The Things we do in the Classroom!



 

 The Busy Bee's still working on one to one counting.  This is a simple activity of writing numbers on a laminated sheet of paper and giving them what ever item you want them to count.  This is an awesome small group activity or activity for independent work.  Way to go Bees!

Writing the classroom.  There are words all around the classroom.  The children grab a clipboard, pencil and paper and the writing and learning is endless.  I'm so proud of this independent teamwork that is taking place in this photo...

Appreciation of books and beginning reading.  Another proud teacher moment.  Anytime you see a student willingly grab a book and spend independent time reading you can't help but SMILE!!

 

Who doesn't like taking things apart?  The Busy Bee's worked hard to take apart this old radio discussing what they have discovered.  Awesome activity and I can't wait to find the next item for the Busy Bee's to take apart....

 

Another one to one counting activity.  The cupcake pan has a number in each slot.  After recognizing the number the Busy Bee's have to put that many pom poms in the slot....Did I mention we are working fine motor as well as the place th pom poms using tweezers.

Upper / Lower Cas match.  This activity is fun and can be used as an assessment tool as well.  The Busy Bee's is giving the notebook with upper case letters.  They are encouraged to put the lower case letter into the sleeve with the upper case letter.  (Baseball collectors sleeves work amazing for this activity.)

I got this activity from PreKinders.com  The snowmen have a letter and pictures.  Working with beginning letter sounds the Busy Bees cross out the photos of the pictures that have that beginning letter sound.  Way To Go!!

 

There's still some learning in the Hive!!

The buzz in in celebration to the New Year and all the new things that are taking place within the Hive.  The Busy Bee's have been busy learning about a great variety of events within the hive.  We started our studies with the silly Gingerbread man, who believe it or not got loose in our school.  We went on a hunt and to our luck he left a note telling us where he was hiding and gave us permission to eat him up (YUMMY!!)  We read awesome books doing a comparison unit about "The Gingerbread Man," "The Gingerbread Boy," "The Gingerbread Girl," and for fun we discovered what made "The Gingerbread Girl go Animal Crackers."

 

As the Gingerbread Girl was going Animal Crackers the Busy Bee's begin talking about the cold weather and the two hour delays that were taking place due to inclement weather.  We then started our lesson on Winter. 

The children were digging through the snow to find their lost mittens.

(the snow is popcorn packing)

One to One counting snowmen activity.  The number is on the snowmen hat and the children had to add that many buttons to their snowman.  Great activity!!  Put the snowmen in a row and it becomes a great small group activity!

Putting mittens into numerical sequence.  Each mitten has a number and dot to match the number.  The groups worked on recognizing the number and putting it into the correct place.  Each group work on a different amount of numbers but the learning was truly endless.

ABC penguins.  The Busy Bees worked hard to put the daddy penguins in ABC order then helped them find their babies.  The babies (not pictured) were the penguin eggs with the lower case letter.  This group is rocking this activity....look carefully the letters are in order just a little backwards.

and of course you can't have a winter theme without discovering ICE...the Busy Bee's even got involved with the ice by adding it to water and talking about how they feel, what happens and how the ice feels.