Fun with Dr. Seuss

We had a blast learning, reading, rhyming, writing, and laughing with Dr. Seuss.  We spent two weeks reading his books, exploring his characters, learning special spelling patterns, rhyming and much more!  Here are some pictures of our Dr. Seuss madness!

We made our own /at/ word family words!

After reading Dr. Seuss' Foot Book, we traced our feet,

decorated, described, and measured with cubes!

I have more pictures of our actual measuring and working, but my other camera won't cooperate at the moment!  I will add them as soon as possible!

 After reading The Cat and the Hat, we made our own Thing One with our handprints and then wrote a story following the story stem...If Thing 1 and Thing 2 came to my house...

Make sure to stop by our room to see these in person!  They are too precious!

 

After reading The Lorax, we learned about the Lorax project and how we can help our environment! 

After reading The Lorax we learned all about the Lorax project from this website...

http://www.seussville.com/loraxproject/

We made our own Truffula trees and then proceeded to write about The Lorax.  We completed the story stem...If I were the Lorax...

The children were asked to explain what they would do to help rebuild the community and help the trees, if they were the Lorax.  Next we took a picture in the Lorax's silly mustache!  We put this all together with our story!  Come check these out in our room as well!

 

A few more to come soon...

Dolphins

We have had a wonderful time learning all about dolphins!  We are in the process of constructing our very own dolphin to display in the Gallery of AEEC!  We hope to have pictures of our process up soon!  We will keep you posted!  During our studies we found many fabulous videos and sites on these amazing creatures!  Here is one of our favorite dolphin sites!  We hope you enjoy!
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/bottlenose-dolphin/

Holiday Fun

We stumbled upon a fun website with some precious songs!  Here is one of our favorites we have been singing and dancing to this week!  Mrs. H, in music, is even having the kids play instruments along with the song!  I know they will have a blast when we visit music on Friday!  There are many others to choose from if you click on Songs and then select the theme songs for Christmas.  Happy singing!

Love, 

Mrs. Gilmore
(click the link green link below)

S-A-N-T-A

www.cherryclipart.com

The Zones of the Ocean

We have had so much fun learning about the zones of the ocean.  We have focused on the Sunlit Zone, Twilight Zone, Midnight Zone, and Ocean Floor.  Each day we have been reading about the different zones, recording characteristics about the zone and the ocean life found in each.  

As an extension of our learning we are working on an Ocean Habitat fact book,

with each zone represented, and a fact about each.  

Pictures will be coming soon!  

In the meantime...here are a couple of great videos about the zones!  Hope you enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8101vCjM7nY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxNJNZTOSx8&playnext=1&list=PLylYgP0_kqVHm5XDiM5kprY05rhdyUHcR&feature=results_main
(you will have to copy and paste this link into your web browser)

Pumpkin Fun

During the month of October we studied the life cycle of pumpkins and learned how tiny seeds transform into beautiful pumpkins of all shapes, sizes, and colors!  We learned the names for all the parts of a pumpkin! We enjoyed strengthening our math skills as we measured our pumpkin, experimented with objects that sink and float, and counted the pumpkin seeds by tens!  We recorded the life cycle of a pumpkin to add to our fact books, baked pumpkin seeds,
baked pumpkin bread, and much more!  We were busy bees! 

 

We used cubes to measure how tall our pumpkin was and used links to measure the circumference.  Here are Alex, Lilli, and Delvin measuring and recording on our pumpkin fact sheet. 

Delvin recording how many cubes he counted as he

measured the height of our pumpkin.

 

 

Just a few of the wonderful books we used to learn

fascinating facts about pumpkins!

Hagood measuring with links.

Jaylen, Sadie, Christopher, and Gregory working hard!  We had a discussion on how to measure the height...some friends thought we should measure to the top of the orange rind and others

thought we should measure to the top of the stem. 

 We decided to measure both ways!

Weston, Khamyren, and Sammy busy measuring and recording!

 

 



Isaac, Shamara, Rhett, and Julia hard at work!

 

Tyler, Christopher, and Isaac working on their Pumpkin Glyph.

 

 

Time to clean out our pumpkin! 
Tyler was happy and ready to get his hands messy!

 

 

Gregory and friends waiting in line to help capture the seeds. 

 

 



Christopher and Lilli counting by tens.

 

Luke and Isaac counting by tens.

 

April and Delvin counting by tens.

 

Our many cups and piles of tens! 

Our pumpkin had well over 400 seeds!

 

Preparing our seeds to bake as a yummy snack!

 

 



Lilli, Dakota, Rhett, and Ty decorating their baby pumpkins.

 

Working on our pumpkin life cycle with our

M.U.D.P.I.E volunteer, Mrs. L.

Eagerly awaiting our cooking time...and 

 preparing to make pumpkin bread!

Mixing the batter!  Almost time to bake!

 

We had the best time with our pumpkin studies! 

Thanks for taking time to check out some of our fun adventures!

We look forward to many more ahead this year!

Love,

Mrs. Gilmore

 

AEEC's 4th Annual Trike Ride

We had a blast at our Trike Ride!  The kids loved racing the trikes around the playground circle!  We raised a great deal of money for our school!  Thank you for all you do for us!  We are so blessed to have such supportive families and to be a part of this community!  We hope you enjoy the pictures of our exciting event!

Another picture slideshow by Smilebox

A Special Visitor!

This afternoon, our wonderful assistant principal, Mrs. Folmar, came to read a story to our class!  She was very entertaining and the children loved getting to spend time with her and learn more about how she helps our school, the teachers, children, and parents!  Here are a couple of pictures! 

 Happy Friday!  Have a wonderful weekend!