Author Archives: Ms Kristin

fifteen people, fifteen dice, eight rounds and here are the results of “roll your dice and tell how many dots are on the side facing up”…  we truly were surprised by the results. 

during work time it was discovered by a friend that one of our plastic elephants made a rattling sound when shaken. and it was determined that it had never done that before. he got the magnifying class to find a clue.  then another friend got interested and the hypothesizing ensued. some potential answers: the idea of termitesContinue reading “n is for noise {from a toy elephant and the quest to solve the mystery that followed}”

memories from 2008 and on: :: :: :: :: rich indeed.we had signs to carryinvestigating to dosongs to learn (thank you jen and abby!)dreams to tellmessages to sharewhat a blur of memories we all hold :: :: :: :: yes!  this wasn’t in my lesson plans, but it made a way for dr. king to enterContinue reading “m is for martin luther king jr memories”

throughout the week we worked on big mama turkey and our own baby turkeys to take home. big mama was an old piece of paper saved from a year ago and filled with excess paper (our hands and arms got a work out from crumpling the paper): and when she was complete, she was aContinue reading “t is for thanksgiving “

we did some talk about alligators vs crocodiles. we measured out the length of real alligators with tape in the floor. we sang songs about alligators. we mixed blue and yellow to make green. we arranged stuffed alligators by size. we saw two real alligator heads at show and tell. and then we made alligatorContinue reading “a is for alligator”