Easter Language Arts Centers

The children have been making words, matching number words to numbers,finding ending sounds and having Easter fun

This activity is housed in an Plastic Easter Egg! There are little baskets with a rime (ending of a word family) for example ot, ug, it, an and so on. Initial sounds are written on Easter themed erasers. The children had to put the beginning sounds in the correct basket to make words. Then they wrote the list of words made from each basket.

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly

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The children have had a lot of fun reading the stories of the Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.

We each made an Old Lady along with a book to bring home to our families to share.

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly! Why?

We have had so much fun listening to this story. We have read many different versions and versions with different characters. We are using this literature unit to begin our study of measurement. As the lady swallows things they gradually get bigger. We talk about size and order things from smallest to largest. Below is a slide show of the Old Lady's the class made today.

Easter Theme Math activities

Math can be fun during any season. A few plastic eggs and a bunny egg holder, a sharpie marker and we have a fun addition game to reinforce addition facts. The children did a good job completing this activity.

 We did the same thing with a chick egg holder and subtraction. The children caught onto the concept quickly.

We are at the point in the year where we have learned many skills in math. So at math centers now we have numbers, addition, subtraction, patterns, money, time and measurement. Today I introduced some bunny and egg addition and subtraction activities. Come back tomorrow to check out the measurement acivities!

Dinosaur Museum

Wow! Look at those dinosaurs! We had a great time preforming for our parents and grandparents on Wednesday. This activity culminated our Dinosaur Unit. We studies dinosaur facts for 4 weeks and wanted to show off all we now know for our loved ones. The children sang songs and recited dinosaur facts and then walked their parents around the room to see all of the projects they did during the unit.

We made paper machie dinosaur eggs! Thank you to all the parents that helped us with this messy project.

The children really enjoyed making fossils and cracking them apart to discover a dinosaur! The children mixed the plaster in a paper cup and put a dinosaur in it and then it hardened. When we pretended to be palentologists and cracked them open the children were surprised to see such great looking fossils!

The children wrote dinosaur facts after we read non-fiction dinosaur books

Children always love building with blocks so we added dinosaurs to our block center. It was a ROARING good time!!

They also loved doing all of the dinosaur puzzles.

We read books and posters to learn all about dinosaurs and how they lived. We kept a Palentologist journal. We never figured out how dinosaurs died out. We all have different theories.

The children were most proud of our dinosaur mural in the hallway! Well all the dinosaurs are extinct in our room now and we will move on to learn all about bugs after sring break!

Leprechaun On the Loose!!

Oh my, this is the letter we found when we entered the classroom this morning. And look below to see the pictures of how we found the room!

So we started the day cleaning the room up! After that we read Leprechaun on the Loose and made Leprechaun hats.

We then set a trap and went to music. While we were in music nad Mrs. Busse was in a meeting the Leprechaun visited our classroom again! He set the trap off but escaped. He left his pot with some gold (since it is St. Patrick's Day the gold was green) and a gold dust trail leading out the window.

We then read 2 books about Leprechauns and Potatoes and talked about Ireland. After reading we cut apart potatoes and made french fries because that was our favorite way to eat potatoes.

 We ate the french fries and finished the sentence If I found a leprechaun's pot of gold... Some children would buy a wii, some a motorcycle, one boy would by his mom an oven and a couple children would share it!

After writing we went to the office to see if the leprechaun had been seen there. No one had seen the leprechaun so we left some french fries for the secretaries and came back to the room.

Overall we had a wonderful day but we did not find the leprechaun. Maybe next year!

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