A New Study

Group Meeting:  We are going to be starting a new study this week.  We will be learning about simple machines.  A note will be going home with the children tomorrow explaining what the study will be about and how you can help.

Story:  Our story for today was Tap, Tap, Bang, Bang by Emma Garcia.  This is a picture book of tools and the sounds that they make.  The tools were working together to make something.  Ask your child to tell you what it was.

Small Groups:  The groups are back!  These are the activities and the schedule for this week.
Activity #1 (red group)  The children were introduced to 3 dimensional shapes.  They passed around a sphere, cube, cylinder, pyramid, and cone.  After they identified them all, we used a game on the Promethean board to sort items according to their 3 dimensional shape.
Activity #2 (yellow group) The children took a scoop of buttons, guessed how many were in the scoop, and counted how many after dumping them on a tray.  They compared how many were in each scoop.
Activity #3  (green group)  The children played a game called "Oh No!".   The children took turns reaching into a surprise box to pull out a capital letter card.  They were asked to identify the letter and it's sound.  They kept the card until they pulled out a card that said "oh no!"  Then they had to return all of their letter cards.

Large Group:  I introduced the new study of Simple Machines.  We defined a machine as something that does work.  A simple machine needs a person to provide the power.  We looked a various items that I had that are considered simple machines such as a scissors, tongs, screwdriver, pizza cutter, nutcracker, pliers, etc.

Snacks:  The morning class had cheese, crackers, pepperoni, and juice brought by Kolsyn.  The afternoon class had blueberries, granola cereal, and milk brought by Paxton.  Thank you!