Monday
Weekend News
Finley - I play tag with my brother and my mommy in my backyard. I also play inside with my toys. I also did homework. I clean up my playroom.
Aya - I go to bed. I ate breakfast. I eat pancakes, and sausage and watermelon. I go to my Gigi's house and she just pick me up. I take a bath.
Grant - I play mommy and Clarke. I watch tv show.
Evie - My daddy did my pony tail. I eat cereal it Honey Nut Cheerios.
Renata - I watch a show and I play with my baby brother. I also play with Simba. He is a stuffy and he so cozy. I also wear my Lion King jammies when I was sleeping with Simba.
Elliott - I go to Maple Acres and I climb on tractors. I look at farm animals. I see ponies and goats and donkeys and chickens. We look for pigs but we didn't see any. We saw corn for chickens.
Lila - My uncle Adam came and visit me. I play mermaid with him and we laugh. We went to the park with daddy and uncle Adam. On Saturday I go to my dance class. Yesterday we had a playdate with Liv. We build a big city. We watch the Bears play football.
Lake - I watch a show. I also play with my sister Gray. I also play in my house with my baby sister.
Masai - I went downstairs with the bean bag and I watch Kindergarten musical. My mommy went to work. I eat mash potatoes with spinach inside. I take bath before I go bed.
Logan - I take a nap and then I was playing with my sister. I watch a movie on my tv. I go to the mall.
Colby - I play my mom. I play my motorcycle. I go McDonalds We did all that.
The Cardinals worked on designing their very own masterpieces in art class today. Friends used bottles of glue to first create a design on their paper. Johanna then gave out tiny beads. Friends used these beads to put on top of the glue. The final results were beautiful and impressive. This work of using glue bottles and tiny beads required using friends fingers muscles and working on their pinch grip. These masterpieces should be framed, they are so nice!!
Back in the classroom, we had snack time followed by morning meeting and then small group work. We set up three literacy stations in which friends rotated through. The Cardinals worked on recognizing uppercase letters, identifying letters sounds and writing letters that were called out in random order. We will make these groups smaller and do one on one work as well. Ask your Cardinal what they like about doing this work?
Tuesday
Alicia began class by going over our body parts in Spanish. Followed by a game of swatter then Canima (Walk). We walked around the classroom and then Alicia said, para (stop). She then pointed to a body part and friends said it is Spanish! Today it was Lake's turn to squeeze la vaca!
Renata's mom Phallon came to do an activity with us! First Phallon read the book How To Catch A Unicorn by Adam Wallace & Andy Elkerton. The story is told by a Unicorn! Next, Phallon told friends they were going to create their very own Unicorn traps. The Cardinals were very excited to get started! Friends worked with shoe boxes brought in by Phallon. They also used glue, small pom-poms, glitter glue, stickers, colorful tape and gems to make their traps most inviting to Unicorns. As friends worked their were very quiet as they focused on choosing the right items to decorate!! These Unicorn traps look so awesome. The Cardinals are going to catch many Unicorns!! Thanks, Renata, for sharing your mom with us!! Thanks, Phallon, for reading and sharing this activity with us!!
Wednesday
Due to the rain this morning, the Cardinals, Hummingbirds or Catbirds did not walk over to our Meeting House for our debut with the rest of lower school. So, we had our meeting for worship time together in the music room. We all settle into silence, followed by a teacher reading the book, You're Here For A Reason by Nancy Tillman. We settled back in for a few more minutes and then finished by singing Peace Like A River.
Ashanti read us the books The Big Pest by Lane Smith and If We Were Dogs by Sophie Blackall. The Cardinals had much to say about these books - who had a cat, dog or fish, if the dogs were big or small. The colors of their cat/s and if they could get a pet what pet they would want! Each friend then chose and checked out a book to bring back to our classroom!
Lila led us into music class and we began practicing for our Winter Program!
Thursday
The Cardinals listened to a read aloud called Thankful by Kathryn Jewett. We then asked each Cardinals to draw, what they are thankful for. Friends finished up by giving dictation or did kid-writing to complete this journal entry! Here is what friends had to say:
Lila - I am thankful for being with my family because I like how we play games.
Lake - I am thankful for my family and my baby sister and I am also thankful for my friends.
Finley - I am thankful for playing with my family because I like playing with my family.
Masai - I am thankful for playing outside in the playground next to my house. And also, I am thankful for doing things. I like to do so much.
Grant - I thankful my sister Clarke cause I love Clarke.
Simone - I thankful for doing everything I need to.
Logan - I am thankful for my mommy and daddy reading a book before bed because I like my family.
Aya - I thankful my family because I like playing on their phones.
Renata - I am thankful for being with my best friends because I love playing with them. They are my best friends.
Elliott - I thankful for playing with my brother and being with my family because I like when we go somewhere with each other.
Colby - I thankful for my baby and my mom and dad. I also thankful playing basketball my dad because I like to.
Evie - I thankful playing Nata and Lake cause my best friends.
In Gym class our focus was on pinch grip as friends pinch and toss scarves in the air and then caught them. The Cardinals also ran, jumped, skipped, hopped, galloped, danced, and made creative movements with their scarves!
Friday
The Cardinals continuing their math work today. We had three stations in which friends rotated through. The stations were number recognition, one to one correspondence, and creating numbers.
We met our second grade partners outside on our playground! The Cardinals had fun playing a variety of games and having conversations. It was a wonderful site to see most of our Cardinals standing at the door looking in, to see when our buddies were coming out!!
