This week was full of celebrations! We are of course beginning to celebrate Thanksgiving and learning about thankfulness. We also celebrated and honored our Veterans, and just for fun we threw in GLOW day!
We learned about what a Veteran is, and made cards for the school to put in care packages for our community Veterans. We also had fun learning about our flag and making a HUGE flag to say "thank you" to our Veterans virtually, since the annual Veteran's Day Assembly had to be cancelled.
We had fun making turkeys, and the kids thought of so many wonderful things that they were thankful for! We are going turkey crazy... singing about turkeys, coloring turkeys, doing turkey math, and reading about turkeys!
We are thankful for our new aide, Jocelyn, who experienced sledding for the first time this week with the kids! :)
We are continuing to explore the wonderful things our bodies can do, and answering the kinder scientists' questions, such as "How can I move my feet?" and "Why does my heart beat fast when I run?" This week we learned about our muscles, what they look like, how they connect to our bones, and how to keep them strong! We did some exercising and yoga in class!
We also learned about our brains, and our nervous system, and how nerves relay messages from our brains to our bodies, and back! We demonstrated this by playing "telephone" with one kid being the brain, and the kid at the end of the line being the body part that had to do what the brain told it to do! It was pretty funny!
We also learned about a very important involuntary muscle, our hearts! We drew what a real heart looks like, did an experiment about our heart rates, and made model hearts!
OK, I saved the best for last. We had the most fun Book Buddies possibly ever. GLOW DAY! Ms. Bonnie the third grade teacher had this wonderful idea, and we have been planning it ever since the beginning of school when we decided to do Book Buddies together this year. So we decided to turn our room into black light GLOW rooms! We had some reading time thanks to Ms. Nicole Wells, who pulled a ton of books about stars and moons and space for us and brought them to our room. Then we played various glow games like twister, spelling ping pong, tic tac to, and glow Jenga! Then we did coloring pages and mazes with highlighters, and then used Oreos to create edible phases of the moon!
After Book Buddies we did Glow Math and Glow Reading and lots of other fun glow activities all day long! Just watching the kids come in in the morning made it ALL worthwhile. It was the BEST!
Here are some more pictures!
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