The Q & U Wedding Special

Let's start with the biggest news of all this week. It was the wedding of the century.  Ms.Q, the queen of quilts, and Mr. U, a collector of umbrellas, tied the knot this week in our very own classroom! We watched them wed and celebrated afterward with cookies, punch, and dancing of course. I told the students to come dressed for a wedding.

Sharp dressed man, right?!

The AM class had a different groom than the PM class.

 The wedding was actually how we ended the week.  We began the week learning about fire safety.  We made an anchor chart with several rules about how to prevent fires and how to stay safe in case of a fire. The students chose one fire safety rule and illustrated it in their journals. 

I will feel the door

 Some of our centers had a fire safety theme as well. In the number work center, the students pretended to be firefighters.  They started with 20 blue pompom balls(representing water) in two ten frames. They rolled the dice and used tweezers to put that many puffballs on the fire to "put it out."

This is a link is to a great ten frame game your child can play at home.

And in the puzzle center, they put the firetruck puzzle together. 

They put CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words together in the word work center,

extended AB patterns using bugs in the math games center, 

and built cool structures with foam blocks.

By the way, Amelie is in her socks here because that was the "puffball" award was that day.  Whenever the students are doing individual work at their desks (journals and math worksheets) they have a chance to help their table earn a puffball. When all the students at a table are working quietly and staying on task, I drop a fuzzy, sparkly little ball on their table. Those students will get some sort of reward at the end of work time (but they never know what it will be). Sometimes its an extra trip to the water fountain, or a sticker, or a stamp, or a Skittle. Well, on Wednesday, they got what has proven to be the best reward of all: Center Time in Their Socks.  You would have thought it was Christmas day!

I missed posting the Friday before fall break, so I'll do an all picture-and-caption-recap to fill you in. The theme was APPLES.

Apple Tree Bingo

A game inspired by Dr. Seuss' Ten Apples Up On Top

We practiced making the first sound when coming to a word we don't know. 

We tasted red, green, and pink/yellow apples.

They liked them...

Then we made a graph using tally marks to show which apple was our favorite.

The red-head is my sister who subbed for me that Friday.

Fun Friday art project: An apple for each letter in our name, 

And it was pink day!