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| Admit it, this is the most beautiful thermal laminator you've ever seen. |
The Agents have been doing a lot of writing in a lot of different ways. Sometimes they respond to things they've read. Others they're writing their own stories. Their favorite form of writing so far, however, has been the silly sentence puzzles. My grandmother sent me these several months ago, but it wasn't until recently their full potential was realized. The Agents had a blast connecting nouns, verbs, adjectives, and articles together to make silly sentences like: "The ball crawled over the monkey" and "The firefighter jumped on the carrot and ate a fish". They were so amused by their creations they didn't moan a bit about writing them into their journals.
Speaking of writing, Agent V. has been working really hard on spelling words and putting his own sentences together. This is his most perfect one yet, although it didn't quite follow the instructions of the activity, and he was so proud of it he asked me to post it to the blog. Good job, Agent V.!
We've also been working hard in Science, learning about the human body. The Agents' favorite part of this unit so far has been the Circulatory System Game. We took a few of the big red wooden beads from our pattern bead kit for 'blood' and 'circulated' them around, adding one more every time we made several successful rounds until we got to four beads total. They ask if we can play it pretty much every other day, and would pass the beads around forever if I let them.
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Egg salad and potato soup days...
Dental hygiene days...
And Green Eggs and "Ham" days. Both the visit from Erica from Just For Kids Pediatric Dentistry and the foray into green food were hosted by Little Treasures Child Care, so a big thank you to them! The Agents had a blast. The green food, a tribute to Dr. Seuss on his birthday, was an especially nice touch. The kids ate their green eggs and green "ham" and listened to a recording and animation of the book Green Eggs and Ham about twelve million times (much to the dismay of our 6th grade visitor, honorary Agent T.).
Last Friday we had another special visitor, future Agent A. Agent A. has been on the blog a couple times, most notably on our field trip to Pumpkin Land, but on Friday she spent the whole day with us - and even came in uniform! It was so great having her. Agent M. was super stoked to have her kid sister in the class, and Agents V and J were pretty excited as well. Agent A. is in preschool, but she got down to business and showed us how ready she'll be for Kindergarten next year. She also gave me a chance to try out a binder system I might use in place of/conjunction with the more traditional workboxes, and it went even better than I'd hoped. Thanks a bunch, Agent A.!
During Agent A.'s visit, we made corn on the cob. This was a request of Agent J., and a bit of a challenge being that it's only the first few days of Spring and we're in Maine. Luckily I found some frozen ears at the grocery just as I began to despair, and the Agents had a lot of fun with it after we turned it into a sort of game in which the Agents rolled the corn onto the spoon and lowered it into the water.
Agent M. made even more of a challenge out of it by attempting to roll the corn onto the spoon without using her hands.
I hope your March has been as fantastic as ours has been so far! It's hard to believe this is the last week of the month. Last week was the first day of Spring, and I've been taking down all our winter decorations with much heartache. Winter is my favorite season. I have to say, though, it'll be nice to have a break from the cold and grey. Anyway, I'm off to put a bit of spring in the classroom. Stay tuned for fabulousness!
God bless,
Mia
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