to make their sentence.  Then hey have to illustrate whatever their silly sentence says!

Bean Bag words!  Inside that orange bag is a bunch of beans with sight words written on them.  Students shake the bag to find sight words and record them on their paper.

 



This is a creative writing station.  Students pick out a card, and then write 1-3 sentences about the card they chose.  Then they illustrate a picture.

 



Working it all in!  Word work on this pocket chart has been a difficult task!  They are to put the sentences in order to the Spring Poem that we have been learning.

 



 

Sight Word scramble!  These are the sight words that are scrambled up in the tubs.  Students look at the letters and try to figure out what word they have in front of them.  Then they record it on their paper.

Marbled Easter Eggs with Shaving Cream

Right before Easter we made these awesome projects!  It is literally shaving cream and food coloring!  Each student's project turned out different, they are incredible! 

 

 

This is one of my students.  We mounted them on black paper to make them stand out a little more. 

 

Directions:

Use a cookie sheet, put shaving cream on it.  Spread it out.  Drop on whatever color food color you want to show up on the paper.  Put another layer of shaving cream on, use a knife and marble it through.  Place your paper on top press it down until it feels like the whole paper has shaving cream on it.  Peel it off, place it on the table then use a drywall scraper to scrape the shaving cream off of it.  Let dry, cut out, mount, and wahh-lahhhh!

Dissolving Peeps

This week we learned about dissolving!  I decided that we would try to dissolve Peeps since I had some left over from Easter and it was something fun to watch take place.  We started the experiment by choosing what cup we thought would dissolve the peep first.  We had water, rubbing alcohol, vinegar, diet coke, and laundry soap. 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

We waited one week.  Results are in...

Vinegar dissolved the Peep the quickest!

Water made the Peep mold

Rubbing Alcohol preserved the Peep - there was NOTHING wrong with it!

Diet Coke was eating the Peep and it looked like a lung with cancer - it was nasty!

Laundry Soap looked like Jell-O at the end of the week!