Archive for February 2015

We finished up learning about our bodies during the last week of January by learning how to keep our bodies healthy! As part of eating healthy, we learned about the 5 food groups!   We learned that we get important vitamins and nutrients from the healthy food we eat!  We also learned that we should eat…

During the month of February, we will be learning about different classifications of animals.  This first week we learned about FISH! We learned all sorts of interesting things about fish!  And then we organized what we had learned in a bubble map.  We read “The Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister together as a class and…

We took a little break from our animal theme and focused on Valentine’s, the color pink, and reviewing our letters.  Playing a matching game on our class whiteboard.  We matched capital and lowercase letters and reviewed their sounds.  These kids are getting their letters down and getting ready to read! Miss Emily led the children…

We jumped right back into animals this week learning about REPTILES!Specifically, we learned about snakes, turtles, alligators and crocodiles, and chameleons.  The children loved making their own “Reptile” book!  We learned that books have a title.  After the kids cut out the pages of their book, they put their books in order making sure the…

Since we learned about fish and reptiles earlier in the month, and then we have been learning all about mammals this week, it was perfect timing for a field trip to BYU’s Bean Museum to see so many of the animals we learned about!  We even got to see some live animals including these amazing…