Western Week

This week was Western Week in the classroom! Our room was full of cowboys and cowgirls learning all about the Wild West! We made vests out of paper bags, we made a cowboy glyph, our very own western book, and we even brought the Tulsa State Fair to our classroom.  Each child made an exhibit and it was judged by an official state fair judge, the best news was that each child walked away with a blue ribbon!

Apples, apples, and more apples!

Another great week in our classroom! This week we were studying APPLES! We were able to taste, smell, pick, create art and math all with apples!



The children peeled apples.

And we made an apple pie!

In Dramatic Play we made our very own apple tree!

Writing with apples!

Adding with apples!

We made an apple book!

We went to the apple orchard and picked our very own apples!

We ate a yummy apple pie!

Apple weaving!

Nursery Rhymes

One of our favorite units of studies, and the students agree, is our Nursery Rhyme Unit. Did you know that research has shown if a child memorizes Nursery Rhymes in their early childhood years, that it will increase their reading abilities in later years? We have lots of fun making our Nursery Rhyme books, doing our Nursery Rhyme art, and yes even conducting Nursery Rhyme Science experiments.

Our egg in a a bottle experiment. This is were you take a glass bottle with an opening too small for the egg to fit, light a match and drop it to the bottom of the glass jar, then place the hard-boiled egg on top and watch it magically drop through the opening.

A candle needs oxygen to burn! We show the students what happens when we put a glass jar over a candle.

In math we measure items in the classroom with dog bones! We teach estimation through this activity  too!