Oreo Penguins

This post is a little late, but the activity was so much fun that we had to share it with you.  The Pre-First girls have been learning so much about penguins and they are in the midst of writing their own non-fiction book about the amazing animal.  For our "Fun Friday" activity last week, we talked about all of the facts we have learned about penguins.  Then we sent the girls back to their desks to create an Oreo penguin.

After the girls made their Oreo penguins, the girls had to design a scene using the the app Educreations on their iPads.  They then took a picture of their Oreo penguins and inserted it into their scene.

The final step was to type a factual sentence about penguins and voice record it onto their scene.

The girls had a blast with this activity and have truly loved learning about penguins!  Stay tuned for their non-fiction books!!!

Colors of Us

Peanut butter, honey and pizza crust.  What do these three foods have in common?  They are all unique ways of describing a person's skin color.  We have started our new unit in social studies called Celebrating Differences.  Today we read the book The Colors Of Us ,which is a wonderful story of a little girl whose mother teaches her that everyone is different, but in a special way.  We discussed how each person is different and how the world would be incredibly boring if everyone were the same.  The girls came up with their own way to describe their skin color--inside of a bagel, a muffin and syrup are just to name a few.  We then taught the girls how to mix paints to create these colors.  Below are some pictures of your daughters mixing paints to create these special colors.

Welcome back!

Happy 2013!!!  We missed your daughters tremendously over the winter break and hope that everyone had a safe and relaxing 2 weeks off.  The girls were a chatty bunch today and could not contain their excitement over seeing each other once again.  We loved hearing about their time off and the adventures that they had while they were gone.  We decided to start our day with a fabulous winter tale, The Smiley Snowman, and the girls created their own winter snowman (using marshmallows) after we read the story.  To end our day, we had a very special Mystery Reader--Mrs. Nothstein!