Trains, cars and automobiles!

Continuing with our theme Community, the students learned about different modes of transportation in our community! Ask your child what transportation means! (It takes you and me from here to there!) They added vehicles to their community map, made airplanes, cars and buses!  Most of their work is on our walls, so there wasn’t much to put in Friday Folders this week! We will send them next week.

We also had our first community helper visit: Matthew’s dad-Firefighter Kevin!  The kids and I learned so much and we loved our firefighter badges! Thank you, Kevin!

We learned how firefighters are very important helpers in our community!

Check out what we were busy with this week!

Do you see some familiar places in our community?

We made gliders and flew them around the room!

Air transportation “flying" in our room!

Using our creativity to make transportation for our maps

The students made their own cars and wrote sentences 

inviting their friends to go on a fun ride!

Tommy is inviting his friends to go on a trip to Star Wars Land!

We are making a Transportation book and writing a page for each kind of transportation. 
The students arrange the words to make a sentence. Great sight word and reading practice!

Ravelle can go to New York on an airplane. She will get “fancy!"

Friendly Neighborhood Helpers, we thank YOU!

We began a new unit: Community and Transportation! As an introduction, we made a map of our classroom and school.  Using Google Earth, we saw a bird’s eye view of MATES and mapped out how we walk around the school everyday.  Our school community has quite a few helpers and the students wrote what some of their jobs are.

We love our MATES community helpers.

We expanded to our neighborhood and created a map with some places in our community. They did an amazing job recreating some familiar buildings!

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Measuring classroom supplies!

Everyone chose what community helper they would like to be when they grow up and wrote what they would do to help! I loved hearing why they wanted to be certain helpers.

Matthew is an astronaut.
He can go in outer space and fix satellites.

"Joshua is a sensei master. He can teach to fight and practice it."

Avery is a vet and she can take care of animals.

We worked on a Community Helpers book and the students wrote what each helper does! They used their new sight word “what” and shared their writing with each other.

Celebrations!

What a fun week of celebrations! We celebrated the 100th Day of School on Monday! They made 100th Day crowns, counted their 100 items, made a trail mix of 100 goodies, and used their imaginations to create a picture of the number 100.

Eliza used her imagination and made her 100 into a motorcycle!

100th Day trail mix!

To celebrate Washington and Lincoln’s birthdays, we made some important American symbols along as well as Washington and Lincoln!

Jaxson made a bald eagle!

Leah made Abe Lincoln!

For Valentine’s Day we graphed candy hearts, delivered Valentines, and recreated an art piece by Jim Dine!

Decorating cookies!

Special delivery!

I don’t think they noticed, but they are doing math!

Recreating Heart Art!

Bears, oh my!

This week we learned about bears in narrative stories. We read Ira Sleeps Over and met a teddy bear named Tah Tah! In the story, Ira has a hard time deciding if he should bring Tah Tah to his first sleepover. Ask your child what he ends up doing!  We had fun thinking of items we would pack in our own suitcases and wrote in their journals about a good or bad memory from a sleepover!



The students learned what makes day and what makes the nighttime (so we can have those fun sleepovers!)  They described what they do in the morning, afternoon, and nighttime. They also recreated Van Gogh’s Starry Night!

Jaxon created a beautiful night sky!

Jacob’s town is asleep under a starry night!

We read Goldilocks and the Three Bears and had a blast acting out the story! They made their own story boards to retell the story to you at home! They worked in groups to created a story “map” and we put them together to show the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

Working on our story maps!

Here comes Goldilocks!

Sequencing and retelling the story

Retelling the story with puppets!