Happy New Year!!!

Thank goodness for 3 days weekend & 2 day school week & then a workday & PD.  Loving it!!!!  But I so need to read up on the Common Core I will be teaching on Friday.  That will come....so what's been going on in our class....LOTS.  We wrote our New Years Resolution & made a person celebrating News Years (got the idea from my newest addiction....Pineterest)  If you haven't heard of it please check it out!!!!  You will be addicted to:) 

This week we have sorted solids in Science, learned about Verbs.  Read the book The Animal Bop,  it talks about animals & the actions they do made into a fun song (CD comes with it).  After reading it I gave each child a beanie baby & they need to come up with a verb that their animal does.  They loved those beanie babies & kept saying I can't wait to use those again.  We then went around the room & made a tree map of their animal(noun) & action (verb). 


On Friday we learned all about Martin Luther King Jr.  We read a book about his life, watched a Discovery Streaming video & then did the following art project.  If you like it, click here, for a free download of the paper for the inside.

Check out the pictures of our last 2 weeks in review. 

Making our New Year's person

Finished New Year's people with our goals for the new year & how we are going to achieve them!!!

Science-  sorting solids

More sorting

Sorting Solids

Beanie Babies we used for Nuns & Verbs

Our tree map we made

We earned a Reward Day for filling our marble jar....so we played board games the kids brought from home & made a snowpal snack out of vanilla ice cream.  One of my students did bring in a neat game, Beat the Parents, it was the class against my assistant & I.  Great game but some hard questions.....I mean I watch the Disney channel & Nick but these stumped us both!!!!!haha

Eating our snowpal friends!!!!

Our Martin Luther King Jr. art project

Where we wrote what "Our Dream" is..... click here for it.

 I had started this post back at 8:30 in the morning but am just now getting it finished.  I have found some good ideas so now I need to work on those, such as Super Spelling Slippers from Funky in 1st Grade, lots of different version of Candy Land game cards from Seusstastic Blog, & an adjective lesson from Babbling Abby at The Inspired Apple.

That is all I got this week.  Hope you enjoy your day off tomorrow if you have one & the rest of your week.  And remember "Every student can learn, just not on the same day or in the same way."