February 27th, 2015

S is for Swan

This week, we've celebrated the letter S...

...and, shifting slightly from a transportation theme, construction. We read Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel on Monday morning, and were ready to dig!

Really dig!

We also took the opportunity to examine official blueprints.  For whatever reason, deep in a storage closet upstairs, I found blueprints to an office building on 15th street downtown.  Together, my students and I found lots of squares, rectangles, triangles and ovals...

...and learned to orient ourselves on the blueprint.

**Sidenote: This is the last time I was able to successfully use my laptop before D-Day.

Our highlight of the week was a visit from Pilot Dan.  He talked to us, showed us pictures, and...

...let us try on his helmet.

For the rest of the day we were captivated by flight...

...and everything was turned into a plane.

s is for stickers!

Later in the week, we found time for our s-stickers...

...interactive white board...

...writing...

...bulldozing...













...and spilling applesauce our our heads.

May we all find time to freely hang.