Balls

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.

 

Ball study

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We will be returning back to the curriculum this week and will be in week 2 of our ball study.

This week we will be painting with balls, strengthening our fine motor by putting pipe cleaners into plastic golf balls, in sensory table we will be doing  sink or float experiments all week. We will have our own skee ball set up in dramatic play and will be keeping score. Our letters this week are U and V.   It is that time of year when  sign ups for recreation leagues begin.   The students get really excited as we expose them to many of the sport and balls they will be using on their teams.

What are balls made of?

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This week we will be exploring what balls are made of.  If anyone has any balls that have split or are apart that would be awesome. It will save Mr. Bill our custodian from having to cut them in half!! It will be interesting to hear what the students predict what is inside of the balls.

Our letter this week our letters are review: Q, Z, I, F, M, P, and V.  Our math activities will surround addition and subtraction. This week we will attempt to paint with marbles.  It will be great fun.  Again as the weather gets hotter and we spend time outside, please put sunscreen on your child.  Without a doctors script we are not allowed to do so.

PM CLASS:  We are in the process of rescheduling our field trip that we missed this last Thursday. We will let you know when it is scheduled.

As we get closer to the end of the year, we will gradually be sending home clothes,  notebooks, and headphones.

May 26 at 6:30 is the all building end of the year celebration with food trucks galore.  Try to come it will be great fun.

Do All Balls Bounce?

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This week we will be exploring whether or not all balls bounce.  If a ball is heavy does it bounce?  We will be using tubes and ramps to see if all balls roll and bounce.  We will be reading the book called Bounce and the Fairy Tale, The Three Billy Goats Gruff.  Challenge your child at home to find a ball that rolls.  See if you can roll the ball down many different ramps.  Create your own ramp using paper towel tubes or swim noodles.  Building with your child creates hours of fun.

Our letter of the week is Z and our math lesson is on subtraction and addition.  We will be finishing up our Mothers day Gifts that I know the children are excited to give to you.

A great big Thank you to everyone who honored the teachers last week for Teacher Appreciation week.  Truly it is our pleasure to work with your child.

 

BALLS!!

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Our study this month is BALLS.  We will investigate how they bounce, roll, size and our favorite.  The students will play with a variety of balls, paint with them, measure them and explore what in on the inside of them.  For math this week we will be measuring and the letters are review , Y, U, J, X, H, N

As we begin to wind down the school year we will try very hard to play outside each day.  It is prohibited for us to apply sun screen to your child at school without a medical statement from your doctor.  If sunscreen is a summer protocol for your family, please apply it to your child before they come to school each day.

If you attended the ice cream social and art show last Friday thank you for coming.  It was a huge success!!

PM Class ONLY:  Our last field trip will be back to the Music Settlement however this time we will be exploring outside and water. We advise you to wear boots as we may be getting WET!!

It is hard to believe that school will be ending soon.  Our last day of DAP is the same as the district June 8, 2017.  The children have learned so very much this year and we are super thrilled to have been witnesses to their success.

We would like to welcome Gwenn Kelly to the morning class and Victoria Smith.  The morning class is very busy and fun with 15 students!!