Game Day!

The Chamberlin Hive was filled last week! Today we had Game Day to celebrate!

Name practice

We practice writing our names everyday!!

Writers' Workshop

Building with blocks

Connecting Readers' Workshop and Explore Time!

One of our favorite familiar books is Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton.  The main character, Mike Mulligan, has a steam shovel named Mary Anne.  He is proud of Mary Anne and "always said that she could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week."  As the years passed, steam shovels were replaced with gasoline, electric and Diesel motor shovels.  There wasn't any work left for Mike and Mary Anne until one day they volunteered to dig the cellar of the new town hall in the town of Popperville.  

Today during Explore time, the students used our big bin of wooden blocks to build their own town hall--just like Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne!  I love their creativity and connection to what we are learning in other parts of our day!

Morning Explore Time

Morning Explore Time