Friday News Flash

Can you believe March is over? I can't! But I am also very excited for the next couple months as they are action packed in our class! From hatching chicks, science projects with the high school and growing our garden the next weeks will be full of fun and learning!

Garden Project

This week we finally launched our garden project! First students had the opportunity to weed the garden, which is an important part to helping our plants have the space to grow! Then they got to plant some starts of celery, lettuce, kale and even some herbs! I thought more kids wouldn't want to touch the dirt but everyone was willing to get their hands dirty and help out! Finally students got to plant their very own beans, and boy did they take it seriously. "Miss Adams mines not getting enough sunshine!" or  "Miss Adams I need to water my beans!" They were truly little farmers! Now the fun part begins as we are documenting the progress of our beans every day watching as they grow and change! Here are our bean plants getting some sunshine and a few photos from the garden!

Art Projects

This was a week full of art projects! First to go along with our garden launch we did a project inspired by Eric Carl's 'The Tiny Seed.' We were making a picture of a flower and labeling what elements the flower needed. Students were only given paper and my directions of what they were to make, but they did all the cutting, pasting and drawing themselves. There were many wonderful designs but here are a few examples.

The second art project we did this week was a color mixing project. I gave students circles and they drew the parts to make a bird (wings, tail, beak, eyes). Then students traced their drawings with black marker. Finally we got to the color mixing portion. Students got to mix together the varying combinations of colors to make their own green, orange and purple. I heard many exclamations like "Wow if you keep mixing it makes purple" or "Add more yellow and then it will be more green!" It was so wonderful to see them so excited and they are even more excited to share their pictures with you. I sent home those pictures in their Friday Folders today!

Math: All about Teen Numbers

This week in math we launched teen numbers! Students got to explore the idea of a group of ten and then some more. Students used ten frames to practice counting on (counting to 12 starting at 10 instead of at 1) and they looked at the different ways to make each teen number. Students had fun building their teen towers breaking them into 2 parts and seeing who else in the class broke their towers the same way! It was a great chance for students to build their number sense and look at the different ways to make each number.

Right Brain: Creative Dramatics

Today we had our first lesson with the amazing Mrs. Flinn who worked with kids on controlling and using their bodies in a drama setting. Students acted out parts of a story, practiced their balance and control and even began to learn how to mime! Students had so much fun and loved being able to have creative movement time. I am so excited that we are able to have Mrs. Flinn and I can't wait to see what we do over the next few weeks we have her!

Two students use their bodies to make a tree

Nikki reads them a story about animals balancing in a boat

In a pretend boat on the floor students got to act out the different parts of the animal story we read.

Next week will have many more fun science and art activities as we jump into our next project: hatching eggs! The students already keep asking me when the baby ducks will be here and we haven't even gotten the eggs yet! I think it's safe to say the are as excited as I am!


Smiles,

Miss Adams