Snowman Estimation

We made some little snowmen last week...

...and then glued some cotton balls onto the bodies.  We made sure no one saw how many cotton balls we took.  We wrote the number of cotton balls inside our snowman's hat.

We took turns asking each other to estimate how many snowballs were on our snowman.  We opened the hat to show the correct number.   

After we were done with the activity we were able to decorate our classroom with the snowmen.

Safari

During letter Z,z week we studied zoo animals, their habitats, and what they eat.  We went on a "safari" hunting for some of the animals we had studied about.  We used our binoculars to find the animals and then graphed the animals we found. 

(I apologize for the pictures.  I forgot my camera and had to use my phone.  It didn't do so well with the fast movement of the kids:) ) 

Graphing 

Rhinos! 

"I think I see something!" 

The kids had a great time!  It was a fun way to incorporate math into science.

Money Money!

We have been working on counting money.  The other day I labeled some items that we have in the classroom and the kids counted out the correct change to "buy" an item.  They did an amazing job! 

Letter U,u Cooking Centers

For letter U,u we made United States Flags for snack. 

Spreading the frosting 

Drawing the square in the corner of the flag 

Adding the stars 

Adding the stripes

Enjoying!

Blue mouths

We also painted paper towel tubes to make binoculars



Penny, Nickel, Dime

To help us tell the difference between pennies, nickels and dimes we headed down to the gym for a little game.  The kids were put into partners and one partner was given a bag of different coins.  A coin was taken out and the first child said the name.  The second child told how much the coin was worth and took that many steps.  Once the second child reached the finish line (we used some of the lines on the gym floor) the partners swiched places and played again. 

Reward!

We filled our jar of beads again!! 

This happened right before Christmas so we watched Rudolf and had popcorn and strawberry soda.