Last week’s competition was a quiz about big machines. Students had to match five types of big machines to their pictures. Every paper with the cement mixer, bulldozer, roller, excavator, and dump truck correctly labeled were entered in a drawing for the pop-up book Big Wheels. The lucky winner is fourth grader Victoria .
Big Machines contest
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Froggy fun
The kindergartners continued their frog unit. They sang “Five Little Speckled Frogs” and listened to City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems, and Jump, Frog, Jump by Robert Kalan. Then they heard another adventure of “The Wide-Mouth Frog.” After selecting books, the children finished making their wide-mouth frog puppets. Next visit, the children will use their frog puppets to retell the story as a class!
More dinosaur fun
Mrs. McCall’s students learned more about dinosaurs this week. They read information books about Allosaurus and Iguanodon. Then they watched a video of the classic story Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff. In the story, a dinosaur comes to life and enjoys a day off from the museum with a boy named Danny. What fun!
Wide-mouth frog
The kindergartners have started a frog unit in the library. First, they learned the song “Five Little Speckled Frogs.” Next, they learned about the life cycle of a frog by reading Tadpole Diary by David Drew. Then, the children listened to Mrs. Miliano retell “The Wide-Mouth Frog.” The session ended with each child making the base of his/her own wide-mouth frog puppet!
Analogies, anyone?
Last week’s library contest was an analogies quiz. An analogy is two pairs of words that have the same word relationship. All the analogies on the quiz fall in the agent/action category. For example, “Pig is to squeal and dog is to…” From the list provided, students had to circle “bark,” the answer that best completes the analogy. If all the analogies were completed correctly, the quiz was entered in a drawing for a stuffed animal. There is one winner from each grade, even kindergarten! The lucky winners are Paige (K), Kamber (grade 1), Candace (grade 2), Kyle (grade 3), Samantha (grade 4), Danté (grade 5), and Kamen (grade 6).