WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY 9-25-13

FRIENDLY FROG~

Morgan was the Friendly Frog today!

 MORNING MESSAGE~

Jean-Luc circles the word "hello" in the morning message.

 SELF-PORTRAIT~

Today the children drew a self-portrait.  We will have them do this activity again at the end of the school year as one way to document their growth and progress.

 

 

 

 

FREE CHOICE LEARNING~

At the Alphabet Station, children use a Venn Diagram to sort the letters in 2 classmates' names, determining which letters the two names have in common and which letters are different.

 

 

 

 

 

  

Painting with marbles!

 

 Retelling the story of The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly in the Book Nook.

 

 Noah and Carsyn enjoying books in the Book Nook.

 Sophia and Griffin playing Snail's Pace Race at Games Galore.

 Emily and Willa building in the Construction Zone.

 Morgan exercising her fine motor and counting skills.

  

EDIBLE MAT MAN~

During Free Choice time today, Ms. Schroeder worked with small groups of children at the Snack Station.  Using edible "shapes", each child built his/her own "mat man".  The best part was eating it!

 

 

 FLEECE~

To follow up with yesterday's discussion about fleece, August brought in some fleece from sheep on his family's farm.  He shared photos of the sheep with us and real fleece!  August also shared a sheep-skin rug.  Thank you, August, for sharing your expertise!!!

 STORY~

Ms. Schroeder shared one of her favorite Mo Willem stories, Amanda And Her Alligator.

TERRIFIC TUESDAY 9-24-13

FRIENDLY FROG~

Walker was the Friendly Frog today!

 

 NURSERY RHYME~

Throughout the school year, we will use several nursery rhymes to develop and strengthen emerging reading skills (rhyming, sight word knowledge, etc.).  Today we introduced our first nursery rhyme, "Mary Had A Little Lamb".  We identified the rhyming words, defined "fleece", discussed why the lamb followed Mary, and shared why it was against the rules to have a lamb in school.

 Willa shared her fleece jacket with everyone when we were defining/explaining fleece.

 In the Book Nook, children were shown book copies of "Mary Had A Little Lamb". 

 Also in the Book Nook, we put the nursery rhyme together using sentence strips and picture cards.  The children also learned that under each word is a green dot (to help them with 1-to-1 correspondence when reading) and at each period is a red dot which means the sentence stops (and you pause before reading on).  Children can put together the nursery rhyme on their own during Free Choice time.

FREE CHOICE LEARNING~

We introduced new activities today at some of the stations. 

 

 Kyndal matches upper and lower case letters.

 Children can form letters in the playdough using Legos.

 Children can experience using flubber at the Discovery Station.

 

August called this a "masterpiece"!

 Carsyn used her math and fine motor skills to put the correct number of beads on to the pipe cleaners.

 We decorated our letter "F" with frog faces!!!!

 The game pictured below is now available at Games Galore.  This game provides children with practice in taking turns.

 The children have become very creative when building with the "pool noodles" in the Construction Zone.

 At the Alphabet Station, Kyndal uses tweezers to choose an upper case letter bead and then match it to the lower case letter on a mat.