Ending the Week with a Bang!

Myles and Parker get super creative with their engineering skills during morning free choice. 

"Hey!  This thing is color coded AND bigger than you, Myles!" -Parker

J is for Jump rope!  J is also for Jellyfish tentacle!  Crosby brings in a jump rope for sound circle and it reminds me of a jellyfish tentacle.  What better way to make this rather abstract concept tangible than by straightening it out and measuring it.  Yup!  It's 9 feet long...just the right size for the slimy tentacle of a jellyfish.  Nice connection, Crosby!

Our read aloud today was about recognizing feelings, leaning into them, validating their existence and moving through them.  This is a very powerful book about the coming and going of emotions...a great read for kiddos with big feels!

Speaking of emotions...J is for Joy!

What brings YOU joy? 

J is for Jokes!

To introduce our joke activity and to get some ideas flowing, Ms. Katie shares some great jokes with us during morning meeting.

And then it was our turn to either create our own jokes or to illustrate one of our favorites.  

So much fun!

Our letter J sound circle!  Nice work, friends!

 

J is for Jellyfish!

J is for Jellyfish!  Today we learned all kinds of amazing facts about jellyfish.  

We learned that:

-jellyfish are boneless, bloodless and brainless

-they are the oldest multicellular animals on the planet...they even predate dinosaurs!

-their skin is so thin that oxygen goes right through it...that's why they don't need vital organs like  hearts or lungs!

-jellyfish can clone themselves...say what?!?!?!

-even though their tentacles can grow to be fifteen feet long, they NEVER get tangled...they are just too slippery!

-a group of jellyfish (sometimes more than 300,000!) can be called a bloom, a swarm and our favorite...a smack!

-jellyfish are are between 85% and 98% water and when they are left on the beach, they completely evaporate

-their long tentacles trail behind them and sting prey...jellyfish love to eat shrimp, fish and crabs...yum!

-even though jellyfish are called fish, they are not fish at all...they are invertebrates!

-sea turtles love to eat jellyfish...we predicted today that their shell helps to protect them from those nasty tentacles!

Ask your kiddo to share some fun facts with you!

We love water marbles!  We predict that those squishy little things feel just like a jellyfish!