Science Day- exploring our five senses

At our hands-on science day we explored our five senses- by tasting, feeling ,smelling, listening, and looking. The kids tasted many different items, lemons, sugar, pickles, pretzels, sweet tarts and chocolate. We talked about the different taste buds that we have and how each section of our tongue is used for different tastes. The look on their faces when they tasted the lemons was priceless. We also used our noses to determine what smells we were smelling. I think my room smelled like vinegar for a couple of hours afterwards. I am so grateful to all you parents who come in to help with these experiments, as you can tell they really enjoy science day! So thank you so much for your commitment to our class.

This week coming up in class we will talk about Dental health. February is dental health month and I have some activities planned that are centered around our teeth. We will also start our unit on Dr. Seuss. His birthday is March 2, We've got some Seuss activities planned for the end of the week and into the following week. We will be watching the movie "The Lorax" (the old version of course, but I can't wait to see the new version at the theater) which has a wonderful lesson on appreciating and respecting the world God created for us , as well as how important trees are to our lives.

Well thanks for checking in.... Send me a note and mention the next movie I will be seeing at the theater and your child will receive a sweet treat!

Valentine's Day celebration

Well, our parties were a success! The students had a ball, I am still finding Hershey Kisses hidden in my room, but no problem because I often need a little pick me up and chocolate does the trick. This week in class we will be discussing President Lincoln and President Washington. I have a few writing assignments and some math that will go along with our President theme. We also have our Science day on Tuesday February 21st. We will be discovering our senses. We will also celebrate Mrs. Lessentien's 1/2 birthday and Wednesday we will attend mass for Ash Wednesday. A.M. kindergarten and A.M. K-club will walk over to the church with the rest of the school in a silent procession, starting on Franklin street. The students will recieve their ashes at mass.

I went to a workshop Friday on more ways to use our smartboard, I thought I knew a lot about it, but I was blown away at the endless possiblities. I can't wait for some "FREE" time to try out these new ideas. It just goes to show you there is always something to learn. I also attended a workshop on IPADS in the classroom. I bring my Ipad in for use during my small reading groups, but would love to have more in the class (someday!!!) I learn of a few more great apps for the Ipad that I would love to share with you if anyone is interested just ask me.

This week please send me a note and tell me what I would love to have more of in my classroom and I will give your student a "Large" sticker for their folders.

Thanks for reading.

Next week we will finish up the month talking about dental health.

Assemble the Minions.... It's the 100th day!

This week we had our 100th day! It was 100 times the fun! We celebrated with several 100 day activities and some Minion cupcakes!!! We started our day with 100 licks of a lollipop and we charted how it looked before and after our 100 licks. Next we discussed what 100 activities we could do. So many of your children said they could eat 100 hamburgers, yikes I don't want to be around for the after affect of that activity. We also estimated where 100 steps would take us in our school. We took 100 steps and ended up in the lunch room! (I wish it was lunch time, we could have had a treat while we were there) We also wrote about what we would do if we had 100 dollars! They will be part of our class books that will come home soon! To end our celebration we ate some cupcakes that were decorated like the Minions from the movie Despicable Me! (My favorite movie, well for this year, very funny!) I am not a baker and as I was making them I questioned why I took on this task. ( I had many problems) However, the student's reactions were priceless. Worth every issue I had. On Friday, we presented our 100 day projects, the students gave their clues and presented their bottles. It was tons of fun guessing what was in each bottle. The pictures and clues will be made into class book that will come home. Of course my camera died during he last 3 presentations, so I am grateful Mrs. Marsicano was there taking pictures. It's always good to have a back-up plan.
For visiting my sight this week.... if you send me a note telling me the name of my favorite movie, I will give your child a crazy crayon pencil.... ( If it feels like I am bribing you to visit my web blog... I guess I am. This helps me know if anyone is actually reading this! Please read this!)
Have a blessed week, check back next week! My goal is to update on Friday nights, but it seems lately it is Sunday night!

Pictures from Groundhogs Day!

New website to try at home

I have found a new website that has some great learning games for all students. It is www.cookie.com
I tried some of the games and they are alot of fun. You will need a flash player to use this site, so if you are using an iPad you will need to down load iswifer, ( i had to pay for it, but it works and it wasn't expensive.). I open iswifter first then type in cookie.com.

I will be uploading pictures from ground hogs day this week, so come back to see them.

This week we will be celebrating our 100th day,we have lots of fun actiities planned and a special cupcake treat. Yummy! Don't forget to finish your 100 day project. We are going to have a lot of fun guessing what everyone brought in.

This week, send me a note with the name of the website I recommended and your student will recieve a lollypop from our lollypop bouquet.

More to come.