Celebrating Uncle Ugbee's Unforgettable Un-Birthday!

Today was an UNFORGETTABLE day!  We have been learning letter Uu with Uncle Ugbee.

Uncle Ugbee is an unusual character from letter land.  He loves walking under his umbrella AND he is unaware of dressing for the weather.  So Uncle Ugbee wears some pretty unusual outfits!  Today we celebrated Uncle Ugbee's Unbirthday !  We also celebrated that we have learned all of the vowels of the alphabet.  We know that Uu has two sounds and that  every word must have at least one vowel.  We also had fun with the prefix UN-.   We learned that UN- in a word means the same thing as NOT!

 We had fun singing and walking like Uncle Ugbee under his umbrella!

We came to school in UNUSUAL outfits!

 There were people in pajamas!

 Ones in costumes!

 Friends with mismatched shoes!

And even some in their UNDERWEAR!

We loved trying three flavors of UN-POP and graphing our favorite.

             Strawberry Kiwi was a favorite!

Discussing flavors!

                                                   Not so sure about vegetable juice.

Graphing our favorite...which will it be?

100% Grape juice was our favorite!

Writing UNDER the table and UPSIDE down was great fun!

 

We ended our UNFORGETTABLE day with UPSIDE-DOWN UN-CAKE as we sang Happy UnBirthday to Uncle Ugbee!

We never knew learning letter Uu could be so fun!

We Learn About Plants!

We are anxiously awaiting our first sprouts to appear!  We are learning about plants this week.  So far we have learned that all plants come from seeds.  We were surprised to see how seeds are spread and how they   sometimes become a plant and sometimes not!  We learned plants need food, water, sun and air to survive.  Today we planted a bean seed and we are anxiously waiting for it to grow!  We must take good care of it.

First we had to make sure to get the right amount of soil.

 Our soil is ready for planting.

 Then we had to be sure we planted our seed.

 

And added just the right amount of water.

Next we placed it in our windowsill to get sunlight! 

 We will observe and record what is happening each day!

We can not wait to see when it will grow!

During reading time, we had fun pretending we were  insects as we moved to music to visit the flowers!

 There were bees, butterflies, and caterpillars!

 When the music stopped we had to read our  flower word to Mrs. Daily and then the music started all over again!

We are great insects, gardeners and READERS!

Our EGG-citing Egg Drop!

Chickens aren't the only ones!  Chickens aren't the only ones to lay eggs,that is!  We found that out this week as we studied OVIPAROUS creatures!  We were surprised to learn how many creatures lay eggs that develop and hatch. We now know that turtles,fish,all insects,all birds,alligators,snakes,lizards and even dinosaurs hatch from eggs!

To complete our study with lots of EGG-citement,we had an EGG-citing EGG DROP today!  As a family project, the children were asked to create a container for an egg that they felt could survive a "great fall"! We had many survivors and some that were not so fortunate.  But great EGG-citement was had by all!

We had containers made from BOXES,

                           ones made from PLASTIC,

BIG ones,

SMALL ones

                              PARACHUTED ones,

 
         PRETTY DECORATED ones,                          BAGGED ones,

  ones that were cylinder shaped,

CUBED shaped......

 and even an IMPOSTER!

Then it was time to see which contained SURVIVORS!

It was great fun to climb the tall ladder as well as watch the eggs DROP!

                                                       

We could not wait to find out what happened to our egg!

                                                     Great anticipation!

  Ms. Nixon even came and helped us out!

We were sure this one would be a survivor.............but it wasn't!

How fun!

OOPS!  Some survived but had not so good endings!

21 survivors from the group!

17 containers of non-survivors! If all eggs were survivors we would have no scrambled eggs!!

Survivors from Mrs. Daily's class

                       They ended up scrambled, but that's okay because we all had a great time experimenting! 

Thanks to all who helped make this learning experiment such an EGG-citing one!

We Learn to Subtract! (or Separate!)

 One important meaning of subtraction is separating.  Children separate a set of objects into two sets to answer questions about how many are left.  It is important for children to have many experiences to develop and use language like “how many are left” prior to symbolic work with the operations.  From these experiences, children will connect their use of the language to the operation of subtraction and its symbols, such as the subtraction sign.

Today we began our lesson with the book, Born To Be a Butterfly!  We then acted out "separating stories" using butterflies.

Five butterflies were fluttering in the breeze. Two flew away! How many were left?

Next, we had fun feeding our caterpillar as we told "separating stories" about a VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR!

First we count the correct amount of food to begin our story!

                             Then we feed our caterpillar!

And we count what is left!

   "HANDS-ON" MATH IS SO MUCH FUN!