Hickory Dickory Dock

Shared Reading:

We discovered the parts of a clock and drew our own clock.

We wrote our numbers all the way to 12 and learned about the hour hand.

 We finally finished our illustrations in our nursery rhyme book!
Now it's time to sit down and read them!!

 This was a fun activity to act out the nursery rhyme. We drew in the numbers of the clock and added an hour hand. When the clock strikes one, we make our mouse run down with the pull string from the back! 

Colors:

"Little Mouse, Little Mouse

Which color is your house?"

--Finding the mouse-- 

Nursery Rhyme Time!

Since we started the month out by celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday, I find it most appropriate to continue throughout the month learning rhymes!

To start out, we learned Jack and Jill!

We learned the words, and found the rhymes....

Then did some shared reading!

I love shared reading! It helps with SOOOO many prereading skills!!! 

Including one to one correspondence, sight words, fluency, return sweep, etc. 

Love it.

We then talked about sequencing....

1st, 2nd, 3rd

This not only helps with reading comprehension, it also helps with numbers!

What happened 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the story?

Lets ILLUSTRATE!!

 We started illustrating a nursery rhyme book.

Circle the rhymes ... and illustrate!

Draw it carefully, colorful, and detailed!

More oPpOsItEs!

What a BUSY day!!

We started off with discussing opposites in the world around us and we realized that everything has an opposite! Including WEATHER and SEASONS!

These girls are showing us what is appropriate to wear during some of those opposite seasons: 

We then illustrated opposite seasons:

We made sure our illustrations were CAREFUL, COLORFUL, and DETAILED today! What great illustrators they have become!

 We have been celebrating opposites with show and tell:

Here are a few of them:

Girl and Boy

Left and Right: 

This book was full of opposites: 

We had a few Big and Little opposites: 

 Ha! We even had opposite baseball teams!

Here was a fun one:

Can you guess the opposites here? 

  SLOW and FAST (so glad Dribble could come demonstrate that for us!!)

We discovered that Dr. Seuss has a whole bunch of fun books with OPPOSITES in them!

Now for some hands on fun!!

OOBLECK is such a fun way to demonstrate opposites! 

Mix a little cornstarch with water and not only are the ingredients opposites, but the texture and feel of the final product are opposites! 

Move the oobleck FAST and it becomes a SOLID.....

 ....Move the oobleck SLOWLY and it becomes a LIQUID!!

What a FUN week we've had exploring opposites!!

Christmas Party!!

All I want for Christmas...... 

We used shared writing to help us write what we wanted for Christmas. Then we cut apart the sentences and figured out how to put them back together!

 Then we illustrated them!!

 Reindeer Games!

Santa Math!

Check out that beard!! 

 Gingerbread Houses! 

What FUN we had at our Christmas party!! 

Merry Christmas Everyone!!