Under The Sea

Today in kindergarten we went UNDER THE SEA!!  The kids came in to a classroom decorated to the nines with ocean waves and algae hanging from the ceiling

After we did the morning pledge, we went to centers where students had to make words on a submarine, fish for words with diagaphs (but don't catch the SHARK!), and find buried treasure in the sand to practice sight words. Thanks to Mrs. Kramer, we had Under the Sea and other fun ocean music playing in the background!

For math, we put sea shells in order from 1 to 20 and then

we graphed sea animals.  In the afternoon we did some under the sea math and literacy activities with our reading buddies, and we hula hooped and played bean bag toss with some friends from Mrs. Ballard's class.

(This was a work in progress!)

We also had the chance to go to Star Lab today.  The kids learned about constellations and heard some stories. 

Tomorrow is Tropical Island Day!  The fun will continue.  Students will rotate to each grade level and compete a fun, Tropical Island related activity.  They will come back to the classroom and read books and have a luau party.  Just a friendly reminder, tomorrow is a 11:05 dismissal!

Star Lab

I was SO excited that we got to bring Star Lab back this year!  It is awesome for the students to get to experience this.  It is one of the things I remember most about when I was in elementary school.  Although, it is a lot smaller than what I remember.  :)

I tried to get a picture of the inside, but as you can see, it did not work out so well! 

The inside has projections of constellations and stars.  The kids heard a story about the constellations and then had to try to find them without the lines already drawn.  They really seemed to enjoy it and I hope we get to bring Star Lab back next year!  I want to thank Mrs. Vande Voorde for going through the training and running Star Lab this week!  She is the best!

We have been working hard in first grade, but don't worry, we still stop to have a little fun every now and then.  This week we played Shake It Off.  Each kid got five sight words stuck to them on post it notes.  I then played the song Shake it Off (Kids Bop Version). The kids had to shake off their word wall words.  When the song was over they had to find five more words off the ground and write them on their sheet.  They had so much fun!

Here is a little video of the shaking!