Curious Parents: January 2013

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Author Study

Hello everyone!

Hope you enjoyed your three day weekend! To celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday, we placed the events of his life into a timeline. Here are some book ideas you might enjoy about this topic.

We are very excited to announce that we will begin an author study of Mo Willems in our writing class! If you haven't seen his books, you will just fall in love with all the great characters. Here are some examples of his books:

We can't wait to share all the great activities with you! Please be on the look out for them.

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Preposition Snomen

Hello everyone! Hope you are staying warm during this cold time of year!

This week we used snowmen to help learn about prepositions.

Mrs. Eshman came up with a great activity that helped our students understand what prepositions mean. They created a snowman scene using her directions (including prepositions). It looked like this:

Then I received a "Highlights" magazine in the mail. And inside of it was a great poem that included lots of prepositions.

After listening to the poem, our firsties made the tracks using the prepositions to help them know where to go. It looked like this:

This week we will be working on a "how to" melt a snowman! We look forward to sharing all this great new learning with you!

Mrs. Hutchison

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

A look back...A look forward

I hope everyone enjoyed their winter break! I know it went very quickly in our house this year.

Our last week of school before break was filled with lots of blue. Pete the Cat blue, that is! The whole building seemed to have a great time reading and writing about one of our favorite characters. Here are just a few pictures from that fun week...

This week we will move on to explore snowman! We will read books, use shapes to create snowman, and begin to understand the difference between a solid, liquid, and gas. Here are couple of books that your firstie might enjoy!