Mars Needs Moms

This weekend is Mothers Day. I am so excited to spend the special day with my little one. She is now 4 months and so beautiful and healthy.

In honor of Mother's Day today we read the book Mars Needs Moms. I personally LOVED the book. It was too funny, and just plain cute. I will have to admit that I did get emotional during the story today, as a new mom.

Everyone did an amazing job on their writing. I think it is because we were writing about our favorite person, our Mom's. I only uploaded a few of them close up to see how precious they were when we wrote about how special our mom's are to us. I also included a recent picture of my little bundle of job, baby Kennedy. This is while we were visiting her Dad at his fire station.

Zoo Field Trip

This past Tuesday we our annual field trip to the Fort Worth Zoo. Thankfully the weather was beautiful because May has not been a warm month so far. We all had the BEST time!! A special thank you goes out to all my parent volunteers. They were so kind to provide us with their time. It truly was a fun day for all! I have a class picture from when we were boarding the bus. The other is what we did today in response to our trip to the Zoo. They were very excited to paint their favorite zoo animals.

Dallas Zoo Friends

Last week we were honored with a visit from some special friends. The Dallas Zoo presented us with some of their furry (and scaly) friends at the Zoo. We saw an owl, alligator, parrot, snake, a penguin, and even a slot. The 2-toed sloth was my personal favorite. Did you know they spend most of their lives upside down? They even give birth in that position!! WOW.

Welcome Baby Kennedy

As you may already know I was expecting my first child the beginning of the year this year. Baby Kennedy was due on January 9 but decided to make a week early appearance on January 2. She arrived at 7:20am at 8lbs 3ounces and 21 inches long. We are so blessed!

Everyone is healthy and doing well. I plan on returning on March 18.

Estimation Stations

We studied Estimation in math. All our little friends now know that estimation means a smart math guess. Everyone had a small cup, and filled it with a separate item (unifix cubes, counting bears, pom-poms). After we filled it we estimated how many items were in their cup. It was a great time. Everyone enjoyed guessing and filling the cup back up over and over again. It even became a game for some.

Kwanzaa

In addition to learning about Christmas we are also focusing on learning about how different cultures celebrate during the holidays in December. Last week we learned about Kwanzaa. Here is a picture of our kinara.

Gingerbread Men Math Fun

Today in class during math time we created a Gingerbread Man Glyph. Each part of the glyph is specific to each child. They were asked 3 simple questions, and had to answer each one. To change things up a bit we painted each part of the glyph onto our own gingerbread man. My class was AWESOME!! Everyone shared, and waited paitently for their turn to use the paint.
Here are the parts of the glyph: If they were a boy they had a blue nose, a girl a pink nose. The buttons represented thier age (either 5 or 6), and the stripes represented if they liked or disliked gingerbread. If they liked it they had red striped, if they did not they had green striped. After we created our glpyh we constructed a real object graph.