What's Happening In This Movie?

I wonder what we might be doing this week? There is a clue in this video:

Can Do - Must Do - Trust You!

We are learning to be independent learners. During reading we have some jobs we MUST do and then things we CAN do when we are done. Carolyn calls it CAN DO - MUST DO - TRUST YOU, because she can trust us to get it done! Today our MUST DO was to make two playdough words, put our name tag next to them and take an ipad photo. We all did our playdough words. Fantastic learning, Little Einsteins!

Learning Targets

Today Carolyn showed us this picture:

We thought they were circles or a disc or a CD or a swirly lollipop.
Carolyn drew some circles on the carpet (it's OK - they will vacuum away!) and we tried to flick counters all the way into the middle:

It was tricky - here are some things we remembered saying:
I can't do it!
Yes you can - keep trying!
Can you help me?`
I can help you - do it like this...
It's embarrassing!
It's annoying!
That took me SEVEN hops!
My finger was getting owies and red when we were flicking!
Give Reagan a clap! He did it!

What great learning language.
Now we have targets to show how we are doing with our number writing. We are learning to write numbers 1-10. Gold hi-lighter means I can do it, pink means I want to work on this one. Here are our numbers today:

Come and see what we drew on the targets next to them!

Playdough "Fast Words"

We have twenty "Fast Words" to learn as soon as we can. 

We do "Word Power" to help get these words into our brains. 

We made worms out of playdough and made the worms into letters. 

We made our four fast words.

Everyone at home: Can you guess what our four focus words were today?

Leave a comment to tell us.

Writing Our Names

What an amazing group of learners we are! We have all been working on writing our names. We have our own mini whiteboard with our name on it, so we have our name to look at as we write. Look at how proud we are!

We are open for 2014!

Today our very first five-year-olds for 2014 came for their second school visit. 

We read "The Jigaree" together. After reading the book, we drew our own jigarees. 

I think the Little Einsteins for 2014 are gong to be WONDERFUL learners!