Penguins

This week we learned all about penguins. We read a non-fiction story on the different types of penguins. One of the interesting things we discovered was that penguins have wings, but they don't fly! We also found out that penguins go for weeks at a time not eating so that they can stay seated on their egg and keep it warm. A video on penguins let us see them in action and gave us some more interesting facts. On Thursday, we created penguins by tracing our foot (for the body) and adding wings, eyes, a beak, and feet!

Math Explorations

Every unit in math, we have a day called "Math Explorations". On these days, we get a chance to explore some of our manipulatives while we practice skills that we have learned in the past or will be learning in an upcoming unit. Today, we had 3 different stations. At the first station, we used geoboards to make different sized triangles, because in our next unit, we will be exploring geometry. In our second station, we received a sheet of paper with different shapes on it. We used our pattern blocks to see how many of a different shape we could fit into that one shape. (For example, how many triangles will fit inside a hexagon?). At the last station, we cut out some fact triangles and practiced our fact familes with a partner.

Dental Health Month!

Jennifer's Mom.


The proper way to brush teeth.


Don't forget the tongue!


February is Dental Health Month. Today, Jennifer's mom (a Dental Hygienist) came to our classroom to talk about Dental Health! She talked about our teeth and told us that once we get our permanent teeth in, we want to keep them. To do this, we have to take care of them! We were shown the proper way to brush our teeth, and got to brush a gorilla's tongue. Each of us was given a toothbrush and a flosser to make sure we are brushing at home!

Phonics

In phonics we are learning about digraphs. We talked about how digraphs are two letters put together that make a new sound. The first thing we did was think of words that started or ended with certain digraphs. Then, we played a game called "Digraph Lotto". We each got a paper with squares on it. In each square was a word that either began or ended with a consonant digraph. Then we picked up a card with one of the digraphs on it. We colored in a square that had a word that started or ended with that digraph. The first person to color in their whole card, won the game!

Valentine's Day

Today we celebrated Valentine's Day. Yesterday, we decorated our boxes to look like Valentine's Day mailboxes by painting them red and gluing hearts on them. During our party, we put on "Valentine Mail Carrier" hats to pass out our cards. The volunteer moms worked really hard and gave us a great party! We decorated cookies and then got to eat them! Later, we played a Candy Heart Relay Race and Valentine Bingo! It was a wonderful day!

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100th Day of School!

We are 100 days smarter! Today we celebrated our 100th day of school. We found out that there are many ways to count to one hundred! We counted by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's. At recess, some of our classmates made 100 snowballs! At snacktime, we had a 100th day trail mix. For a fun activity, we saw how many times we could write our name in 100 seconds. We found out that people with shorter names were able to write their name a lot more times! In the Library, Mrs. Ray read us a book called The 100th Day of School. After lunch, we made patterns out of 100 blocks! We took a break and did 100 exercises followed up by 100 seconds of silence so we could rest and catch our breath! To end the day, we filled up gumball machines with 100 gumballs and told Mrs. Cossiboon what we would want to buy if someone gave us $100!

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Groundhog Day

Today we celebrated Groundhog Day. We talked about how the Groundhog saw his shadow on Saturday so we will be having six more weeks of winter instead of an early spring! Although with the rain we had today, it felt a lot more like spring than winter!

For a special Groundhog Day activity, we solved math problems and then colored the ground hog based on the special code. When we were all finished, we glued him together!

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