A short week! January 21-23

Our week may have been short but our time in school was full this week!
Since we weren't able to go outside we got to do some extra Art Projects, including making maracas out of toilet paper rolls, wax paper and rice (AM); snowy scenes with blue paint and salt (PM), and our own colorful mittens after reading Jan Brett's book "The Mitten" (both classes).

We learned a "Days of the Week" song at circle-time this week that some of the PM kids may remember from last year. It goes like this (to the tune of "The Adams Family Theme Song"):

DAYS OF THE WEEK

Days of the week (snap, snap or clap, clap)-repeat 5 times-
There's Sunday and there's Monday
There's Tuesday and there's Wednesday
There's Thursday and there's Friday
And then there's Saturday
Days of the Week (snap/clap, snap/clap) -repeat 5 times-

We'll be singing this some more this week to really get the hang of it!

Group time this week was spent exploring wooden curves and lines blocks as part of our "Handwriting without Tears" program. We talked about the difference between a curve and a line, as well as big and little, and kids were shown upper-case letters to make with their blocks (C, O, L, D, and P). Then they got to "freestyle" and play around to make whatever letters they wanted to!

For Math time we played a counting game with tiny cookies. Kids practiced looking at numbers, counting out cookies and were given basic number problems. "If I have 5 cookies and take away 1 then how many do I have left?"

We'll be learning more about animals in winter this coming week and will make our own Animals in Winter book as a class! See you all Monday!

-Miss Kate and Miss Amanda