Ellen

Co-owner of Soul Sisters Designs & Boutique

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Rainbow snacks

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Shamrock pie

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Happy 100th Day of School. Our theme: Under Construction 100 Days!

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We became groundhog meteorologists today and made weather predictions for Groundhog’s day. As you can see we are split as whether or not the groundhog will see his shadow!

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We walked over to our “Kindergarten” tree and made winter observations in our Tree Journal ! #littlescientists #observations

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Today we finished up writing in our “All About Bears” books! We had fun pretending to be bears in our dens today!!

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We start every morning out with a quick exercise moment to get our wiggles out and start our learning for the day. They really love the “would you rather “ videos!

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Today we taught our stuffed animal friends all the things we have been learning about our “snap words” and phonics ! #becomingreaders #funfriday #learningisfun

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Today we played card wars with our special cards decks with pictures and numbers to 13 . This helps us recognize more and less, number recognition and subitizing objects!

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How we get our day started … a little movement and dancing. Currently they are obsessed with any thing halloween related . So today it was Monster Dance .

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The kids loved their new Clifford safety books from Officer Ochs and Safe Kids St Louis!

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Officer Ochs came to our room today to read “Clifford Takes A Walk” to review safety rules for walking to places. And Safe kids St Louis donated a book for every child to keep !

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Farm day room transformation to celebrate the end of our alphabet boot camp . We had 6 stations and at the end they earned a pink piggy !

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These 2 amazing ladies got to spin the House Wheel because they are using our essential 10 !

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Today we filed our love jars with 10 things we love and then shared them with friends to help us learn about each other . This also helped our cutting and fine motor skills.

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Happy first day of kindergarten!

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Oh my wee leprechauns have visited our classroom . The kids built traps but didn’t catch one this year ! But they left us a pile of gold coins and a present .

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Outdoor reading !

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Balancing number expressions can be very abstract. However when you give kids concrete manipulatives like a bucket balance and number balance they can see first hand through trial and error if expressions are balanced (aka equal). First graders can do hard things !

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These cute firsties rocked some Valentine’s Stations today. They built candy heart catapults and tested them , mixed ingredients to make slime, built candy heart towers and made animals out of hearts to decorate their bags! We had fun combining STEM, Art and fun!