Month: April 2018

Wk 2-Recycle

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Reduce, reuse and Recycle

This week we will be learning about where the garbage goes that our garbage men take from the curb each week.  This video will help our students understand the process of recycling and garbage.

Our vocabulary this week is crush, recycle, real and pretend.  The weekly question is Where does trash go and What do workers do?  We will be making an earth out of paper mache and measuring each other with recycled items.

If your family are POP drinkers, please send in any empty bottles as we would like to make bird feeders out of the bottles.

Important dates:

May 10-Last field trip of the year to the Dunham Tavern.

May 24-PM DAP students will come in early and have lunch in the gym with the Kindergarteners

May 30th- Field day

May 31- Last day with students

Reduce, reuse and recycle

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Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

 

What do we know about recycling?  How can we take care of our Earth?  This Study is about Reducing, Reusing and Recycling.  Our questions for the week are :  Did you see any trash on the way to school today?  What could you do with this junk?  Does all trash stink? and  Should we throw trash out the window of our car or building?

When we think about recycling, the vocabulary for the week is recycling, describe, reuse, reduce and organize.  Our math is addition and subtraction and our review letters are F, G, H I and J.

We will finish our Art Projects for the ART Show and create our own art using trash.  Do you have a recycling bin at home . Discuss its use with your children.

Here is a fun video of a garbage collector named Mr.Gilly.  Enjoy!!

 

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Balls!!

This is our last week of our ball study.  Our questions for the week include; have you been to a store that sells balls, what animals play with balls and finally, do heavy balls bounce ? The children have enjoyed playing with a variety of balls this unit.  We have golfed, played balloon tennis, creating ramps to see which items will roll down the ramps and finally painting with many different balls.

This week the story is the fable, Three Billy Goats Gruff, and the story Play Ball.    The students will try to retell the story of the goats using a bridge in the housekeeping area and discuss the balls used in a variety of games.  Our Math unit is patterning and we will begin our review of the letters in the alphabet with A,B,C,D,E.

Reminder:  This week is a three day week as DAP will be closed on Thursday, giving the staff the opportunity to go to the Ohio Association for the Education of Young Children conference.  This is an super way our staff can learn new things together.   We will return on Monday with many new ideas.

What are balls made of?

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Image result for what is inside of ballsWhat is inside this soccer ball?

Our questions for the week are:

Can you make a ball?  What do you think is inside these balls? Do you think a bubble is a ball? and Can this ball be opened?  Each day the students are asked one of these questions regarding balls.  It is fun to see what they think the answer will be?  We then add up each group of answers to see which group (yes/no)has the most or least.

We will explore balls by looking inside baseballs, popping bubbles that are the shape of balls, looking inside a soccer ball and making predictions on what is inside a variety of balls.  For math we will be sorting,  we will be painting with balls of ice and beginning our projects for the art show.  We will read a Ball for Daisy and Balls.

This is one of the stories we will read this week?  It is a picture book about A Red Ball for Daisy.  It will be fun for the students to write their own words for the book.  See if your student can tell the story by looking at the pictures.

 

BALLS!!!

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Balls everywhere!!!

What would we find inside a baseball?  A cake or cork?  We will make our predictions and vote on what is inside.  It will be fun to see what the children think are inside.  This week we will be reviewing the letters Y and Z , be adding and subtracting and creating a masterpiece with golf balls, straws and paint.  We will be reading Little Red Riding Hood for out story this week, making predictions about what may happen to “Red Riding Hood.”  We will be playing solo cup bowling and painting basketballs.

 

PM CLASS ONLY:  This Thursday we will be going on our April Field trip to Cleveland Natural History Museum.  Please have your child at school by 11:45 AM.