February 4 - 8

This week our theme was magical math. We worked on measuring, sorting by size, identifying small, medium, and large, and charted our growth.

We are certainly not ready for regular rulers, so we made our own! To go with our Valentine's Day theme next week, we used rows of hearts to measure various items. Children used rows of hearts to measure how many hearts long an item was. Morning kids worked on counting and afternoon kids drew a picture of each thing they measured then wrote the number of hearts long it was next to it. The product was basically a paper with scribbles and a few random numbers, but hey, it really got the kids thinking about what it means to measure something.

We introduced the new center in our room. It is the Math and Science Center. Because we've been talking so much about measuring, I have placed some measuring tools in a basket there along with a small and large pom pom sort. This center will change throughout the rest of the year to incorporate science and math themes.

We've been singing some counting games during the day as well. A simple one goes like this:

One, two, three, four, five
One, two, three, four, five
One, two, three, four, five
I can count to five!

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten
I can count to ten!

We also learned to sing:
1,2 buckle my shoe
3, 4 shut the door
5, 6 pick up sticks
7, 8 lay them straight
9, 10 a big fat hen!

The P.M class really enjoyed our Reward Day which was a camp out in our classroom! We voted for the next reward day which will be a costume party! It will take us a month or two to fill up our jar, but I'll keep you posted on the progress. Enjoy the pictures!