Mrs.Crouch’s Blog

Mark your calendar for Bubble Day on Wednesday, May 14th.   A flyer was sent home in your Friday folder with all the details.  Remember to dress for the weather on that day.  We will be spending the majority of the day outside.  If you are sensitive to the sun please apply sunscreen and/or bring a hat for protection.  We will also be having another picnic lunch on the school grounds so remeber to bring your lunch.  Bring your bubbles and have a great time!!!!!

This week we talked about all the special people in our lives.  We wrote to our mothers as part of this unit to tell her why she is the best mom ever and ways we can show our love!  We walked to the post office to mail our letters.  One of the workers at the post office talked to our group an explained what happens to the mail and how it gets delivered to our homes.  We stopped by the park for a picnic lunch on the way back to school and spent time on the park playground.  It was a fun day for everyone!

This week we talked about different kinds of dinosaurs, the places they lived and what kind of food they ate.  We also talked about people called paleontologist who uncover the fossils of dinosaurs. 

We made dinosaur food as a fun way to end our dinosaur unit.  We read and followed the recipe and made the dinosaur food.  Mrs. Sexton took pictures and then we participated in a cooperative writing activity.  We had to put the pictures in the correct order.  Then we met in groups and wrote a sentence about what was happening in the picture.  Our pictures and sentences are posted in the hallway for others to read.  We hope they can solve the mystery ingredients!

We have been working hard learning different blends and word families.  We have brainstormed and written words beginning with th- and words that belong to the -unk word family.  Try and make a list of th- and -unk words.  You can either write your answers on a piece of paper or answer on the blog.  You may get to be the caboose in line and turn out the lights and shut the door everytime we leave the room for a day.

We have been talking about zoos and zoo animals.  Everyday we have visited zoo webcams hoping to see the animals we have been talking about in class.  We saw a ferret and panda.  We watched the zoo keeper feed the penquins.  We also saw an elephant.  If you would like to visit this website and visit several zoo cams around the world the website is listed below- have fun!!!!!

http://www.zoos-worldwide.de/zoocams.html

We made butter!  Tell your family about how we took heavy whipping cream and put it in a jar.  We took turns shaking the jar.  Talk about all the changes that happened and how it changed from a liquid to a solid- BUTTER!  Share with your family how yummy it was on crackers, mmmmm……

This week we talked about speech bubbles.  We also talked about different farm animals.  If you can draw 5 farm animals and add speech bubbles with the sound that each animal makes you will receive a reward.  The reward for this assignment is being line leader for the day!

This week we introduced the math fact family of four.  If you answer my blog entry with those math facts you can choose a book for story time or a book that you would like to read to the class as a reward.

Insects have been our focus for this week.  We discussed the parts of the insect.  We talked about different kinds of insects.  On Wednesday we discussed the life cycle of a butterfly.  On that day we decorated a clothespin to be our caterpillar.  We put it in a brown lunch bag to represent a chrysalis.  The next day we opened our sacks to find a beautiful butterfly made from a coffee filter.  See our butterflies!

This is the time of the year when we plant a garden.  We have talked about the different parts of a plant and how they grow.  We read the story, Tops and Bottoms as part of our unit.  We talked about what part of the plant we eat of certain vegetables.  Together we made a mural and wrote one interesting fact about our vegetables.