President's Day

As if we weren't off of school enough due to snow days, we were off on Monday for President's Day. That meant a couple of things. 1- My kids were a little crazy since they "forgot" what it was like to be in school (I don't blame them after having a 5 day weekend!) and 2- it was a perfect time to teach about presidents! To teach about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, we watched a video on each one on Brainpopjr. Then we had a discussion about why each president was important to our country and various facts about them. As a class, we came up with a list of facts for each president and I typed them on the board. I also added pictures of each one, and they sure got a kick out of what they look like!

To show what we learned about the presidents, we each wrote 3 facts about either Lincoln or Washington and created a fun craft. Take a look at how they turned out!

February Bulletin Boards

For this month's bulletin board, my kiddies wrote a narrative paragraph telling what they would do if they had a love-bot. I told them to imagine their love-bot was their valentine for Valentine's Day and to think of things they would do with them. We came up with a list of ideas including buy them flowers, go to the movies, go out to dinner, buy them jewelry, and make them breakfast. Then we created our cute little love-bots. They got a kick out of them!

We were learning about fractions, so I had my students color parts of shapes and write the fraction they colored in on each shape. 

February is American Heart Month, so my students wrote two things they do to keep their heart healthy. They had so much fun creating their healthy heart characters!