Happy Birthday Abe Lincoln

This past week we learned about President Lincoln. We drew step-by-step portraits of Mr. Lincoln:

We Know Abe Lincoln

We spent time today learning about Abraham Lincoln. We made a book about his life and watched this video too. We learned that our state, Illinois, is called "The Land of Lincoln"

99 Days and Counting...

We are so excited! Today was the 99th day of school....that means tomorrow will be day 100!!! If you know anything about us, we've been counting every school day since the beginning of Kindergarten and anxiously awaiting the BIG day! Here's a song we sang that could only really be done in class on day 99 ;-)

99 Days The AM class sang together, the PM class got to sing to the WHOLE SCHOOL!! ;)

End of January?

Was yesterday REALLY the end of January? We are not used to having such nice weather this time of year. Just a year ago we were bracing for a bad winter storm! But take a look at how nice it was on the LAST DAY OF JANUARY!

We stepped out to take a quick picture. We didn't even need our coats!

We are learning about 10's & 1's

We have been busy learning about 10's and 1's in math. We worked with partners, got a random number and then used unifix cubes to build our number. Take a look at what we made:

A visitor...

On Thursday, Mr.s Blakely's son came for a short visit in the afternoon. We've heard a lot about him, but this is the first time we met him! ;-)

Counting the Teen Numbers...

We continue to work on learning the difference between 17 and 71 and other confusing teen numbers. Perhaps your class needs a little help with this too.
We're hoping this song will help:

A few times listening and you won't be able to stop singing! ;-)
Come on everybody.... ;-)

No People Like SNOW People...

The weather has been so INCREDIBLY warm here that we have to work from "memory" on what it's like to make a snowman. ;-) We worked with paper to create every part of our snow people! We had to be sure to have something on it's head (hat, hair, earmuffs, etc), a face including eyes, nose and mouth, arms, a scarf and something down the middle...buttons, zipper, vest, etc. When we were all done, we had WONDERFUL snow people! Take a look at a few of them!
We don't know when we'll get snow for sure....but in the meantime, these will have to do!

The Gingerbread Man

 This week we listened to several versions of THE GINGERBREAD MAN. We took two of the stories and compared them to each other. We used hula-hoops to help us make a GIANT Venn-diagram, then we talked about the characters, settings, and the variations of the ending. We will read more stories and see how they are alike and different. Check back soon for more Gingerbread fun!

 

Hey Pete, We love our Shoes too...

We are still enjoying our Pete The Cat books. Today we got to wear a pair of shoes that we love too! Take a look at the shoes we wore to school....
These are shoes from the AM class:

These shoes are from the PM class:

What are your favorite shoes?