Police and Firefighter Visit

The students enjoyed a visit from some special Madeira Community Helpers.

We welcomed Sam's uncle John, who is a Madeira Firefighter for a discussion on fire safety. 

It was so fun watching the firemen climb the huge ladder on their truck.

Police Officer Miller shared great safety tips and let us check out his cruiser.

We the Kids... {celebrating constitution day}

We learned about The Constitution today. 

First, we watched a short movie clip from this book:

Then we had a great discussion about WHY it is important to have a promise to each other to ensure that everyone can be happy and safe here at school. 

We wrote our class constitution.

Sounds good to me! 

And made these beautiful portraits as a way to say we'd abide by our new constitution. 

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE hearing my students read our constitution...
Listen to it below:

     

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Teaching American Symbols {FREEBIE!}

The students have loved becoming American Symbol experts this week!

We have read many great books, collected facts, shared our background knowledge, created symbol art and writing, made an American flag for our cooking activity this week, checked on the Bald Eagle cam,... and more! 

Check out the Bald Eagle live nest came here:

We used this site to collect more information on bald eagles:

Here is the American flag we created while Cooking with Mrs. Raymore:

Some of our Symbol art:

On Friday we created a U.S. Symbol Quilt that is absolutely beautiful. The students REALLY LOVED creating this during social studies... and begged me to make extra copies at lunch so they could make more in the afternoon! :)

We worked in groups using collections of books and our anchor charts to create our own facts. 

LOVE LOVE LOVE 

I have created this simple freebie if you'd like to create a quilt with your class. You could also use it to create a class book. 

Enjoy!!! 

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Eagle Update!

We started observing this Bald Eagle back in February. My kindergarten friends loved checking in with the live feed, asking questions, researching bald eagles, and keeping a close eye on mom.  


They were SO excited when she laid 3 eggs! 


We've been on Spring Break this week, but I am excited to share an update with the students on Monday. 


Click the picture to check out what's new in the nest: 

American Flags

Love these beautiful American Flags that my students made with watercolor!

Community Unit

We just finished up a great unit on Community.

Here are some of the fun activities that we enjoyed during this unit:

 Our list of places and people/workers in our town, Madeira.

The children paired up and one drew the place and the other drew the worker- they LOVED this!

 Our Community Map inspired by our friends next door in 

Mrs. Bell's class. 

I just *love* their little drawings!

The children also enjoyed talking about the jobs they hope to have when they grow up...

(11 of my 20 students said that they want to be a teacher!)