Mrs. Laura's Class: 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)