The Whales are Back!

Wow! It felt like our classroom was complete again this week. We had all of the amazing Whales back in action. We started off our week with Friendship Celebration part 2. In the morning, the Whales worked together to make egg-free snickerdoodle’s. We spent time in the day to talk about what it means to be a good friend. We expressed our gratitude for the friends in our classroom. At the end of the day, we exchanged friendship gifts. We exchanged gifts one at a time, so we could thank our friends for their gift. After exchanging gifts, we had a glow in the dark dance party, and ate our delicious snickerdoodle’s. What a fabulous day!

Throughout the week we heard many migration presentations. We learned about the Sooty Shearwater, the Gray Whale, the American Golden Plover, the Monarch Butterfly, the Rufous Hummingbird, and the Porcupine Caribou. All of the Whales who presented did a great job at showing where their animal starts and ends their migration. We watched videos on each animal to get a better idea of what they looked like and some of their characteristics. The Whales have started their scientific illustrations of their migrating animals and are working extremely hard on them. Look below for the lyrics to our new Migration Song: “Fly away, fly away, fly away bird. Fly away, fly away, fly away bird. Fly to the Tundra for the party. Fly down to Mexico to have your babies”. Ask your Whale to teach you this song.

In literacy, the Whales have been learning about consonant digraphs (2 consonants coming together to make one sound). We did an activity where some friends were a consonant digraph, and other friends were part of a word. We worked together to make different words with our digraphs. We talked about the meanings of the words we made, and noticed when a word was made up versus real.

On Friday, the Whales welcomed Ms. Patty. She was our mystery reader. The Whales were so excited to see her and listen to her read “Giraffes Can’t Dance”. We even got a photo of her with some of the Whales who have been in her dance classes. How fun! We ended our Friday, soaking up some much needed sunshine. The Whales ran, played and pretended to be their migrating animals.