This week we had a wonderful time learning about ourselves and our families! We discussed our families and what makes up a family! Throughout our week we shared each child's family page. It was fun to see all the family members and pets and learn about each others' family traditions. They all loved sharing about their families! This activity targeted language, confident behavior in front of a group, voice volume, and respecting others by listening to their friends.
On Wednesday we listened to the Mat Man song from our Handwriting Without Tears program. The song told us how to build our friend, Mat, by using strips. We also read some books about Mat Man. During center time the children drew a self portrait for their collage using Mat Man. They are so cute!! They also built Mat Man during center time on the carpet!
During class we signed in to the question, "What color is your hair?" This activity worked on recognizing names, one to one counting, and recognizing and comparing numbers. Center activities included the sensory table filled with cups and moon sand, playdoh with bear cookie cutters and materials to make a face (fine motor), counting the number of members in their family and letters in their names (meaningful counting and recognizing numbers), sorting and weighing bears, using a variety of materials to fill in face cards (making decisions independently), building with magnets shapes, legos and blocks (fine and gross motor), singing the Hokey Pokey song (gross motor, listening), dressing wooden people with magnetic clothes (fine motor, making decisions, taking turns answering questions about our stories, making the alphabet letters into robots (fine motor, recognizing letters), and playing with trains, cars, tools, the farm and the doll house (taking turns, resolving conflict if it arises, being respectful, appropriate voice volume, developing friendships with peers).
The hippos have been doing a great job with the morning routine, schedule, and classroom transitions. We are encouraging teamwork as we clean our room each day. Everyone is participating in centers. Some are led by us, and others involve the children working together to create, pretend, and take turns.
Our letter this week was the letter L. We watched a video that went over the letter, it's sound and how to write it. We learned that lion, leaf and Lani begin with the letter L. During our Heggerty lesson we continued working on rhyming. Point out rhyming words when you are reading books to your child.
Our 2nd Steps lesson went over paying attention using an attent-o-scope. We make this with our hands and placing them on our eyes resembling binoculars. An attent-o-scope helps us focus our attention on the teacher and others we want to listen to.
This week we began show and tell. Three students each week will bring the bag home on Wednesday to gather one item to show and tell on Thursday. This activity works on language, answering questions, voice volume, confident behavior and respectful behavior.
Books we read:
Families
Mat Man Shapes
Books we read:
Families
Mat Man Shapes
We are Alike / We are Different
Sylvie
Things to Practice At Home:
Self help skills: Continue to practice getting backpack on by themselves/ zipping backpacks/ practice getting shoes on by themselves.
Same/different concept: How are we alike and how are we different? How are toys/objects alike and how are they different.
Questions to Ask:
1. Have 2 family members stand next to each other and ask your child what is the same and what is different about them.
2. What job did you do this week?
3. Count how many letters are in your name.
4. How many people are in your family?
5. Tell me about Mat Man. (he has one head, one nose, two ears, etc.)
Sylvie
Things to Practice At Home:
Self help skills: Continue to practice getting backpack on by themselves/ zipping backpacks/ practice getting shoes on by themselves.
Same/different concept: How are we alike and how are we different? How are toys/objects alike and how are they different.
Questions to Ask:
1. Have 2 family members stand next to each other and ask your child what is the same and what is different about them.
2. What job did you do this week?
3. Count how many letters are in your name.
4. How many people are in your family?
5. Tell me about Mat Man. (he has one head, one nose, two ears, etc.)
6. What color did Sylvie the flamingo turn? (all colors)
Reminders:
Below is all the fun we had learning and playing together.
Reminders:
Tuesday 9/9 - School Pictures
Tuesday 9/16- Please send to school 5 apples, preferably different colors for our apple activities
Next Week:
Friendship
Friendship
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| Show and Tell |
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| Show and Tell |
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| Show and Tell |
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| People with magnet clothing. |
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| Singers |
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| We used these items to make faces. |
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| We drew a picture of ourself in our journal. |
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| We used magnet pieces to make funny faces. |
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| Painting with watercolors in art. |
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| We went over body parts and followed directions with the Hokey Pokey Song. |
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| Happy 4th birthday, Rowan! |
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| Putting together Mat Man. |
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| Another Mat Man! |
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| We counted, recognized the numbers and compared them. |
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| We practiced sequencing pictures to make a story. |
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| Each child came to the front of the room to share their family page! |
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| What color is your hair? We practiced finding our names and choosing which color hair we have. |
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| We practiced tracing on dotted lines and recognizing letters. |
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| It was fun to use a variety of materials to make faces. |
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| We used a magnifying mirror to find out the color of our eyes. |
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| Sorting and weighing bear families. |
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| We colored in the eyes on our All About Me poster that will come home next week! |
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| What color is your hair? |
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| We practiced one on one counting by counting the number of people in our families. |
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| Outside fun! |
