Wednesday, January 25, 2012

100's Day!

Today was the 100th day of school! To celebrate, we did several fun activities! First the children brought in a collection of 100 items from home. Check out the video to see what they brought:


 


http://youtu.be/4-VosKKWHHQ

Then we created a list of 100 words!



We then made a poster made out of our hands! 100 of them!



Finally, we all made our own ladybugs with 100 dots!




We had a really fun and exciting day! We're now over halfway to second grade!



 

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Water Habitats

Last week and this week we will be learning about water habitats and the plants and animals that live in them. Last week we learned about different wetland habitats like bogs, swamps, and marshes. This week we will be looking closer at ocean and aquarium habitats. Before we started, I asked the children to think of one animal that ilves in a water habitat. They had to label the animal, draw the animal, and write one sentence about which habitat they thought it lived in. Here are a couple examples: