Spiders 2009

After learning about bats, we moved on to learning about spiders.  During the week, we:
-read our National Geographic for Kids magazine about “Web Weavers” (October 2009 issue)
- created a spider web on the floor of our classroom using numbers to know where to roll the “silky thread” to next
-read several Big Books about spiders (one [...]

Donors Choose Grant

I am so excited to share that our classroom was the reciepient of yet another grant through Donors Choose!!  We got a new camera through a grant we wrote.  Our old classroom camera had to be smacked against your hand in order to be able to see the picture on the tiny screen.  I purchased [...]

Pumpkins Day #1-#3

We’ve been learning and reading all about Pumpkins this week…even though I was out 2 days this week (my son was sick).  We started off the week by taking a picture walk through the Big Book Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington.  Then the children heard the story read aloud.  On the second day, the children [...]