Liam was our Maple Leaf this week. He shared a poster he made with lots of pictures of him and his family, then his mom and his little brother, Henry, came in and taught us about volcanos. 
Liam made a volcano with his Mom out of paper machie and a bottle. It was so cool, Mrs. Stowers made it erupt, 3 times!! She put in vinegar (which smelled really bad), some jello to make it red, and baking soda. Then all the "lava" started to come out of the top. The kids loved doing this!! On Wednesday, we celebrated Liam's birthday and he brought in ice cream sandwiches for our treat. Thanks Liam, for helping to make this week so fun!!
After our science experiment, we introduced new centers. Our rice tub has now been converted to a polar region complete with snow (potato flakes), polar animals, igloos, dog sleds and dogs! We have peppermint scented play dough, a new wooden marble run and at the art center we made a winter blizzard with white crayons and glitter glue and now we're working on learning to lace as we make a mitten.
Our unit this week was winter and the weather sure cooperated!! On Wednesday, we read one of my favorite winter stories, The Mitten, by Jan Brett. To get ready to read it, we each said something that we know about mittens and then listed the ideas on the white board. Once the ideas were listed, we went back and read what we wrote together. Corduroy helped us with this! 
To help with reading comprehension, after we read the story, we tried to remember all the animals that crawled into the mitten. Then we each got the name of an animal we remembered on a word card and we acted the story out! We pretended a tunnel and a blanket were the mitten as we all crawled in and tried to stay warm, just like the animals in the story! 
Thursday was pajama day and Mika's half birthday. Her mom and little brother, Wren, came in to help celebrate. They brought in blueberry muffins, grapes and juice for snack. We made birthday crowns out of paper plates too!
Thanks Mika for helping make our day so terrific!!
Mrs. Jenkins and Mrs. Chyko were our teachers on Thursday, because Mrs. Gould had to drive her son back to college. Mrs. Chyko read us the story Bear Snores On and Baby Beluga. After celebrating Mika's half birthday, we had music time with Mrs. Jenkins. We learned a new song, "You Are My Sunshine".
On Friday, we read the Jan Brett story The Hat. Then we made our own hats.
We also had lots of fun playing with the marble run together!
We also had fun learning to sing the song Baby Beluga. What a busy week!!
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