It has been a fantastic first
week back with my cuties! After an absolutely wonderful maternity leave, these
kiddos have been so much fun to reconnect with! Hugs have been plentiful! Clouds and color have led our discussions and
learning this week.
Our other explorations and
activities included…
*creating a “Mark Making”
area. This area has many writing
instruments, different kinds of paper, envelopes, stickers, scissors, letters,
and ideas for writing. It has been the
most popular place in our classroom, with most of our cuties writing letters to
moms and dads and friends, as well as drawing/writing stories! There was practicing
of our own names and our friends’ names, our letters, numbers, and sounds, and
we even used some of our high frequency words (To, Mom, Dad, Love.) It was so
much fun that our kiddos didn’t even realize they were WRITING!
*investigating clouds (see the
next blog post for more details-I will have that up in the next couple of days.) We went out to the field, lay down on the
grass and looked up at the sky and clouds.
(I used to love doing this as a child, and wanted these guys to
experience it.) We then of course had to
run the field!
*the cloud investigations
continued with making pretend snow into some of the shapes we saw in the sky,
and using shaving cream to recreate the beauty we saw!
*I brought in some new Elephant
and Piggy books and our kiddos were completely captivated---many of the
students can read some of the books we have had in the classroom, as we have
read them a lot of times together. Feel
free to take one of these from the library and have your child help you read it—you
will be amazed at what they know.
*we played number games to
review our numbers, especially our “tricky teen” numbers and then played number
Bingo
*we read one of my favorite
books Black Cat and White Cat, and then recreated some of the pages using black
and write paper. The cuties had some
amazing ideas.
REMINDERS/IMPORTANT DATES
Friday, March 11th: Field Trip
to Elephant and Piggie. Details and permission forms to come soon.
Thursday, March 17th and Friday, March 18th: PARENT-TEACHER
CONFERENCES. Our students do not come to
the conferences and do not have school these two days.
March 19th to March 27th: SPRING BREAK: NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS
*Please return the red library bag and books on Monday.
Have a great weekend! Lynsey J
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