Jan Brett

This is always a fun week to explore. We learn a lot about Jan Brett and her signature “hint” on each page. We focused on 2 of my favorite stories, The Hat and The mitten. We had lots of fun retelling each of these books in our own words. Story retelling is one of the first stages of reading/comprehension. I think they had the most fun retelling the mitten with the use of props and a parachute!

For our letter we worked on the letter Hh. We did our letter hunt and had fun using a q-tip to make the letter Hh. We are continuing to work on building our names as well...this is something you can do at home (magnetic letters, noodles, sand writing, yarn, stamps).

For our number sense we are continuing to work with numbers 0-10. We are working on 1:1 counting and understanding the value of each number. This week we had fun sequencing the book, The Hat using ordinals.

For fine motor we added mosaic tiles to a hat during craft time and laced a mitten during independent time. The kiddos also painted a hedgehog of their own.

Some other fun and educational activities we did was ordering mittens from biggest to smallest and color sorting as well. These may seem like simple tasks but they are great brain exercises!

Gumby and Pokey are off to a great start. The our first two kiddos had so much fun sharing their adventures. I am looking forward to seeing what next brings.

We are finishing up with our bible verse this week with the focus of Loving others as God loves us. We pray about this everyday before snack.

This week ask your child to try and...

1. Make their name using magnetic letters

2. Count to 20

3. Using 1:1 counting count out 10 items

4. Find different shapes around the house (square, diamond, rectangle, circle, oval, etc)

Sharing our Gumby and Pokey adventures!

Dr. Seth came to tel us how to take care of our teeth...he even left us with some goodies!

What could fit in our mitten?

Mitten lacing time! A great fine motor skill

organizing from biggest to smallest

Mrs. Jennifer loving on a sweet and shy boy...

Great job friends

Making Hedgie from the story, The Mitten

3 sweet princess!

Free play! 

 Friday:

q-tip painting...a fun fine motor skill

weekly letter hunt

sequencing with ordinals

color sorting

making a hat from the book, The Hat

Going on a shopping spree

So sweet!

Love this face!

Mrs. Paula's class paying us a visit with a Presidential March

Story retelling the book, The Mitten

The owl squeezed in...

Our mitten is full

Until...the mouse made the bear sneeze...

Now for some parachute fun!!

Valentine's Day

              Love was in the air this week in our room! We got another new friend this week! We feel so blessed to have a class of 14 sweethearts! This week we worked on the letter Vv, the number 10, and the shape heart.

              During our letter work we did a letter hunt and learned that 2 friends in our room have the letter Vv in their names. We also made love bugs by using the letters of our names.

For the number 10 we worked on adding 10 hearts to our 10 wiggly fingers (there is a fun song that goes along with this...check their folders). We also did a number and heart match game.

We had such fun with our independent station we threaded noodles, laced hearts, created our own valentine artwork, picked up pom-poms with plastic tweezers, and tore pieces of paper to fill a heart (because we love you to pieces). These were all amazing fine motor skills for their growing hands!!

The kiddos worked hard to make a very special piece of clay art for you...this is something you will be able to treasure for many years to come. We also made our Valentine’s Day bags for our special Valentines.

Our part was so amazing. Thank you to all of the parents who took the time to volunteer and help plan. Every year I am so blessed with willing parents! The kiddos played games, passes out Valentines, sorted candy hearts, made a fun snack, and put together a fun craft! Such a fun way to celebrate our love for our friends!

Finally, we are continuing to learn how to love others the way that God loves us! We are doing this by learning to be helpful, kind, sharing, caring, and so much more!

Please have fun when you have your week with Gumby or Pokey and remember to send him back on Thursday. Every kiddo will have the opportunity to have some fun with this!

This week ask your child to...

1. spell their name

2. arrange the letters in their name to make their name

3. count to 20

4. identify numbers 0-5

5. Find hearts, circles, and squares around the house

6. Ask them who they should love like themselves

making a masterpiece

lacing hearts...a great fine motor skill

10 little hearts!

Let's Get Moving!!

cute little love bug snacks!

Making sweet treasures for you!

The power of free play! Making friends!

Baking our treasures to dry them quicker!

tearing paper to fill their heart! "I love you to pieces!
Tearing paper is a great way to increase the strength in their hands...the smaller pieces the tear...they stronger their hands are.

 Friday

Decorating our Valentine's Day bags

Making "love bugs" with our names...these are in the hallway.
This is something you can do at home...give them all the letters of their name and have them put them in the correct order.

Peeling stickers is great for eye/hand coordination, pinching and grasping!

Game time!

Making headbands!

Parfait time! YUM!!

candy heart sort and graph

 

Our finished gift to you! Happy Valentine's Day!