President's Day Theme

This week was full of fun and learning here in my classroom!

I wanted to share just a few of the ideas we did this week:


Math: 

• The students cleaned quarters and pennies and while cleaning we quizzed them on how much a quarter and penny were worth.  They cleaned the coins in warm soapy water.  They then dried them and put them on a paper towel to finish drying.
• We made a book about a penny and a book about a quarter.  The books were really simple.  For example the penny book said: This is a penny.  It is copper brown.  Abraham Lincoln is on a penny.
• We played coin bingo.  I made this really easily on word using a table.  I placed coin amounts in the different squares.  As I held up a coin, they said what it was worth and covered that amount with the correct play coin.
• I used google images to find a simple big.  Then I wrote different amounts on them. (1-10 cents for the 3 year olds and 10-20 for the 4 and 5 year olds.)  They then counted the correct amount of pennies and placed them on the piggy bank.

Writing:

• The students filled in the blank to the following sentence.  When I become president, I ________.  They then drew a picture of what they will look like as president.

Fine Motors/Art/Listening:

• We followed directions while drawing a picture of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
• The students listened to directions and cut out certain shapes to make Abraham Lincoln  

Reading:

• We read several stories about presidents and had several out for the students to retell and/or picture read.