Today we started our community helpers theme! For the next month or so we will be learning about all the different people in our community that help us and make our community better! Our play centers are pretty awesome! Ms. Angela's classroom has been converted into a bustling city with a very busy and productive construction site complete with wrecking ball! Ms. Catherine has three play centers. We opened the doors to our very own PEP Clinic, which began seeing patients right away! Students have been exploring tools and diggers in our sensory bin and have enjoyed playing police and firefighter in our cars area. We will have lots of different visitors over the course of this theme so keep a look our for those pictures!
We have had such a fun few weeks learning about winter clothes and snowmen! Some of our favorite activities were playing with snow play-dough, making a snowman snack, scooping up snowballs and pretending to ice skate and sled! We focused on rhyming and counting in Ms. Catherine's class and ordering & comparing in Angela's class! In Ms. Catherine's class we read a rhyming mitten poem and practiced counting snowballs :) Ms. Angela's class read "Snowmen at Night" and "All You Need for a Snowman", acting out parts of the story together. Winter's not over yet though...... we're sure there will be more fun to come! After a few snow days we are finally back at school! This week we started our gingerbread theme! We are reading "The Gingerbread Family"! We started the week by making gingerbread boys and girls out of scented playdough! It was a lot of fun! We aldo decorated our dollhouse to look like gingerbread! We took a small break from gingerbread to enjoy the snow, we used watercolors to paint the snow different colors. We loved feeling the cold snow and then making it change colors! Winter is fun! This week we welcomed three new friends to Ms. Catherine's class. We are so happy to have them here. We made sure to play lots of fun games and work on learning everybody's names. We had a lot of fun playing in our home and apple themed centers during inclusion! This week Ms. Catherine's class took advantage of the beautiful weather and went on several nature walks. We especially enjoyed riding the bikes outside around the track! We read the poem "Fall the Leaves" and had a blast raking and throwing the leaves all around the classroom! We finally got our swing up and ready in Ms. Catherine's class! The kiddos have enjoyed exploring it! They have all been very brave and tried it out!
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AuthorThese photos are from the 2013/2014 school year. They are of both the PEP INC and PEP-C classes here at Sherwood ES. Archives
May 2014
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