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| Planting our Mother's Day flowers! |
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| Just the right amount of soil. |
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| Planting with care. |
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| Choosing a gem for the cards |
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| Making a Mother's Day 'purse' card |
They loved choosing a gem to close the purse card, using fine tip markers to decorate them with, and any excuse to use the paper punches is always welcome!
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| The gardening gloves were a nice touch! |
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| For you, mom! |
Having the soil available gave us another excuse to plant - this time we planted bean seeds after reading Jack and the Beanstalk. We will send these home once they have started to climb through the paper castels we mounted on popsicle sticks in the pots. I showed the class a photo a boy from a previous class sent of his beanstalk that he took home and planted in the ground. It was a big, luxurious vine, higher than his front door and had beans growing on it ready to pick. So you never know what these little seeds might do!
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| Will these be magic beans? |
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| Cover them with soil. |
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| Just a bit more soil... |
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| Here is the castle the vine will grow through! |
Speaking of fairy tales, we also read Young Lancelot (King Arthur's famous knight), Thumbelina, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. We are identifying the features of fairy tales after reading each one and even wrote an opinion page on Jack's actions of taking the giant's harp, gold, and hen.
A collaborative project everyone was involved in was making posters based on one of the fairy tales we have read, discussing and writing the characters, magic, and special features, and then decorating a poster with all the information and headings. This was followed by presenting the posters to the class. The kids loved this activity and had a real flair for presenting too!
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| Working on Snow White and Rose Red. |
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| A Young Arthur poster |
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| Decorating for Beauty and the Beast |
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| Ready to present! |
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| We will tell you all about it! |
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| Let the presentation begin! |
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| How do you like it? |
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| Rapunzel poster ready to go! |
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| Proud of our Jack and the Beanstalk |
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| Off for the mail! |
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| Nothing will slow us down! |
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| Ready to ride! |
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| Who will be the mystery author? |
During our poetry writing this week an enticing display of nature items was available to draw inspiration from. The kids chose from seashells, crystals and rocks, a snakeskin, bird nest, a porcupine quill, and arrowhead, sea glass, and more. They used their five senses to create a descriptive sensory poem and drew matching illustrations as a final touch. Another poetry activity was writing a poem using repetition. The word 'Because' was used throughout to describe something they liked or loved. Poetry writing stretches the imagination and is lots of fun besides!
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| Our nature display for poetry |
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| We are reading The Ugly Duckling |
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| I'll Read to You, You Read to Me |
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| Mini fairy tales are more fun with a partner! |
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| My turn to read this page! |
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| We Both Read book |
A few last pictures here show two friends singing at our poetry chart and a few friends showing off their castle picture from centers.
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| Castle drawing experts |
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| Ready to be teachers! |
We finished up our math topic on graphing and tallying and will begin one on geometric shapes next week.
We are all looking forward to making our tissue box castles next week too!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Mrs. Dagley
