Student's Choice!

Today we were able to pick our favorite activitiy from the past few months and do it again! The messiest one of course!

Rectangles

Our rectangle study had us building an English phone booth out of 13 rectangles and one half-circle!

 

O is for Olympics!

It's just a matter of weeks before the 2012 Summer Olympics will be held in London. What a better time than now to work with the letter 'O'. We made the Olympic rings with five Os and then we had a chance to make as many Os as we could!

 

Marbled Picture Frames

Our New Gel Board

Mrs. Burns made us a gel board! There is so much we can do with our new board but today we started with letter formations and loved it!

How to make your own gel board:

You need one large bottle of any hair gel. I used Dap hair gel, it's inexpensive and colored so it's still fun for the kids! I used two freezer zip lock bags to ensure no leaks occur. I then duct taped the bag down to a board so it could be used on the laps of my students or could become mobile and used anywhere in the room. I used fun colored duct tape to help with its appeal. I added the alphabet line from Handwriting Without Tears at the top as a guide for the students. They write letters and drew anything they wanted. They loved it! 

A Lesson in Shapes Leads to....a Camera!

Today in math we worked on shapes while we built our own cameras!

 

 

Plant Update!

Our plants are growing! ( Click here to check out the original post to see when we planted our seeds). We have been taking good care of our sprouts by giving them plenty of sunlight and watering them every day!

 

...and even though Mrs. Burns takes care of her sprout the exact same way...her's is growing at its own pace...wompwomp... : )