Valentine's, President's & A winner!

This week we started our Valentine's Day fun. The kids enjoyed reading the book in Deanna's unit and making up their own sentences:

They also really liked playing "Bee the Word" I put all the cards in a sentence together in a mailbox and called groups to come up and take out the cards.

Each kid in the group got a card and they worked together to get in the right order. A few groups needed hints (the period goes at the end... the capital goes at the front) but most of them did great!

I plan to put the mailboxes into a center next week along with a little recording sheet I made where they can write the sentences in order.

I also taught them how to make a heart this week and we did an interactive writing piece to go with it. I had planned on letting them keep their hearts but they really wanted me to hang them up, so we decorated around our writing with their hearts.

We read Froggy's First Kiss about halfway and then the kids made predictions on whether or not Froggy would kiss Frogilina. They graphed their classmates predictions and then we finished the story and wrote what really happened. During math they graphed their favorite character.

We also started learning about Abraham Lincoln this week (We'll do Washington next week). We of course had to start the week talking about Presidents and what they do.

We started writing President's Day books, I will post pics of those next week when they are done.

Dd was one of our letters this week so on Friday we sorted and graphed DOTS!

Here are our Centers from this week, most are in my Love Struck Packet.

sorting middle sounds

and recording them

Dollar Tree Heart boxes filled with CVC words worksheet from Cara Carroll I've added an in depth post about these boxes HERE. 

sounding out CVC Words

Digraph match up (From Deanna)

Valentine Listening Center

Valentine Pocket Chart Story

non standard measurement

Teen Number Words

numbers 1-12 match (I won this from Doodle Bugs Teaching!)

Probability (from Deanna)

Dice Roll and Color

Patterning Practice

Roll and Graph

Next week we are going to continue our Valentine's Fun, Have a Valentine's Party, Learn about George Washington, and Start our Zoo Unit (in preparation for our field trip to the zoo)! Here's a sneak peak at some of my Zoo Centers ready to go:

rhyming

counting by 10s

beginning and ending sounds

Spinners for beginning sounds and teen numbers

AND Today is my birthday!!! My husband and I went to lunch downtown and now we're off to see the Vow. But not before I announce my winner! The winner of my Birthday giveaway is.......

Have a great week everyone!!!!

Some Books We loved: