Dental Awareness and Community Helper Week

This was a fun week to explore jobs...jobs that we have, jobs that our parents have, and jobs that others have that help us! We also took some time to talk about the importance of keeping our teeth healthy. We worked on the letter Cc and the number 8.

Thursday:
We spent all of Thursday on our teeth.

Adventures with Pokey. I'm not sure where my Gumby picture went...sorry!  I will take a new one with that sweet kiddo next week

Making a toothbrush! 

These kiddos have become glue stick masters!

Minds-in-Motion  room! 

Practicing some good teeth brushing!

C is for crab...

non-standard units of measurement. We used buttons, bears, and cubes to measure the length of a tooth brush. We worked on 1:1 counting and talked about how our measurement with different items varied. 

Healthy vs. Treats...

 Friday:
Community helpers...

Our community helper belt. We got to pick 3 jobs we would like to do when we are older...

Our special visitor Dr. Emily. She is veterinarian. 

A big helper...

We talked about the importance of the traffic lights. Then the kiddos got to make one of their own. They had to tear paper and fill in the circles. Paper tearing is great for strengthening their little fingers. The smaller they tear the stronger their hands are. 

Future dentists...

These always make me smile...Our jobs as parents. My son came home saying my job was to talk. I do love to talk!

A detective came to visit us! How cool. He talked about following rules and even showed us his vest and handcuffs!

What an exciting week! Next week is all about love...Valentine's Day!

3-2-1 Blast off! Space Week

Exploring space was super fun! The kiddos learned about the planets, the sun, moon, stars, and even tried some "space" ice cream. We worked on the letter Ss and the number 7.

Thursday:

We've got the whole Earth in our hands. These cuties are making our planet. 

Solar System sensory bin

Finally catching some fresh air!

Our sweet new buddy!

making constellations with our first letter of our name.

Will we like the way space ice cream tastes?

We compared and contrasted space ice cream to Earth ice cream...it was different but most gave it 2 thumb up!

 Friday:

My sweet astronauts

These are our new name sheets to help us learn how to write our names. Please keep these in their bags. We will find time at school to use them as well! 

Making the sun...

Their fine motor skill...gluing on these small squares. Such a task to pick up little pieces of paper like this!

Number counting

Checking out some cool space pictures.

Working on the big dipper...The big dipper has 7 stars...

Sequencing rockets from biggest to smallest

I know you will thank me later for this moon dough! :)
For sure messy but they LOVE it!

I sent some home just so they could show you!

What a great week! We have community helpers next week...and some very special visitors!!