Mrs. Rachel's Three's Class: The Very Hungry Caterpillar and More!

We are learning so much in our class! I am amazed at how much progress we have already made!

This week was Eric Carle week at LAP! We had fun reading a variety of books written and illustrated by this author, including The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Mixed-Up Chameleon, Little Cloud, and Brown Bear, Brown Bear. To go along with these books, we enjoyed singing, creating caterpillars from egg cartons, making letter C clouds, and retelling Brown Bear Brown Bear with our paper bag bears! Everyone is doing a great job listening to our books and carefully creating their artwork.

We also continued to enjoy our table centers this week (specifically designed to work on fine motor skills and mathematics skills). Tracing was one of our skills of focus this week. Feel free to continue this important pre-writing skill at home with any materials of your choice! We practiced helping a hungry caterpillar "crawl" to his food by tracing different lines. We also worked on making patterns by creating caterpillars out of colorful pouch caps/pipe cleaners as well as making patterns out of bear counters.

To go along with The Very Hungry Caterpillar, we had fun stomping on our "caterpillar" made from colored circles in the green room. Jumping or stomping from one color to another or one number to another is a great way to combine these skills with gross motor activity. We also worked on colors to go along with reading The Mixed Up Chameleon! We enjoyed our first time water color painting as well as matching colors with felt bugs and flowers.

To work on the letter C, our circle time charts were a caterpillar and a chameleon! We practiced dotting the letter C with dot markers and making a cotton ball letter C cloud!

Our Bible focus this week was on the first two days of creation! We practiced our verse for September: "God saw everything He had made, and it was very good!" (Genesis 1:31) We will be practicing the song "All Good" each day of September. It is a fun song that you may enjoy singing at home! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6GHjqks4pY)

This week, see if your child can...

1. Tell you what God made on the first two days of creations. (Maybe read this section of Genesis 1 together!)
2. Practice our Bible verse for September.
3. Draw the letters M, F, C, and P in sand, salt, shaving cream, etc.
4. Sing "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" with you (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaDDsT9IAWc) using their brown bear paper bag.
5. Hop and count to 10.