Things we learned/did this week:
- Learned how to be a good listener (Eyes are watching, ears are listening, voices quiet, bodies calm)
- Read "Rainbow Fish" and learned how sharing makes you a good friend and makes everyone happy
- Introduced vocabulary- "author" and "illustrator"
- Learned about the new Story Symbol (globe) for identifying the setting in the story
- Learned about the importance of trying our hardest after reading and discussing "The Little Engine That Could"
- Counted objects using one-to-one correspondence and made sets of five. (Students each found a set five objects around the room and linked together five snap cubes)
- Read our class book "Friend of Mine" with student names and pictures
- Shared family photos (We are still sharing, so send one in with your child if you have not already)
Small Groups this week:
- At School Collage- Students selected pictures of items found at school, glued them onto a piece of paper, and the teacher dictated the descriptions of the items in their words.
- Sorting Blocks- Students learned how to clean up the Blocks Center by sorting the blocks into bins by the shape of the blocks.
- "Cookie's Week"- Students were read the story "Cookie's Week" and identified the main character (star of the story) and the setting (globe) using story symbols.
- Dramatic Play Clean-Up- Students learned how to use the labels in the Dramatic Play Center to correctly put away the materials in this center during clean-up time.