Fun in PreK-1 & Kinder

Happy Sunday!  I hope you're all having a good, relaxing weekend... (with Thanksgiving just around the corner, yeah right!) Last week was seriously the BEST week ever.  We were grooving, that's for sure!  Here's some fun stuff we got up to... Five Fat Turkeys Poem This poem was AWESOME because we returned to it for a writing mini-lesson on periods (notice how the period goes at the end of the sentence, not at the end of every line).   Five Senses Books Every day we learned about a new sense and took a sense-specific walk.  On our Touching Walk we brought back in one object and wrote to describe it.  (I LOVE how this little girl put periods at the end of her sentences and not at the end of each line.  Yay!) 5 Senses Science: Writing to Describe Popcorn (Freebie!) 5 Senses and Science: Mystery Scent Bottles I love, love, love this activity!  The kiddos had to use their sense of smell to predict what was inside eac...

With parent teacher conferences looming next week, can I say Thank God it's Friday any louder?  :)  Here's a look at some of the fun activities, art projects, and centers we've done for the past week learning about Our Five Senses. Taste: Taste Class Book  We made a class book of our favorite tastes. I met with each group to work on the pages during our literacy rotations in the morning. For my lower groups, I directed them to sound out and spell only the first part of the word, and then I finished the rest. For my highest group I led them through sounding out and spelling the entire word. Smell: "Scentsational" Name Writing First, the students traced over their names in marker.  Then they traced over their names in glue (great fine motor practice!)  I had placed different distinctive spices in cups, which we smelled and tried to guess the name of (cinammon, pepper, and garlic).  The students then picked their favorite...