Mummies in the Morning

Our third Magic Tree House book was "Mummies in the Morning." We worked together with our group to make pyramids and sandy landscapes for our props to use during dramatization...

 We wrote facts that we learned about Egypt on whiteboards during "Write Along". Here one student wrote "Mummies were wrapped in linen strips." We are becoming quite the writers!

Halloween

We had so much fun at our Halloween celebration! Thank you to all of the parents who helped out and sent things in! We enjoyed yummy snacks...

 We did some arts & crafts...

 We played Halloween BINGO!...

Pumpkin Day! (a little late)

Just getting around to upload some photos from "pumpkin day" back in October! We did all sorts of fun activities with our pumpkins that we got while we were on our apple picking field trip. We measured how tall and wide they were with unifix cubes, we weighed them, put them in the water table to see if they would sink or float...I always love this activity because the kids are all so amazed that the pumpkins float even the BIG one!

Market Farm

We have been playing a new game during math centers called "Market Farm." The "manager" (the person who has the check mark card) picks a number and marks their order amount on the order form and circles what type of food they would like. They put the order form in the envelope and pass it to the "farmer" (the person with the hand card).

 The "farmer" has to fill the order they receive from the manager by counting the amount of cubes that the manager marked on the order form, into the bowl. Then they have to deliver the order to the Market.  The "manager" has to check the order to make sure that the "farmer" gave them the correct amount. the "manager" uses the counting board to place one cube on each dot for the appropriate number to check the order. Then the "manager" tells the farmer whether or not the order was correct and the "manager" makes one more order before the partners switch roles.

Math Centers

Here is one of our math centers “Race to Trace.” We play with our study buddies and we each get a turn to roll the die. Then we have to trace the number that we rolled. The first person to trace all of the numbers in their row wins! Click here to print out and play at home!

Another math center is “Numberline Hopscotch” we have to jump on each number as the rest of our group members are waiting in line clapping and counting the number that the jumper is on. We have to practice having self-regulation and all counting the same number that the jumper is on…we can’t count too quickly or slowly.

Here is the “storyboards” center. One partner picks a number and the other partner has to count out that many cubes onto a board. Then they have to tell their partner what they are pretending the cubes are, and our partner will check our cubes to make sure we have the right number than we switch!

Castle Making!

We were very busy making props to go along with the second Magic Tree House book “Knights at Dawn."

We got to sponge paint the castles with our group!

Fire Safety

Thank you to the Fire Fighters that came in to talk to us about fire safety.

We learned to crawl underneath the smoke in order to get out.

We got to see what a real fire fighter would look like with all of their equipment on…

They even gave us our own fire hats!