President's Day

This week we learned about two important presidents, Washington and Lincoln, while we celebrated their birthdays with our President's Day activities.  We read about their lives in addition to other presidents and the jobs of a president.  We also learned about different coins, patriotic songs, and even the Pledge of Allegiance.  We worked on letter "G", the sight word "can" and the color brown, even though we dressed in red, white, and blue to be patriotic on Thursday.  We also did a fun little science experiment to test water tension on different coins, and we even held our own election.  After reading the book, "Duck for President," we used our very own "secret ballots" to decided if we would choose the Duck or the Farmer to be President.  So much fun all around!  Hope you enjoy the pics!

We traced letter "G for Grapes."

 We hunted for different sight word cards around the room and then wrote down the ones we could find.

We sorted pictures by their beginning sounds.

We read "Duck for President" and decided to hold our own election in class to chose whether we think the Duck or the Farmer should be president.

 The Duck won our election!

We tested surface tension in a science experiment by counting to see how many drops of water could fit on each coin before the water fell off.

We discovered the nickel held the most water!

 We created log cabins just like Abe Lincoln's out of popsicle sticks and glue.

We created a George Washington face with white cotton bail hair and all!

We made fireworks with chalk!

On Friday, we worked on tracing our names by using salt painting.  I traced their name in glue, sprinkled salt on it, and they had to use a dropper to drop watercolor on the letters to see the colors run all around.  It was sooooo cool!

We took turns drawing out letters out of the bucket, named them, and wrote them down on our dry erase board.

These cute little handprint crafts just never get old. :)

If I were president, I would... 

make sure all the animals are safe...

 make sure no one throws trash out their window...

help people and stop the bad people...

stop people from fighting...

We listened to some fun songs and videos that taught us about coins and which presidents are on the coins.

Show and Tell for Letter "G"

1 globe

1 set of grapes

2 giraffes

2 geckos

2 glue bottles

1 gorilla

1 Goldfish bag

1 gold medal

1 glove

1 book "Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site"

1 goal

1 pup's name that I can't remember, but I'm sure it started with G! :)

1 ghost

2 garbage trucks

Our handprints together made such a fun flag!

This little lady was our Student of the Week this week. :)

We enjoyed a parade of flags from another class!

Playtime with friends both inside and outside

Hope you enjoyed our pics from the week!

Afternoon Bridge/Lunch Bunch Activities

 

Working together to put numbers 1-20 in order on the mat

Making Abe Lincoln with our handprints :)

Building words with buddies

Playdough cookie cutter time

 

Building numbers

Building sentences using our sight words:  "I can see the White House."

Making Abe Lincoln paper plate masks

Painting fireworks with toilet cut paper roll tips

 Patriotic wind socks

Using spatial reasoning to figure out the shape/colors in the picture

Using tweezers to pick up and sort different coins

Flag hands :)

Playing the game "Doggie, Doggie Where's Your Bone?"

Minds in Motion fun

Playtime with friends

Hope you enjoyed all of our photos!