I am sure your child has been telling you about Buddy Stations because I think it is all they want to do!!  I love it even though it takes A LOT of extra planning.  I can see so much learning and cooperation happening it makes it all worth it!!  The students have been doing letter work, handwriting, number recognition, art activities, math games, pokey pin projects and more!!  We added some turkey activities this week so I think they had extra fun!

Take a peek at some of the activities they have been working on....

Learning about letter Gg today was certainly goofy!!!  We started our day off reading a goofy story and making a goofy bear wearing goofy glasses!!  Then Kendall shared some goofy snacks!!  We watched a goofy video starring Goofy of course!!  We sang some goofy songs and then we modeled our very own goofy glasses!!

We read one of my favorite silly stories today...There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.  We also made our own version of the story that we will be bringing home soon.  I like to keep it at school so we can practice retelling the story to our friends.  Izzy Lopez brought Old Lady treat sacks and fly cookies too!!  Thanks Izzy for the ffffabulous snacks!
We had lots of ffffun learning about letter FFF!!

Today we read about our new Alphabet friend Funny Fish.  We made our own funny fish in his fish bowl too.  We practiced writing letter Ff and worked on writing our numbers using the dry erase boards.  We have been going to buddy stations where students work on different centers with a buddy.  It is amazing to see the cooperation that is going on in our classroom!!  I am one proud teacher!! After about a month of going to buddy stations the students really become independent and I can start working with groups and individuals that are ready to move on to reading or help them if they are struggling with something.  I really love getting to spend one on one time with my students.  

We read about frogs and learned all kinds of interesting facts about them.  We learned a cute little song too....

The Frog Lives in the Pond
(sung to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell)

The frog lives in the pond.
His tongue is oh so long.
It reaches high
To catch a fly.
The frog lives in the pond.

We made a cute little frog with a long tongue and if you open it's mouth you will find a fly inside!!  Jansen and his mom made the cutest frogs out of apples!!  They brought two kinds of dip for the apples too!  Thanks Jansen!!  I thought these frogs were fffffantastic!! :)