The Book Fair is Coming!!!!

The Book Fair is coming to AEEC soon!  Please visit this website to learn more!!!

http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/aeec

Our Class Valentine Party

Our Class Valentine Celebration was so much fun!  The kids loved passing out their cards and really loved getting cards from their friends.  Love was in the air!

Personalize your own greeting card

Our Sweetheart Graphs

With Valentine's day coming up, we decided to explore the different colors of hearts that come in a pack of Sweethearts.  After opening two packs of Sweethearts, the children constructed a graph and recorded their findings.  They used the information from their graphs to determine which color hearts they had the most of and which color they had the least.  When the graphs were completed, we put our Sweetheart Graphs in our Math Journals.

 Brayden and Elizabeth are working on their graph.

Collin working on his graph.

Double War!

Double War has quickly become a new class favorite!

Double War started out as a work job during center time and quickly became a favorite game at the math center.  It is a spin-off of the traditional game of war but with a challenging twist.  Thanks to games like Double War, the children love coming to the math center.  While playing this game, the children are adding and comparing numbers.  Who knew that math could be so much fun!

The fun with Double War doesn't have to stop when center time is over.  Here is how you can play Double War at home with your child.

Materials needed:

2 decks of regular playing cards (Ace - 6)

*The Ace will be the number 1*

How to Play:

Mix up the cards and deal them all out face down. 

Each player turns over two cards and adds them together.

The player with the highest sum wins all of the cards for that turn.

If the sum of both players is the same, a war occurs.  To settle the war, you each turn over two more cards and add them together.  The player with the highest sum wins all of the cards that have been played in that turn.

The game is over when the players run out of cards!



Congratulations

We have 3 friends who have read their 100 books for Count On Reading! 



Getting Ready for Tailgate Day!

Tomorrow is Tailgate Day at AEEC and we have been very busy getting ready for this big day!  For the first time ever, we decided to show our team spirit by tie-dying t-shirts.  They turned out GREAT!!  I can't wait to take a class picture with everyone wearing their shirts tomorrow!





New Suggested Parent Reading Article

From time to time, I come across something that I feel is informative and important for parents to read.  The following article was sent to me and it talks about the importance of play in the kindergarten classroom.  We are very fortunate at AEEC that our curriculum is play oriented, child-centered and developmentally appropriate.  Unfortunately, this is not the case in many kindergarten classrooms in the United States.  Not only does this article discuss the benefits of play but it also validates many of the things that we do here at AEEC!

http://www.artofeducation.net/2011/10/crisis-in-kindergarten.html
crisis in K