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Bluebonnet Book Club Is Here!

 

      

Wow! I have the most amazing group of COLLOBRATORS in 3^rd-5^th Grade. We had a busy 3 days of Bluebonnet Discovery using blendspace.com & kahootit.com

Fall is in the Air & All Around Us

Today is the first day of Fall, however here in Texas we are still feeling the heat! The challenge: how do I help our KINDER Crowd experience fall using their senses? Create a smell associated with fall using spices and fruit.

Items needed:
orange & orange EO
cloves & cloves EO
cinnamon stick & cinnamon EO
cotton balls & diffuser & water

Using our 4 senses we discovered traits about oranges, cloves, and cinnamon sticks. We also discussed uses for each item. After our discussion we took the EO's and placed a couple of drops in the diffuser and learned how to waft the vapor.   *** word of caution: keep in mind students with asthma and  allergies ***

National Playdough Day

This week with KINDER we are working on sequencing a chain of events using transition words.
What better way to do this than celebrate National Playdough Day! We will be watching part of a how-to video, discussing what the lady did first, second, third, what happened next, etc. After our watching the video we will be placing the ingredients in order of when they were used. Once we have our supplies in order we will measure and mix and create our own playdough. To document our success we will create our own how-to video.

First Grade Dropout

Our school year is in full swing and we are holding on tight! I found this little gem and took a chance reading it to our First Graders as we talked about mistakes that we might make throughout the school year as a first grader and mistakes that we made when we were in kindergarten. What a HIT! We were on the floor laughing!

First Grade Dropout

by Audrey Vernick

Illustrated by Matthew Cordell

Aghhhh the dreaded Shelf Markers!

I have a <3 ;(  relationship with shelf markers.
The purpose of shelf markers is undeniable, however the little ones do not quite have the hand eye coordination to maneuver two things at once or fully understand the heartache we have when looking for a book that is not in the correct spot. 
For a fun, but point driven lesson, KINDER & First Grade played a fun game of Kahoot! focusing on the importance of using shelf markers.

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