Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Field trips are fun!

We had so much fun on our field trip today! We started out at Lowe's Home Improvement.

We are learning about lumber! We were able to see
a forklift operator lift lots of wood!

Learning so much about the garden center.

Look at all those tiny firefighters!


The firefighters wanted to show the kids what they
will look like when they put on their uniform. The kids
thought he sounded like Darth Vader!

This firefighter drives the truck and works the water.
Did you know that the fire truck has to obey all traffic
laws? Their siren lets you know to yield to them. However,
he said that if they go through a red light and there is
an accident, they are at fault. I thought that was crazy! :)

Jaws of Life!!
35,000 lbs of pressure



At Tega Cay Town Hall, we were able to see
a real police car! The kids loved hearing the siren!

Monday, March 18, 2013

Spring is almost here!!!

I am so so excited that spring is almost here! This weekend gave us a little preview of hopefully a nice and warm spring! This week's theme is spring. By the end of this week, your child should be able to tell you all about this season! 


Students are creating a weather book




Here, students are making a picture dictionary of spring words.
I didn't realize Reese's silly face until now!

These girls are working together to make a weather book.

Students are putting together cracked eggs. In order to do this,
they must solve the addition problem.


Have you heard? We will have ducks in 24 days! Ducks take 28 days to incubate and hatch. We put our eggs in the incubator Thursday. We should only have to wait about 24 more days!




In math, we are learning about 2D and 3D shapes.

In this center, students had to use toothpicks and marshmallows to create a 2D shape. This was their favorite math center! I wonder why! :)
Charlie made a hexagon!

Allisia made a triangle!

Trent made a square!

Librada made a square!

Tion made a square!
Going on a shape hunt!
Going on a shape hunt!

Going on a shape hunt!
Creating shapes with pattern blocks!


Creating shapes with pattern blocks!
Creating shapes with pattern blocks!

Creating shapes on geoboards!

Star of the week Enna!!


The kids did such a great job creating transportation vehicles! The principals from the Fort Mill schools were here last week. I shared a few with them. They were very impressed!













I love this background! Some of the students were absent
for the day we tested our vehicles. I wish I would have
taken all of the pictures in front of this!








Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Community Helpers


This week, we will begin our 2 week unit on community helpers. We will explore what it means to be a community helper. We will discuss the differences between community helpers that provide a good and those that provide a service. We will have our community helper field trip March 19.  We will be visiting different places such as Lowe's Home Improvement, Tega Cay Fire Dept., Tega Cay town hall and Town Tavern! (For lunch :))

Check out some of our centers from this week!
Looking for ending sounds

Unscrambling sight words

Flipping cookies to find sight words


Star of the week Gavin!!

Star of the week Sanskruti!!




On a separate note, Mrs. Crawford and I went to the Bon Jovi concert last night. We were lucky enough to sit on the front row! Yes...FRONT ROW!!!