Polar Bears, MLK, jr., Penguins, & Math

I just realized that I haven't posted in a while and I needed to get caught up! I have so many pictures of these precious kids in action! I want to make sure to share them all with you. When we studied about Polar Bears, one of the math centers was to measure a life-sized polar bear paw with different items. Cailyn & Sarah were working on that in the pictures below.

Above, you will see sweet little Ava working at the Independent math center. On this day she was doing Emoji Math and locating missing numbers on the 120 chart.

Pictured above is Jett working to complete the number puzzle to 200.

Silas, Lillianna, and Reid are at the Technology center working on math skills.

Congratulations to Silas for being our Thunder Reading winner for the month of December! Woo hoo! He won this adorable hat! He looks SO cute in it, too!

Cailyn & Murphy worked hard during the Making Meaning center time to complete the 120 puzzle! Great job, girls!

Here are the penguins we made when we studied about them. The kids made the craft and wrote penguin facts on the paper. I always enjoy teaching about penguins and the kids always love learning about them! It's a win-win situation!

Above is our collaborative poster of Martin Luther King, Jr. We made this the day after MLK Day. We studied about him all day and even read about him during our reading center time. The kids are always saddened and shocked when they hear how people were treated so cruelly because of skin color. I always tell them that people have done evil things in our history, but it's good for us to learn about those times so that we don't repeat the bad things. We can all be world changers!

I know this is not any of your kiddos, but this is one of my little granddaughters, Everly, who went skiing during this week. She just turned 3 while she was there on January 30th. Isn't she so stinkin' cute?! It popped up in the middle of the pictures I took of my classroom kids, so I had to share it! I think I showed the kids in my classroom when my daughter sent it to me.

I spy the place value blocks, so I know Jett and Ava are working on their place value skills during math center time at the "I" center.

They look so focused! Looks can be deceiving sometimes! Ha! Ha!

These 3 are at the "M" center eating Cheez-Its and working on math.

The above kids are enjoying time at the "T" center.

I always have math games and puzzles out in case kids finish before time to go to the next center. I tell them if they complete a puzzle, then I will take their picture for my blog. They love to do silly poses. Pictured above is Reid and Silas who finished a place value puzzle.