Our letter of focus for the week was the letter W...W is for winter! We enjoyed cutting and building our very own penguins (which can be found in the hall). We also had lots of fun doing penguin yoga, reading about polar bears, building our own igloos with marshmallows, and feeding number fish to the giant penguin who came to visit our room! We even got to learn about penguin feathers and how they repel water. Our science experiment of the week was testing out how blubber helps animals stay warm in the Arctic. While Crisco might not be blubber, it showed us how blubber can block the cold of ice water!
We worked on a variety of skills this week! What a smart bunch we are! Cutting with scissors independently has been a focus for January. We also continued to work on spelling and writing our names, as well as shape identification/sorting. We have begun to practice counting from 10 to 20. The teen numbers can sure be a little tricky, but we will conquer them! Our one-to-one correspondence has improved immensely, and our ability to identify shapes continues to improve.
Our Bible focus of the week was on Jesus healing the paralytic that was brought to him on a mat by his friends. How amazing this was! We were reminded that Jesus really can do ANYTHING!
Here are some things to ask your child this week! Can you....
1. Identify the letter W and its sound?
2. Write the numbers 6 and 7 in the air?
3. Build your name? Write your name? (We meant to send home their tracing cards for at home practice but forgot... We will get them home next week!)
4. Tell me three animals who live in the Arctic?
5. Identify a circle, triangle, square, and circle?
January tracing sample... So much improvement!
Our grip and letter writing is getting so much better!
Cutting the penguin hearts made for good scissor practice!
We sure loved drawing and writing inside our "bear cave" (tent)!
We loved experimenting with our light table.
"Feeding" fish to our penguin by counting out the number we rolled
We loved making marshmallow snow structures!
We kept these penguins as the January
coloring sample
Shape sorting with our penguin was a bit challenging!
We love table trading!
Free play is oh so valuable! Building problem solving skills, creativity,
and social skills...Just to name a few reasons!
We got in some great exercise in the green room this week!
We also went on a letter hunt!
Trying our hand in the blubber!
One of our bears escaped from the bear cave! We had to go on a bear hunt
to find him of course!
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