Bug Feeling Strategies

We LOVE when our guidance counselor, Mrs. Sitsch, and Ruthie Bell come to visit us!!  Each time they visit us Mrs. Sitsch helps us with our feelings and friends.  This week she came into our classroom and taught us a new "bug feeling strategy".  The strategy can be used if you are feeling frustrated with yourself.  It is called "take a break".  To use this strategy you walk away from whatever task you are engaged in and after you have taken your break you go back and return to the task.  A sign that we learned to show others that we need to "take a break" is to make a "T" with our hands.  You can see this in the picture below.  All of the strategies that Mrs. Sitsch has taught us have been great!  My personal favorite is the "bubble breathing"!  Ask your child if they have been using their "bug feeling strategies"!  If they are, see which ones are their favorite!

Opinion Writing Celebration!

Last week we celebrated all of the hard work that we have done in writing workshop!  We finished up our unit on opinion writing pieces and wanted to celebrate and share our work with our friends.  We spent the week preparing.  First we looked through all of our writing and picked our favorite piece that we were proud of.  Then we went back to edit.  We added details to our pictures, made sure our punctuation and capital letters were in the correct place and made sure we could read everything.  Here is a picture from the whole group part of our celebration!  We have a lot to celebrate in the Learning Lambs class!

Ice Experiments

This week in social science we have been exploring ice.  We have done all kinds of ice experiments and learned a ton!  Some of the things that we learned about was insulation, what salt does to ice, how ice is formed and what ice can turn into.  We learned about different things that freeze and do not freeze and the reason for this.  Here is a picture of one of our ice experiments!  The picture was taken during the tasting part of our five senses investigation.  Ask your child about these ice experiments and try some of them out at home.

Welcome back!

We have all had a wonderful first week back from our winter break!  I hope that you all were able to spend some quality time with your families.  When the kids came in Monday they all seemed to have grown and gotten taller!  We have spent the week learning new things, reviewing others and catching up with good friends in our class!  Getting back into the routine can sometimes be difficult, but all of the kids seem to be doing very well!  One of the highlights of our week was when we conducted a sink or float experiment.  We had a blast with it!  Ask your child what all they learned as scientists!

Pajama Day Success!

We had such a great time on Friday!  It was our last day of school before our winter break and we celebrated with a pajama day and a stuffed animal day!  The kids and teachers had a blast and below are some pictures that captured our day.  Enjoy!

Stuffed Animal Day!

Every time our class gets a compliment we get to add a piece to our Mr. Potato Head.  We get vote on which piece we want to add.  Today we completed our Mr. Potato Head by a compliment from Mrs. Sitsch!  Since we added the final piece we got to decide what we wanted to do to celebrate.  The class unanimously decided that they wanted to have a Stuffed Animal Day!  During Stuffed Animal Day the students get to bring in one stuffed animal from home.  They can bring in any stuffed animal as long as it can fit in their book bags.  The stuffed animals will be our buddies that day!  We will read to them, play with them during centers and even play a fun math game with them!  Our Stuffed Animal Day will be the same day that we have our Pajama Day, next Friday, December 18th.  Now it is time to work on completing our next Mr. Potato Head!

Calling all volunteers!

Winter break is quickly approaching and we need to start planning for the new year!  I am going to be sending home a volunteer sign up sheet on Friday.  Please fill this form out if you are interested in volunteering in our classroom starting in January until the end of the year.  We will need volunteers Monday-Friday from 9:00-10:00 in the morning (center time).  You will be helping in the art center.  I am asking that you send the form back by Wednesday, December 9th so that I have enough time to put together a schedule and can send it home before break.  This will allow us to be ready for the first week in January!