Mrs. Rachel's Three's Class: Friends and Family Week!

We had a great second week in our class! We are learning each other's names and quickly becoming friends! Mrs. Katie and I have had so much fun watching everyone interact and get to know one another.

This week, we celebrated that God gave us families and friends. We read a variety of books about friends and family, including What Mommies Do Best, What Daddies Do Best, It's Okay to Be Different, and Rainbow Fish. Everyone did so well listening and responding to what we read!

As we discussed being a good friend, we talked a lot about sharing. We learned about the importance of sharing from the Rainbow Fish and created our own rainbow fish (while practicing how to use dot markers). We also discussed the parable of the rich man's barns. In this parable, the farmer decided to build bigger barns to store up extra food for himself instead of sharing what he had with others. We used this as a lesson to remind us to always share what we have with others. We also talked about working together with our friends by making a friendship cake this week! We all mixed a different color into our cake batter and then marveled at our rainbow cake! We talked about how we can do so much more when we work together.

To go along with letter F this week, we enjoyed creating fancy feathery fans, building the letter F out of pompoms, and fingerprinting the letter F. We even created our own friendship frames! We also focused on the number 2 and learning the circle shape... In our centers, we made circles with buttons and worked together to do shape sorting. We are so smart! We also enjoyed stringing beads, playing with play dough, and building in our centers!

We also had fun learning about each other's families with the family collages... Thank you so much for helping your sweet little ones create these! They are now hanging up in our room!

Finally, we got introduced to our "box of rhythm" this week. We will be learning rhythm and many other skills through our poems and songs this year. Everyone loved shaking our maracas and tapping our rhythm sticks with our poem/song of the week, "Skidamarink". This poem is the first poem in your child's poetry folder that went home in their bag!

This week, see if your child can...

1. Tell you our Bible verse. (You can practice together!)
2. Make a letter F and a letter M out of objects in your house or yard.
3. Count 2 different items.
4. Find five circles in your house.
5. Tell you two ways to be a good friend!