American Symbols

Last Friday we spent the day learning all about American symbols. We read books, looked at pictures, and watched a great video on BrainPop Jr. (Here is the link in case you want to review at home: U.S. Symbols Video) BrainPop Jr. is a wonderful site that contains tons of free videos and games for different grade levels, I highly suggest browsing the site with your child when you have some spare time.

The eight major symbols we learned about are as follows:

Bald Eagle-symbol of strength, freedom, and bravery.

The White House-This is where the President of the United States lives and works. It is also called the "People's House".

The American Flag-symbol that represents all 50 states and the original 13 colonies. We recite the Pledge of Alligence each day to the flag to show our loyalty.

The Georgia Flag-symbol of the state we live in. Each day when we walk out to recess we stop and look at the American flag and Georgia flag flying in front of our school.

The Lincoln Memorial-symbol to celebrate the work President Abraham Lincoln did for our country.

The Washington Monument-Tall, pointy building located in Washington, D.C. near the White House to celebrate the work of our first President George Washington.

Statue of Liberty-gift from France to celebrate America's birthday. It sits in the middle of the harbor in New York City.

The Liberty Bell-located in Philadelphi, Pennsylvania it was rang to celebrate the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence (rules of our country).

Can your child name each symbol?

Crunchy Mynchy Party!

To celebrate learning our first consonant digraph /ch/ we had a crunchy munchies party! Friends tasted different snacks that had the /ch/ sound in them: chewy chocolate chip cookies, cheez-its, chocolate chips, cherrios, chocolate cherrios, chedder chex mix, and chedder cheese cubes. Here are the results of our taste test!

Grandparents Day Breakfast

Last Monday our friends celebrated Grandparent's Day by inviting their grandparents or a special guest to breakfast. We had a great morning spending time with our special guests. Thank you to those who came and those who contributed food. This year was the biggest turn out of guests we have ever had! Here are some pictures of our friends at the breakfast!

My friends Caylee and Wylin were so proud of their floor puzzle I just had to take a picture and share it with you! They worked hard and it looks great!

What time is it? Funruntime.com!!

Today was the big Fund Run day! Our sweet friends participated first thing this morning running as many laps as they could around the track. Mr. Awesome helped us warm up our bodies before running too. We've been learning a lot of great lessons from our Fund Run friends and I've noticed the one that stuck with our friends was "Winners Never Quit". I am so impressed with our friends' enthusiasm to apply this saying not only to the Fund Run but also to their school work. I heard many friends saying today while we were working on our Elmer Elephants that they needed to do a great job completing it because winners never quit. I could not have asked for a better response to the Fund Run friends' lessons. Thank you for all of your support with the Fund Run and here are a few pictures for those of you who could not make it today!

This week was also all about colors. We've covered the colors red, purple, white, and the whole rainbow for picture day. We read the book "The Crayon Box That Talked" and made our own crayon boxes practicing matching the colors to their color word. On our purple day, we read the book "Harold's Purple Crayon" and made our own purple fingerpaint with shaving cream and red and blue food coloring. Our friends really enjoyed this activity even though it was super messy! We also read the book "Elmer" today and made our own Elmer's coloring by numbers. Tomorrow we will read "Brown Bear Brown Bear, What Do You See?" and make our own Brown Bear books adding the colors to the pages. Here are some pictures to describe our color study so far!

Happy Long Weekend!

It's been a whole week since my last blog post and I appologize, this last week got away from me! We were busy, busy, busy learning the letters g, m, l, and h as well as our nursery rhymes. I'll let some of our pictures do the talking to describe parts of our week. I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend, I know I did! War Eagle!

Owen put this floor puzzle together all by himself during centers!

While studying the letter "M", we graphed M&M's candies and then ate them!

Here are some of the playdough L's we made! My friends decided on their own they needed both an uppercase and lowercase L!

The Fund Run people helped us celebrate Brianna's birthday on Friday by singing to her during their visit!