This year, as a special gesture of friendship, the classes at the ELC decided to bake each other valentines cookies.  The Whales decided to bake sugar cookies for the preschool Dolphins’ class. On Thursday Ms. Stephanie came in to help us the bake the sugar cookies. We have become very skilled bakers since our bread unit.  We are able to read recipes, measure out ingredients, and work together to create yummy treats. Our bakers are learning the difference between tablespoons, teaspoons, and cups.  We are also learning to compare fractions (for instance two half cups equals a whole cup). 

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Today was a whirlwind of learning and fun.  This morning we got our school photos taken and we spent the day working on special projects for our friendship celebration on Friday. We worked hard at writing special messages for our friends and decorating cards for our friends. During Writers’ Workshop we discussed what it means to write from other perspectives. Several of us wrote stories from the perspective of animals today. 

This morning we had music with Ms. Shelley. We got to use the egg shakers and we sang Are You Sleeping in different languages. We also sang in “teams” doing a call and response activity.

Our buddies visited us today! We spent time reading with big buddies. Then our buddies helped us paint murals of different animal habitats.

This afternoon Joaquin showed us his tap shoes. We can’t wait to see him do a tap performance for us sometime!

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This morning we began discussing ways in which animals deal with the harsh winter weather. Today we discussed animals that migrate south in the winter. We read a story about migration and watched a video about butterflies migrating. Then we played a migration game. Mr. Danny called out a season and the “birds” in the room would migrate north or south depending on the season.

All last week we worked very hard to turn our stories into published pieces.  Today we celebrated at our Authors’ Celebration. We started the celebration with our Authors’ Circle where each author read a favorite page of their story to the group.  Then we split off into pairs to read our whole story to each other.  We switched partners several times so we got to hear several stories and share our own story with several friends. Then we met in our classroom library where we applauded as each author added his/her book to our classroom library. We ended the celebration with a special toast. We are authors!

This afternoon we began making valentines for our friends. We used markers, glitter, and paint to create special cards and messages.

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