Transportation.....how do you get from here to there?

Check out our name trains that we made this week! This is just one of the many ways that we talked about how we can get from here to there. 

We also talked about hot air balloons! And, we did a little science experiment where we watched our balloon fill up using baking soda and vinegar.

And, a lot of transportation vehicles need keys to get moving, so we used our pattern strips to fill our key rings with plenty of keys!

When we go from here to there, we have to follow some safety rules so that nobody gets hurt. We discussed some of the safety signs and what they mean, and some rules that we follow when we are riding our bikes, scooters, and cars. This center showed us ways to do things safely, and also ways that are not very safe. We put these pictures in their correct safe, or not safe, column.

Your children raced to our math center this week! And, once they got the right race car drivers into their cars, which we did by matching the number on his race shirt to the number on his car, the race was on! We also put them in chronological number order just like Boston is doing below.

Our writing center was no road block for us! We practiced writing our names and letters on the open roads, and used our car erasers to erase the board and give us the 'green light' to start again.

We had some fun racing marbles down the track.  

And, we counted out our blocks so that we could make sure that each truck had enough cargo in tow. 

We also talked about letter P this week. And, we had this parking lot for each of our uppercase alphabet cars to park in their lowercase counterpart parking spots. 

We also talked about how boats can float even though they are really big and heavy. We talked about how different materials can sink or float, and how it also depends on how they are built, just like a boat. We had some different materials at the water table that the kids had fun guessing and testing whether they would sink or float.

We also talked about how wheels on a car or a bike roll because they are round, without any edges or points. We talked about what other types of objects might roll, and then tested them out on our ramp below.

and, last but not least, we celebrated a birthday this week! 

A big shout out to our friend Liam.....

Happy Birthday Liam!

Halloween

Sorry I have been slacking with the blog!! I am going to try to catch up today so hope you are ready to see what we have been up to the last few weeks!! We are working hard on journals in school each day! Below you can see Maci hard at work forming those letters! 

We talked about the letter M the week of Halloween. We practiced making our letter M with these letter M, monsters! 

Something else that starts with the "mmm" sound is a mummy! We made these cute paper mummies that were quite suiting for our Halloween theme.

We also had our "monster" out to munch our letters. Cookie Monster was hungry! So, the kids made plenty of playdough letters with our molds and fed him until his belly was full!

One of our math centers this week was our spiderweb counting! Each spiderweb had a number at the top of the page, and we added that many spiders to the web!

We played a game called, "Go Away, Monster". Each player had a board that had some pieces missing. They had to reach into a bag to try to retrieve their missing pieces without snagging a monster! If they did get a monster, they had to trap it and say, "Go away monster!"

And, of course, we celebrated Halloween with costumes, candy, and games!!

Pin the spider on the web.

Bean bag toss and ghost target practice.

Hit the cans!

and, last but not least, treats!!

I was able to get a few candid shots of some of your cuties!