Robins - December 5th - 9th

It's been an exciting week in the Robins class. We started a introduced the letter "E", started a countdown to Christmas, and had a blast at family night. Here are some of the other highlights from this week...

Making our own books...

Holiday Tic-Tac-Toe...

Colors & counting with tag bags...

Playing with tools....great for fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination...

This week we talked about how letters come together to make words and how words put together make sentences. Each child picked a scroll that contained either a letter, word, or sentence and then sorted them into buckets.

Beading is always a big hit in the Robins' class...

The Robins get comfy for story time...

Family night was a blast! We showed off some of the things we've been learning, played in the gym, created marshmallow sculptures, snacked on cookies, and enjoyed spending time with one another. Thank you families!

Family night peaked our interest in our notebooks. The children have been enjoying going through their notebooks and looking at the samples of their work with great pride...

Music is everywhere! Here we are practicing for family night...

Caroling...we went form class to class singing and ringing "Jingle Bells" ...

Miss Julie's son, Wesley, came to play the violin for us. The kids loved it!

Until next time,
Miss Crystal & Miss Julie

Robins - November 28th-December 2nd

Better late than never...here are the highlights from the Robins class from the week of Nov. 28- Dec. 2nd. Enjoy!

The letter of the week was "D." As with all our letters, we practiced recognition, signing, writing, and the sound this letter makes.

We introduced magnetic sets that resemble our wood pieces. The kids had fun practicing making the letter "D" with the magnets. The smiley face reminds us that we always start our letters at the top.

Some dolls found their way into the classroom and this made for some really interesting dramatic play...

More fun with letters...

Fun with numbers...

Water play....

Building with blocks and other things...its always great to see the ways the Robins combine different materials within their creations...

Playing with piggy banks...picking up coins and putting them in the slot gives our hand muscles a workout.

We talked a lot this week about color...

We voted on which color frosting we should have at family night. Purple & turquoise won!

We practiced counting and sorting my color at circle time...

We used pipettes to experiment with mixing watercolors...

Things got really interesting when the children added straws to the mix. the used them to blow the wet paint around the plates and to extend their pipettes.

One morning we made blue & yellow playdough...

In the afternoon we read the book, "Little Blue, Little Yellow" and used our playdough to see what happened when you mix these two colors together.

Afterwards, and throughout the rest of the week, we used the play dough to practice forming letters...

Mat Man Shapes

            Mat Man visited the Robin's again
the other day.  He taught the children
that he has, two arms, two legs, two feet, two hands, two ears, two eyes, one nose and one
mouth.   But, we can change his body to a blue rectangle body.

 Or even a red diamond body.

 A green triangle body can be fun to add.

How about giving Mat Man a square checker board body?

Twinkle, twinkle littler star, Mat Man now has a yellow star.

We always have fun giving Mat Man different shapes for his body, but our favorite is

a pink heart, because we love working with Mat Man.

until next time, Miss Julie and Miss Crystal

Chickadee Rainy Day Fun

 Awhile back the  Chickadees had fun with contact paper, some pipe cleaners, pom poms, a few bow tie noodles and straws.  The contact paper became a canvas for a collage that could be redone again and again.  This is a great activity to do at home too--tape the contact paper on your table (sticky side up) and add whatever you have around.  Enjoy!

A funny man

Making a caterpillar

A Sunshine

Chickadees-Sing and Learn

During our mornings together we spend quite a bit of time singing and listening to music.  It makes little tasks like lining up much more fun and is another helpful piece in preparing children for reading success.   The Itsy Bitsy Spider, the ABC song, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,  We are the Dinosaurs, and Octopus are some of the kids' favorites.  Ask them to sing one to you, if they haven't already.  

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Itsy Bitsy Spider hands

Working on our books so we can read them together and with our families.

Reading our books together

 We are the Dinosaurs

We stop and take a rest. . . 

We stop and eat our food. . . .

...Cause we are the DINOSAURS---ROAR!!!!

Where Do You Start Your Letters?

Where do you start your letters?
  
   On this day the kiddos in the Robin's
class learned that you start your letters
at the top. 









The kiddo's worked on starting at the top of the letter D,d using Cheerios's.

After using the Cheerios's to trace the letters, the kiddo's got to eat them.  This is always a fun way to learn how to trace letters.

How do you make the letter D?  You start at the top and use
one wooden piece that is a straight edge and one that is in the shape of a half circle. 

Remember that the curve goes to the
right of the straight edge.

Where do you start your letters?  At the top!
Great job everyone.         Miss Julie and Miss Crystal