Word wall stars

As a way to keep track of our word wall words, I've written them onto stars nd taped them to Popsicle sticks. I use them as flash cards during circle time to review. I also use them when we read out of big books. When we come to the word of the week we're working on, I have a student point to the word with the matching star. I also use these when playing musical sight words.

School helpers

To go over school helpers we created a list of all of the helpers in our school. I asked the students to pick their favorite helper and write how they help.

Letter U

For the letter U I gave out precut knives and spoons for the students to glue onto their U. I didn't have any forks so they drew their own.

Letter L

For our letter L paper I asked the students to color in the L to look like a tree and then they glued on precut leaves.

Heavy vs. Light

In science we talked about a scale and heavy vs. light. To reinforce this topic I gave the students precut parts of a scale and they cut out pictures from magazines and placed them on the scale accordingly.

Valentines Day unit

To start our conversation on Valentines Day we learned the sign language for I love you. I traced and cut out each students hand and glued down the appropriate fingers. The students wrote I love you and applied foam stickers. 

As a quick valentine to make instead of a card I gave each student a blank heart to fill in with ripped up pieces of paper.

To help hold all of our goodies from our valentines party I give each student a white paper bag and a valentine picture for them to glue on. After they glue it on they get to decorate the rest of the bag however they want.

 

LEARNING CENTERS

In math center each student got to pick a heart which told them what color and how many dots to put inside the heart.

Another mt h center was to graph candy hearts by color. I gave each student 15 hearts and they sorted them by color and then filled in the graph.

In writing center the students had to finish the sentence "I love my..." 5 different times.

If I lived in a snow globe

To go along with all of the snow we've been having we discussed snow globes. We created a snow gobe scene with chalk and crayons and attached the writing prompt "if I lived in a snow globe."