Sight Words

The sight words we worked on last month:

one, the, I, am, see, come, what, sunny, funny, October

Sight words for this month:

yellow, blue, red, green, purple, orange, meet, his, her, November

Letters for everyone to review:

Bb, Dd, Yy, Ww, Ll, Uu

Welcome to South America

We have had fun with our first week in South America!

We first visited a farm in South America where we met a Bossy Gallito!

This folk tale helped us remember how to treat our friends and taught us a few new Spanish words along the way!  We had fun making our own Bossy Gallito projects.  We first made the rooster body by adding one shape at a time and coloring in with pastels.  We introduced warm colors/cool colors and used these to create contrast.  Then, we put a water color wash over all of the canvas and tried to earn our feathers by doing our worksheet, answering questions and matching words.  I think they turned out pretty neat!  I can't seem to get pictures off of my phone onto the computer yet, so. . .use your imagination!  I did it!  They were really beautiful!

Galimoto

In Africa we had a chance to visit a little boy who looked around for wires to make a moving toy called a galimoto.  At each point in the book that he collected wires I let the kids collect a 'wire' pipe cleaner.  At the end of the book I taught the kids how to make a little man out of their wires.  Their very own galimoto was coming to life!  We moved him and posed him and saved him in our drawer until halloween and our study of Egypt when we made him into a mummy!!  The kids just loved making their galimotos and the special paper bead necklaces we put on them.  Those necklaces did double duty as they served as an counting aid for our math that day!