MIS Reception 1: Winter and W (January 14-18, 2013)

This week in Reception 1 we talked about seasons of the year, the season of winter, and we learned more about the letter "W". We play-acted winter sports and activities, such as having snowball fights, playing ice hockey, and being reindeer in the snow. We also colored and cut out our bodies as ice skaters or snowboarders and added our faces to decorate the wall outside our classroom. On Friday, we added more "snow" to our classroom tree on the window. Some of us went outside to look for things with which we could decorate our new snowman, Fonzie. In culture, we talked about north, south, east and west, and northern and southern hemispheres. Mr. Bernard showed us the Äquator, and we had a guest speaker from Australia -- Sophie from 1st Grade -- to tell us about her holidays down under. In math, we sorted lots of different things, like rubber duckies, balls, Lincoln Logs, and Schlümpfe. It was a very busy week, and we learned a lot.

Cody writes the word "winter" all by herself!

SCIENCE AND CULTURE

We learned that when it is winter in Germany, it is summer in other places.

We learned about the poles, northern and southern

hemispheres, and the equator, with Mr. Bernard in German

Joshua points to the equator

Sophie told us about a different part of the world: the continent of Australia.

(Sophie has a nice golden glow from her holidays in her home country.)

Thanks for telling us about Australia, Sophie!

Allegra pretends to be a reindeer in the snow

Jacob shows us imaginary sledding

It's winter in Germany, with fresh snow!

We tried to catch snowflakes on our tongues.

Our hair holds more snowflakes than our tongues

Sometimes we like to scream as loud as we can!

(Big people do it, too)

Greta found and peeled a chestnut -- NOT EDIBLE!

Questi non sono maroni!

Playing in the tree

What a Wonderful World!

Greta colors her W for "witch"

When We Work hard together as a class during cleanup time or anytime,

and We have hardly any names on the board during the day, We put a marshmallow in the cup!

When We fill our cup with marshmallows, We Will get a Winter hot chocolate party!

Allegra glues her ice skater together

Lani holds up her ice skater's body

My head Will go here!

Max can write W: one line down, one line up.

One line down, one line up! (We draw Ws in the air, too!)

Allegra's beautiful W!

Some Sesame Street "W" Videos to Watch with your children:

Larry King interviews the Letter W: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xuPaf4UIi8

Dragnet Parody Letter W: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDUkO3aaxfc

Kermit talks about the Letter W: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MASUR7Oq7U

Willamina's favorite letter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijY40jSWZFc

And We Watched this one for fun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qTIGg3I5y8

Miss Jolian is dressed for Winter

MATH

Counting heads

Calendar-keeping

Talking about sorting by shape, type and color

Sorting Lincoln Logs

The Tigers sorted so quickly, into so many different groups,

without any help from the teacher!!

Jacob had long pieces

Mika had short pieces

Lani had long pieces with niches on one side;

Joshua had the shortest pieces and turned them sideways

Making the ever-so-famous
Fonzie the Snowman

First we stretched cotton balls, then we glued them onto

different pieces for the body of our snowman.

More glue, please!

MORE GLUE, PLEASE!

Then a few of us went outside (while others napped or stayed inside),

and we looked for things to decorate our snowman with.

Gangsters and graffiti

(maybe we'll talk about these when we do the Letter "G")

Putting the finishing touches on our snowman...
We found bottle caps for buttons, rubber tubing for hair,
a plastic cap for a hat, and berries for a mouth.

Then we voted on names. "Frosty" was eliminated, because it is simply

too commonplace for our classroom.

Out of 8 other names, Fonzie won!

PHOTOS WITH FONZ