Library Walk

A beautiful day for a walk to the library! 

Rectangles!

In math today we talked about rectangles and created a rectangle snail. This was a great project for many reasons. With this project we were able to discuss a rectangle, practice our cutting skills and also practice following multiple step directions. I think they came out rather cute!

Fire Station Field Trip

Today we had the opportunity to learn about fire safety. One thing we talked about was our meeting spot if there were a fire at home. I encouraged the kids to talk about this at home so they knew their plan.

Here are a few pictures from our field trip! 

Social Thinking

We have been learning a lot about how to be a respectful member of our classroom. We have been reading a lot of stories around this topic. We began the year with the book "Have You Filled A Bucket Today?" written by Carol McCloud. With this story we learned that everyone has an imaginary bucket that holds their good feelings. When we are kind and thoughtful, we can help to fill that person's bucket. If we are not kind, we are bucket dippers, and that does not make others feel good. Our goal is to fill everyone's bucket and in doing so, we also fill our own!

We followed up with these two bucket filling books.

After, we began with stories and conversations with the "Incredible Flexible You" series. This is a social thinking curriculum and there are 5 stories in the series. We have been learning that our actions and the things we do can affect how others around us feel. We have read and discussed three of the books in the series thus far. 

Links for more info. 

 Bucket Fillers

Bucket Filling Song (The kids love this!)