What did the dinosaurs look like?

We worked in our journals today to create a picture of what we thought the dinosaurs might look like; many descriptive words were used like long neck, long tail, spikes, and claws. For the children that are ready we practiced writing what letter dinosaur starts with, or actually writing the word dinosaur or the names of the dinosaurs like T-Rex, or Spineasaurs. Such amazing writers!

Dinosaurs marching marching...

We are the dinosaurs

We have changed themes again! This time we will be exploring the world of dinosaurs. We will continue to learn about letters, explore birds (owls and turkeys) for our November nonfiction unit, and learning how to rhyme.
The dinosaur theme lends itself to lots of sorting by color and size, rote counting and numeral recognition, as well as practicing our fine motor skills of cutting out many different egg shapes. We will make another class book with the connection to Brown Bear but Dinosaur Dinosaur what do you hear-and they get to roar for the picture!

All sorts of sorts :)

We sorted by color today in two different ways. We sorted cars by different color, then skittles onto a train. Of course the best part is always getting to eat your way through math.

Transportation fun

All aboard the Octopus Train

All about spiders

We completed our first non fiction unit of study with a K and L chart (what we Know and Learned). I introduced the children to fiction and non fiction.
First we wrote down all the things we know about spiders, then I read them a short non fiction story. After that we checked what we knew to see if it was right and wrote down more things that were new that we learned. We will do this 1 time a month to experience non fiction books!

All about the Octopus train...

We have changed themes again! We are now on the move and talking about transportation. We will be learning about:
-color train (working on fine motor skills by cutting from new materials: magazines)
-6 nursery rhymes (row your boat, pat-a-cake, 1 2 buckle my shoe, itsy bitsy spider, humpty dumpty, and mary had a little lamb)
-3 more letters (H, T, K)
-traffic lights (sorry for all the back seat driving)
-spider non fiction study (we have learned 2 spider songs, an itsy bitsy spider game, and created webs already)
-sorting by size
-number guessing game (items hidden under number clouds to work on numeral recognition)
-Reading 2 stories by Mo Willems: Dont let the Pigeon drive the Bus, and Lets go for a Drive
-reading environmental print (for places to travel)