Grandparent's Day

We celebrated Grandparent's Day Thursday.  We had a great turn out for this special day.  I think the kids and grandparents enjoyed visiting with each other.  Thanks to all who were able to come!  

Monster Mash

Friday we held a Monster Mash in the music room.  I think it was my favorite day of the year so far!  We had a ball.  We have been learning all about the letter Mm this week, so this was the perfect way to end the week.  We played monster games and ate monster brains, eyes, tongues, hair, ears, etc., and drank monster slime.  The games we played were, Pin the Eye on the Cyclops, Monster Eye spoon race, and Godzilla Stomp.  Godzilla Stomp was definitely the favorite.  You play it kind of like musical chairs.  We had huge feet that they had to race to get on when the music stopped.  We took away a foot each round and if you didn't find a foot you had to sit.  The kids caught on quickly and had so much fun!  Hope you enjoy these precious pics.  Oh, and check out the food that a sweet room mom from Mrs. Mayas' class made for us.  

he's trying hard to find it

she got it

will he get it?

wrong monster silly...hehe

ready for the monster eye spoon race

boys are ready too

Dancing to the Monster Mash song waiting for the music to end to find a foot

Found a foot

look at those monster moves

The winners!  Yay!

What a FUN, FUN day!

Name Cheers!

Yay!  We know all the letters in our names...and that is really something to CHEER about!  We have been working very hard for 5 weeks to learn all the letters in our name.  We had to be able to say the letters in our name in order and mixed up.  I got this GREAT idea of doing name cheers from a teacher friend of mine, Mrs. Estes.  Each student held the megaphone and said, "Give me a J O N A T H A N, what's that spell?   Jonathan, one more time, Jonathan!  We also passed around a shaker and cheered for our classmate!  This was so much fun!

Monster Fun and Chrysanthemum

This week our theme was Monsters which went perfectly along with our focus letter which was "Mm".  We read lots of fun stories including, There's a Monster Under my Bed and Glad Monster, Sad Monster. We made monster Glyphs (below) and monster headbands to wear to our Monster Mash.  This is a fun unit in which we incorporated feelings and worries.  We ended the week with a bang by having a Monster Mash.  Pics to come later from it.  Oh, and Friday, we watched a short video of Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes...and she visited our classroom!  See pic below.