March 15th, 2013- Nursery Rhyme Time

Lakeshore Bond Proposal:

• On May 7th, you will have the opportunity to vote on a bond that will help address some of our critical needs here at Lakeshore Public Schools.  There is information outside the office on the proposals.  If you are unable to stop in, let me know and I can send information home with your child.
• Information can also be found on the Lakeshore Public Schools web page. Here are two links:

http://www.lakeshoreschools.k12.mi.us/bond.html

 

http://lpsvision2013.com/

Highlights from the Week:

• Special Theme of the Week: Nursery Rhymes
• Heart Word of the Week: what
• In language arts, we worked on distinguishing between reality and fantasy.  We looked at what elements of a book could actually happen and what elements could not happen.  We also did a lot of fun activities with nursery rhymes.  We practiced counting syllables in the rhyme, Jack be Nimble.  We practiced rhyming with Jack and Jill and Humpty Dumpty.  With Hey Diddle Diddle, we practice coming up with words that made a /k/ sound and then replaced them into the nursery rhyme.  With Little Bo Peep, we practiced listening for words that started with a /l/ sound.
• In writing, we continued working in our journals and adding more details to describe what we were writing about.  Also, inspired by the nursery rhyme, Jack Be Nimble, we practiced coming up with ideas of different items Jack could jump over.  Everyone can up with an item and an adjective to describe that object.
• In math, we continued with sea creature story problems.  We have been solving problems that our classmates have created.  We have solved them using white boards, using our fingers, and using cubes.
• During our theme time, we have been doing some fun activities with nursery rhymes.  Some of our favorite activities include acting out the nursery rhymes.  We have also done a few science experiments that went along with a few of the rhymes.  Inspired by Jack and Jill and Humpty Dumpty, we started talking about gravity.  We talked about how gravity pulls things to the earth.  We did an experiment to see what would happen if we dropped and heavy object and a light object at the same time.  Most of us thought the heavy object would hit the ground first.  Much to our surprise, both items hit the ground at the same time.  We then continued this experiment with other objects and noticed that they all hit the ground at the same time.   On Wednesday, we did a gravity experiment with Humpty Dumpty.  We turned an egg into Humpty Dumpty.  We then observed what happens to an egg when gravity pulls it to the ground.
• During community centers, we had a variety of nursery rhyme themed centers.  At the art center, we painted a picture of ourselves sitting on a wall.  At our construction zone, we are building walls and retelling the rhyme, Humpty Dumpty.  At our science center, we are doing a Jack and Jill inspired experiments.  We are building a hill out of books and a ramp.  We are seeing what object roll down a hill and what object don't.  We are also noticing the steepness of the hill affects how the objects move.