Today, we had a visit from the Aquarium of Niagara's touch tank, through the STREAM outreach program!  We learned lots of facts about a sea star, sea urchin, hermit crab, lobster, and sea snail and then we were able to touch them.  Later in the year, we will...

We have been learning about making healthy food choices!  We sorted foods into food groups, used the MyPlate.gov plate as a guide for what our plate should look like at mealtime, and then we each created a dinner plate of healthy foods we would...

We are 100 days...

  We are becoming addition experts!  To practice addition, we used a snowman spinner to spin two numbers to add.  We wrote an addition sentence and completed a ten frame to match each one....

We read lots of books about penguins and learned that there are 17 different kinds!  We used a tape measure to show how big each one is and compared that to our heights.  We talked about what penguins eat, how they stay warm, and acted out how they move.  We...

To introduce Antarctica, we read "If You Could Go to Antarctica".  We talked about how the Arctic and Antarctica are alike and different.  We wrote, illustrated, and read our sentences to tell whether or not we would want to go to Antarctica....

After learning about many Arctic animals, we painted many of them and created and Arctic scene....

We listened to the book "Over in the Arctic" and made a chart to show all of the animals that were named.  Then, we listened again and named the actions that each animal did.  We used this chart to write and illustrate a sentence about an Arctic animal.  ...

We are practicing counting and recognizing numbers 1-5, while learning to use mini eraser math centers!  We did a great job taking turns, sharing, and cleaning up.  Soon we will be learning other math...