Learning and Growing!

Over the last week and a half, we have been very busy!

We were introduced to the /B/ sound in Language Arts and were very excited when our friend Ibou brought in his items for the Sound of the Week board. Ibou brought in a book, a bumble bee, a bowl, a basketball, and a brush. As we were brainstorming for our word list, we came up with these words; bunny, bear, bell, broccoli, butterfly, back, brother, blue, bubble, bugs, because, balloon, bicycle, bath, butter, bench, bake, brownies, bacon, belt, etc. Even Rose's dad, Ben, made the list! We continue to think of words that begin with this sound as well as the /P/ sound.

We did a few activities surrounding our new letter sound. They included; Button names, B is for bear, having a /B/ scavenger hunt in the classroom, reading the book, Bubble Bear, and other fun activities.

After learning all about the /B/ sound, we reviewed the /P/ sound and had a sound sort with both letter sounds. We also had fun outside using sidewalk chalk to practice our handwriting skills, and practiced writing the letters in shaving cream as well. We thoroughly enjoyed that activity!



/P/ and /B/ Sound Sort

Writing with Sidewalk Chalk /P/ and /B/




Shaving cream handwriting

 

In math we were introduced to an activity called the Counting Jar. We will have Counting Jar every week, with a different number of objects each week. This activity gives us practice with one to one correspondence, tagging, counting with accuracy, and matching number symbols with the correct number of objects.

It was pretty rainy last week and a few of us had some questions about where rain came from. We talked a little about weather, and let Ms. Fizzle and the gang (yes, from The Magic School Bus!) take us on a journey. We learned about all types of weather and how it's "made". We will do an in-depth study on weather later in the school year.

The signs of Fall have begun to show and we could not help but notice! The leaves are changing colors and are falling all around, and the air is cooler. What better time to go on a leaf hunt and create our own leaf rubbings? That is exactly what we did! We went on a search for the perfect leaves and came back to the classroom to see if we could use them for an art project. We used crayons that were the colors of Fall (red, orange, yellow, brown) and created some pretty cool pieces.



Leaf hunt



Fall leaf rubbings

Community Day at SSFS was a lot of fun. We began the day with  a walk through the woods to the Meeting House to have Meeting for Worship. Our Senior Buddies met us  in our classroom to walked us over. After Meeting for Worship, we got a bus ride back to campus, ate our snack, and got busy in our PK-K garden!



Community Day

Other photos from Community Day can be viewed here: http://www.ssfs.org/gallery/index.aspx?LinkId=1438&ModuleId=29 


We had our first Family Share, celebrating the DeBacker family! Thank you all for coming in to share with us! We are looking forward to celebrating with each family!



Celebrating Ibou's birthday

Spirit Week pep rally