We finished Goldilocks and the Three Bears on Tuesday and started The Three Little Pigs! We have also started learning the songs for our play (date still TBA). We are visiting several stations this week and next. One station is called "muddy pigs." We get to finger paint little piggies! The interesting thing is, we learned that pigs actually prefer to be clean not dirty! The other station is acting and retelling. We get to wear a "costume" and act out the Three Little Pigs. The next station we visit is a place where we get to make a house out of straw, sticks and bricks. The last station is a pig fact book. We are learning the difference between a fact and an opinion. That's a difficult concept but they are doing really well!
Monday: Our school guidance counselor came to teach us about being kind to each other. She said that each of us has an imaginary bucket over our head. When we say something kind to someone, we fill their bucket. When we say something mean, we dip their bucket and their bucket spills. If you hear your child talking about bucket filing and bucket dipping, this is what they mean! We all strive to be bucket fillers :)
Math:
We continued to revisit our old math games this week but also learned about other math activities we can do at school and at home! On Tuesday we made a counting book. The kids were able to pick their own numbers from 1-20. They were to write that number on a page in their book and then place the appropriate amount of stickers underneath that book. They were also encouraged to write the word of the number on their page as well. We are still reinforcing the concept that numbers can be represented in different ways but they all mean the same thing. This is a neat activity that you can do at home! Make your own number book and try gluing down different objects or drawing pictures to represent that number.
Today we pretended that we were all employees at Target and we needed to take inventory. It was so neat! Each child was given a bag of items that they were to count and record. The recording part was the hardest! We were reinforcing counting using our one to one correspondence skill as well as counting in a slow, steady sequenced pace. The kids ended up counting 5 inventory bags. They loved it! It was a neat way to squeeze in math and writing while simoultaneously working on our kindergarten skills.
Literacy:
We continued to work on word sorts! We are getting into the habit of quietly reading for a long period of time while Mrs. Schultz and Mrs. Skaggs call small groups to focus on more individualized instructional needs. We worked on the "short a" sound this week. We worked on words that ended in -at and -an. The first day we cut our word endings, pictures and words and talked about the short a sound. The next day we sorted our words and glued them into our notebooks! The next day we came up with our own words and pictures that have the short a sound. We also discovered that if we can spell the word "at" then we can also spell the words "bat, cat, mat, hat and pat." All we do is change the beginning sound and keep the same ending. Another neat discovery!
We have a lot coming up in the next month or so make sure you are checking the blog!
Important!! We need the following items for next week:
1. 4 fly swatters (can be found at most dollar stores)
2. 20 SMALL styrofoam cups
3. One bag of dirt
4. One bag of sand
5. One bag of grass seed
6. One box of toothpicks
**If you would like to purchase any of these items for next week, please hit "reply all" to the blog email I just sent and let us know you will be buying that item so that we do not get duplicates of things that are not necessary. Thank you SO much!
I also wanted to say thank you again, to everyone who continues to volunteer! It makes our classroom run smoother. The kids also enjoy showing off their mommies and daddies :) Just make sure you have turned in all of your paperwork and watched the volunteer video before volunteering in order to keep everyone safe!
**Below is a music video of the finger play we have been learning this week. We sing it a little bit differently but I also enjoy this version. Check it out!
Hugs,
Emily Schultz
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