First of all, THANK YOU SO MUCH for the donations to Operation Christmas Child! We were able to fill two boxes that will be sent out next week! What a blessing! Thank you for your generosity.
Our focus this week was on how to keep our bodies healthy and strong. We really packed a lot into a few days. Some of our topics of discussion were healthy foods to eat, how to make our bones and muscles strong, exercise, using our five senses, and how to stay free of germs. I think we could have spent much longer on this topic!
One our fun activities this week was outlining our bodies and then putting on facial features and decorating. We let the students do this independently, so hopefully you smiled when you saw your child's creative work! (We had a few left in the classroom, so if you didn't get home with yours, I have it to send home next week.) Everyone also independently created their bodies out of different kind of noodles! This was great fine motor work.
To work on the letter F, we also used carrots and celery to dot paint the letter! What a fun way to talk about how vegetables are healthy for our bodies! We also had Freddy Frog visit our room and had fun singing our song "Five Green and Speckled Frogs" as our interactive poem. We will add these to poetry folders next week!
To work on the letter F, we also used carrots and celery to dot paint the letter! What a fun way to talk about how vegetables are healthy for our bodies! We also had Freddy Frog visit our room and had fun singing our song "Five Green and Speckled Frogs" as our interactive poem. We will add these to poetry folders next week!
One of our best learning moments this week was sorting food into which foods were healthy and which were unhealthy. Many had a look of astonishment when we told them that ice cream had to go in the "bad for our bodies" bucket! :) Some of our other activities included building sandwiches and tacos with felt food, counting with fruit, and doing number exercises. We talked about different ways that we can exercise and did a fun sorting activity of what is an is not exercise. We even learned about exercise with the book Bearobics and Get Up and Go! as well as by having a dance party in our own room!
Our science experiment this week was a glitter germ experiment. We put glitter paint (aka "germs") on everyone's hands and let them look at how many germs can be stuck on our hands. We learned a new "Wash Your Hands" song and discussed how washing our hands is so important (because just like the glitter, germs spread on everything we touch).
We continue to do our table trading at the end of the day to work on fine motor skills, math skills, and spatial skills... Everyone is doing great! Many of our friends are beginning to identify the numbers 1-5 with ease. The more you can count and write numbers with your child, the better! Our stations this week included building Mr. Potato Heads, working on lacing by "suturing" a cut, making shapes out of "bones" (Q-tips), and tracing.
Our Bible focus (besides talking about how God made our bodies) was on being thankful for the friends that God gives us. We talked about Jonathan and David and how they set a good example of friendship. We even learned a fun new song for the month: "Thank You God"! Here it is if you want to sing and dance to it at home! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyaSgIpVALc
Our Bible focus (besides talking about how God made our bodies) was on being thankful for the friends that God gives us. We talked about Jonathan and David and how they set a good example of friendship. We even learned a fun new song for the month: "Thank You God"! Here it is if you want to sing and dance to it at home! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyaSgIpVALc
See if your child can:
- What sound the letter F makes and what the letter looks like.
- What foods make our bodies strong.
- 2 things we can do to keep our bodies healthy.
- Our Bible story about Jonathan and David.
- Build a tower out of ten cans of vegetables!
Look at these good tracers!
Bone shapes!
This girl is amazing at cutting!
Felt food!
Building is so important!
Sorting healthy and unhealthy food is tricky!
Veggie dotting
We are so creative!
Sensory bin play is always a hit.
We had fun with these food letter magnets.
Fun with Minds in Motion!
Our birthday girl!
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