Five for…well...

I have a problem.  I am a procrastinator. 

So, without further ado (or procrastinating) here's what we've been up to.

This past week we learned all about frogs!  We had so much comparing frogs and toads. Living in FL, near lots of body of water, we have lots of frogs readily available to us. So… we went hunting for frogs one day! Of course, I did not have my phone on my to snag a shot of the kiddos but it was a BLAST.

The above two pictures are activities from Deanna's Frog Frenzy pack. 

The frog activity was changed a little.  In the pack she provides a template for writing about frogs, however, I wanted my kiddos to apply the life cycle in a fun way. :)  

Our monarch caterpillars from Insect Lore also arrived mid-week and we are all anxiously awaiting for them to form their pupa. We have been charting each day since they've arrived. Being able to show kiddos a life cycle in action is one of my favorite things! :)

I am so excited about my kiddos writing. More importantly their sentence structure!  We have been working daily in our Super Sentences Book to write sentences with proper sentence structure (capitals only at the beginning, spaces between our words, punctuation, and neat handwriting). My kids are doing so well and I am so excited to show our first grade teachers! 

The left picture is an example of a student who missed two key pieces of proper sentence structure (yes, that's Moby from BrainPop in his picture..love) and the right picture is an example of one of my 'super writers' as we are calling ourselves! :)

You can check out more on my packet and all of its contents by clicking the picture below.

So we just started our unit of study on 2D shapes this past week. I knew that the majority of my class already knew all their 2D shapes, so I wanted to make reviewing them a little more fun so I purchased Vickie's You Better Shape Up pack and I am so glad that I did!!! 

After identifying and sorting each shape, we created a 'shape man' as I have been calling them.  Look how stinkin cute they are:

His adorable little sign he is showing says:

I have 0 sides.

I have 0 vertices.

Next week we will be focusing on rectangles and triangles! Can't wait!

You can check out her pack below:

I know a lot of school who made their kindergarten classes give up 'fun centers' but thankfully we have not had to…yet.  

With that, I like to change my housekeeping area up throughout the year. I have a post office, doctor's office, vet office, and a pizzeria.

Here's a look at our pizzeria:

The kids absolutely love it!

You can check out more pictures of my center HERE.

Are you allowed to have 'fun centers' in your class?

I'll leave you with this:

lately and a freebie :)

We have been some busy little bees lately! It's crazy to think that there are only 36 more days left of school OR 6 more Mondays of school! :)  That is so exciting and nerve racking at the same time.  Still a lot to squeeze in!

We spent two weeks learning about plants and how to grow plants.  Here a few things we did:

 

Then, we got our lima beans and began our four-week seed observation.  Here are our "greenhouses" hanging in our windows!

Our bean seeds are days away from needing to be planted into our soil pots!  It's always a SUPER exciting time when we open up our papertowels to see our sprouted bean seeds! Every day is more exciting as our roots continue to grow!

In math we have been learning about 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes.  We first did the marshmellow and toothpick hands-on activity.  Of course we had a blast AND I forgot my camera! 

For the 2-D activity we created "Shape Creations!" For this we used 2-D die cut shapes.  We then used the shapes to create our own creations and then completed a corresponding recording sheet. 

Here's a few that we created:

And here's the recording sheet for FREE:

Shape Creation

 

The fun plant activities are just two from my Spring Fever unit.  You can find at my TPT Store along with my brand new Flat Stanley Unit!!!!!!! :)  

{heart} some Flat Stanley! 

Today is the start of a very super busy week! Phew! I'm tired thinking about it.  Hope you're week goes just as well!