What A Beautiful Day!

The weather was so nice we got out twice! Enjoy the photos from our fun outdoors late in the afternoon.

Our sight word today was FOR. There was much discussion about FOR vs. FOUR. We talked about what each word meant. How it sounded the same but meant different things and were spelled differently. Then, we practiced writing FOR.

Mrs. Erikson had a super art project planned for the kids. How much fun is blowing paint around on your paper with a straw? Lots of fun as we discovered today. The artist she discussed was rather abstract and we imagined we saw lots of images in his paintings. So with ours, we sat down with the art teacher afterwards and looked for "hidden" objects. The kids enjoyed art ... as usual.

Some time for singing. We joined the blue room in a rhyming song and we did one in our room on our own. This one involved the farm. Each child got to place the image of the animal we sang about in the farmer's pen. They started singing along with Mrs. Sapp. Very fun!

Mrs. E. also worked with the kids on numbers. Each child got a number (double digits) card. They had to count out that number of (stale) candy corn and the little wind-up chick followed the kids and (pretended) to eat the candy corn. We did not! They really had fun playing with the chick however, we discovered they ALL are doing super fabulous with their number recognition as well as understanding what the number symbol means. Impressive!

A new star box is coming home. We put a note in your mailbox. There will be a number in the box. The kids must return the box with that many items inside.

We have a new job. It's the peacemaker. Our first little gal got a try at the job today. She did very well. Only two disputes to solve and she did it with ease. Very nice! They will get to wear a cute apron with peace signs all over it when they have this job.

Lastly, we did a project with zoo animals vs. farm animals. These came home today. The object was to put the correct animal on the correct piece of paper. We tried tried to get them to "sound out" the first letter on the paper if they forgot which color was which. Most did super. For some reason, the image of the cat threw them. Lots of 'em questioned where that lil critter belonged. Hmmmmm....

Remember no lunch is necessary on Friday. See you then!