Workshop Rundown: 4/8

Once, there was a little seed. It grew and grew and became a big sunflower. Then, it began to wilt and dropped its seeds. Once again, there was a little seed...

We are learning about seeds and the cycle of seeds.  After reading Eric Carle's The Tiny Seed, the kids worked together to create a collage and write about a part of the sunflower seed cycle.

Writing together required a lot of concentration and thought.

The story is outside in the hallway.  We'll tell it to you soon.

Everyone made a "Smart Flower" to display on the SK bulletin board.  We've learned a lot this year!

Right outside our classroom, we can see the cherry and dogwood trees in bloom - so beautiful!  Everyone had fun making flowering trees with tissue paper.  I have fond memories using the eraser end of a pencil to create flowers with little squares of tissue paper and love to share this technique with the kids.

We are now working on the I Word Family.  The challenge was thinking of an additional real word for each Word Family.  Be sure to read this book with your child.

This week, we focused on the "CH" digraph with chewy chocolate chip cookies!  Yum!  After flipping over a paper cookie, the kids said the picture on the cookie and decided if the CH was at the beginning or end of the word.  Then, they wrote the word.  Everyone did a great job hearing and writing the CH sound.

Bonus - as they worked, they got to munch on some chewy chocolate chip cookies!