Our Oak Tree...The Roots

We really are turning our classroom into "My Big Backyard"!  This week, we started building an oak tree.  We divided the work according to the parts of the tree.  During Center Time, the children came up and signed up for the part of the tree that they wanted to work on. 
  

The root group went first.  Our research told us that oak trees have very large root systems.  We are going to be making a lot of roots!

Ticket to Read Award

Mrs. Shiver came in today to announce that Alex is a top 100 Gold Star Reader in our state.  On the Ticket to Read website, Alex ranks 14th in the state!  Way to go Alex!

January's 100 Book Club Awards

Look who's been reading this month!

Cathy read 25 books and earned her bookmark!

She also read 50 books and earned her pencil!

Look at these friends!  They read 100 books!  Welcome to the 100 Book Club Will, Omauri and Chloe!

100th Day of School

We had a great time celebrating the 100th Day of School!

Will and Malik's shirts say it all!

We started the day with a special snack that had 100 things in it!

Next, we made necklaces with 100 Fruit Loops on it.

Finally, we made self-portraits of our 100 year old selves.

  

Snowman Glyphs

Well, we had two days of winter weather last week and that was all we needed to kick off our interest in winter and snow! Take a peak at the snowman glyphs we made during center time!

  Here is our glyph key.