Busy February!

February has been a busy month in our classroom and we've been playing and learning all day every day! Here are a few highlights from our learning adventures.

Starting with Math - we have been exploring numbers and number sense. As a class we created 12 different charts for each of the numbers - 1 through 12. Each student had to take a small piece of paper and using a variety of tools (markers, bingo dabbers, crayons, sequins, etc.) represent a number. For example, a student may have used a bingo dabber and dabbed 9 times on the paper to show the number 9. The kids had a blast and each made so many different numbers in a variety of unique ways! Our charts then turned into a class book and sits in our classroom for reading and counting fun.

Here a student walks through our number charts checking out what others have done. 

After learning about snow we started looking at Evergreen trees. We learned that they stay green all year round, they have needles and many students recognized them as Christmas trees! After reading about Evergreens, Ms.Katsuras brought in some branches and we explored them with magnifying glasses and even painted with them!

Painting with Evergreen branches made unique brush strokes and were very different from paint brushes!

Recently we have been playing with Duplo instead of Lego. Duplo is larger than Lego and has been allowing the students to create larger structures. Everyone has loved Duplo and it has been working fine motor skills and imaginations every day. Many students work together and build beautiful buildings and towers for people and animals!

Duplo imagination at its best!

Another exciting treat in our class has been a Playmobil Dinosaur set. It came complete with two dinosaurs and even a volcano! An addition to the set in our classroom is a Dinosaur book where students are encouraged to draw or write about the stories they are creating. Many students have been drawing elaborate dinosaur pictures and even include themselves in it! Here is a photo of one student problem solving with her art and tracing the dinosaur into her picture :)

As you can see we have been busy and our next post will be about our 100th day of school! It was a fantastic day filled with crowns, necklaces, pictures and bingo dabbers!