Thanksgiving Feast  2015-16

Look at all our sweet Pilgrims and Native Americans.  We have enjoyed working together as a class to learn all about the very first Thanksgiving so many years ago.  The children made their own Native American headbands, necklaces and shirts to wear for our classroom feast.  Here are a few pictures of our classroom celebration along with the many things we are thankful for!!!!

 

We are 

Thankful 

for........

my brother Hayden,

my sister,

friends.....

my toys,

my house,

God,

 food,

Mrs. Webb,

ME...... 

my Dad,

my room,

my cats

my family,

my Mom!!

 HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!

We have had an exciting week learning all about fire safety.  The children learned a lot about firefighters this week.  We made firefighters in centers, learned all about how to be safe in a fire and when we should call 9-1-1.  During snack on Friday we made a firetruck that was delicious!

Our favorite part of the day was when we got a visit from our community firefighters.  They talked to us about what to do if there were a fire at our house.

Firefighter Thomas talked to us about his gear.  He showed us what he would look like if he came to our home or school to help us during a fire.  He put on his fire boots and pants first.

 Then he put on his fire jacket.

We learned that firefighters have to put on a mask just like we do when we dress up for Halloween. 

He has a tank on his back with clean air. The mask allows him to breathe the clean air from his tank in a fire.  

 Last Firefighter Thomas put on his helmet to protect his head. We learned that we do not need to be afraid of a firefighter when he is dressed in his firefighting gear.

The best part of all was when Sparky showed up!!

Last we got to walk around and through the firetruck.  We saw lots of air tanks, walkie talkies, headphones, axes, water hoses and lots, lots more!!

 Thank You MFD #3 and Sparky!!!!

We have enjoyed exploring with our pattern block shapes 

during center time.  We work puzzles with our shapes and then have 

free exploration to create our own designs.  

Take a look at a few of our creations.

tree 

 fish, sun, rocket, squid and a pirate

During math this week we learned about our geo-boards and geo-bands.  We use them to make different shapes.  We made triangles, squares, circles, rhombi, hexagons  and rectangles.

Apples, apples and more apples!!  We learned about how apples grow, what we can make with apples, learned an apple poem and enjoyed reading lots of books about apples.

The children got to see what an apple tree looks like throughout the year during the different seasons.

During the winter the tree is bare, in spring it starts to grow new leaves and buds begin to grow, in the summer the tree is full of green leaves and apples begin to grow and during the fall the apples are ripe and ready to be picked!!

We had a yummy apple tasting party to see which apple was our favorite!  

 We tasted Red Delicious apples....

 Yellow Delicious apples.......

 and Granny Smith apples. 

We were curious about why the green apples were called Granny Smith.  We found out that they are named for a lady named Granny Smith.  She was the first to find this apple sprouting by a creek on her land.

After tasting our apples we graphed our favorite.  

The class like Red Delicious the BEST!!!