Flowers and Plants

Our classroom was blooming with fun activities this week as we studied how plants and flowers grow.  We even planted some seeds of our own, and they'll (hopefully) be growing in the front lobby of our school in the next few weeks!  We talked about how plants need sunlight, soil, air, and water to grow, so we planted green bean seeds in our own little pots that will go home in a few weeks.  We also made some fun crafts and worked on our last letter of the alphabet.  Hard to believe we've covered all 26 letters already!  The next few weeks will be spent on review of our letters, shapes, color words, numbers 1-20 and sight words as we prepare for our last assessment.  We'll continue to work on new sight words each week, and we'll continue to count to higher numbers as well.  These kiddos also made some flowers out of paper plates and even played with artificial flowers and soil in our sensory bin as well.  Hope you enjoy seeing all of our fun activities from the week!

We talked about the process of how trees and plants grow by starting with a small seed and grow larger and larger.  We created a similar sequence picture and glued it in order of how a tree would grow.

We had a few friends who were our Students of the Week this week and drew pictures of them. We're planning to squeeze everyone in before the end of the year!

 

 These kiddos painted their paper plates to look like flowers.  Some of them even chose to use a pattern of colors on their petals as well.

We traced the sentence "X is for Xylophone" and then made our own xylophone crafts for our letter of the week.  Check these out in the hallway!

My sweet Mom came in and helped with some of our activities as well this week.  She used to teach 1st grade, so she loves to be around little ones when she gets a chance.  It's so nice to have extra help at the end of the year too! :)

We used our fingerprints and markers to decorate our plant cups that we used to plant our green bean seeds in.

We were so thankful for a pretty day to go outside and plant our seeds!

We brought in items for the letter X for Show and Tell this week.  Because of this challenging letter, we said kiddos could bring in items that just had X in the name and didn't necessarily start with X. :)

We had a total of 3 xylophones (just in 2 different pictures).

We had 1 box of Kleenex.

We had 3 letter X's brought in by blocks, flash cards, or foam letters.

We had 2 mini X-rays.

We had 3 boxes (lunch box, jewelry box, and idea box).

We had 1 X-box game controller.

We had 1 fox.

We had 1 T-Rex.

We had fun playing inside the classroom with blocks and playing with flowers in the sensory bin too.

We brought in the light board to play with X-rays and look at them in the light for our letter X week.

I decided to feed these kids dirt and worms this week!  We had our usual snacks, and on Friday I brought in chocolate (dirt) pudding with Oreos and gummy worms on top.  The most delicious dirt and worms you'll ever eat!

After all that sugar, we needed a chance to work it off in the MIM room!

Hope you have a blessed week!