This is, hands down, the kids favorite part of the day. Mine too, honestly!! This is our social-emotional learning time. We have just recently started incorporating our Second Step program that focuses on a variety of life skills: listening, problem solving, empathy, etc. It is wonderful!! During this time, we do a mini lesson together, then the kiddos get to choose their work area and get busy! Work areas range from art, to science, to collaborative games! We LOVE it!! We focus on specific character traits and read mentor texts that help support our learning. Our most recent character trait was "Optimistic". You'll notice in one of these pictures, that a sweet kinder friend is writing down some of our character traits! Heart melt! The kids work on engineering tasks, art projects and a variety of skills all while focusing on collaboration! Below: friends practicing sight words together, character trait lists, building a mouse trap together, and creating beds for goldilocks!
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Last week we learned all about different types of landforms! We went on a "landform hunt" and talked about different landforms and bodies of water and how to navigate them. To wrap up our study, the kids got to choose one landform to create...keeping in mind the plant and animal life specific to that landform. I was BLOWN AWAY by their creativity and the connections they made! Caves complete with bears, lakes with fish swimming around and trees surrounding it, and island complete with palm trees....these kids are amazing!
Man! What a day!!! We had so much fun celebrating being 100 days smarter. The kids came up with the funniest lists of things they would NOT want 100 of and things they would like to have 100 of. We tested to see how many times we could jump in 100 seconds...and learned that we have some seriously fast jumpers! Students practiced counting to 100 by ones and tens and I was blown away at what super counters they are! We all enjoyed our 100 day snack and counting out our sets of 10. To wrap our day, students participated in STEM Challenges such as building with 100 legos, 100 cup stacking, building playdough cakes with 100 candles, and rolling dice to race to 100. I think the students were pretty convinced that Mrs. Manning had stayed home for the day...and Grandma Violet had taken her place!
Practicing Number Combinations to 10 is WAY more fun when you get to show your work by writing on the table!
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