Love is...

Welcome to Wednesday!

 

With the addition of a cash register to our classroom, we once again had a store running during our free choice centers. You could get a pencil for $60, an eraser for $80, and a crystal pyramid for $46 dollars. There were also a lot of tools for sale, but I don't recall the price of those. :) The store did close at one point, though:

 

During math, we had a launch lesson for our shape and space unit. We viewed pictures of the story Goldilocks and the 3 bears and discussed the sizes of everything in the pictures. Then, we watched a video version of the story. We had 8 students today so it was perfect to break them into 2 groups (1 Goldilocks, 1 mama bear, 1 papa bear, and 1 baby bear in each). They took turns acting out the story for one another.

 

 

The speech and language pathologist was in today and taught our class about the four zones of regulation. The green zone is optimal for learning. The blue zone is when we are tired or sick. The yellow zone is when we are a bit too hyper or frustrated. The red zone is when we are very angry or extremely hyper.  The zones are used throughout the grades in our school as a check-in for students to realize where they are at and how they can get themselves back to a 'just right' space for learning.

 

 

Students also went to the library. When we had our learning center groups, 2 students were on the computer working with the Starfall website, 2 were in the building area, and 3 were in the art center.

 

They made an ice shack- tv included!

An artist at work.

 

We also had a discussion about what love is and discussed some examples. Then students each coloured their page and shared what they feel love is. So sweet!

 

We ended the day with some races and a game called Hungry Hungry Hippos in gym, where students race to bring bean bags back to their 'hippo home' (a hula hoop).

 

One more day of K this week!