Happy New Year! We enjoyed our Arctic Unit and learning all about Polar Bears and Penguins. We did centers along with the book Polar Bear, Polar Bear what do You Hear? We measured different pictures using our bear counters, made polar bear puff paint pictures, took care of eggs just like a daddy penguin does while the mom is off catching food, fish counted for snack time, made a letter P Penguin and lots of penguin centers (Sensory tubs, felt boards, memory games, one to one correspondence, etc)
Practiced finding sight words
Putting "butter" on our popcorn words in our new books to take home.
Number practice and stamping numbers onto our Letter N
Feeding our monster Shark fishes with numbers, many went in ascending order.
Lots of practice with teen numbers
Popsicle game of one to one correspondence
Martin Luther King Day! We loved learning about taking care of others. We did some fun object lessons with brown egg/white egg and presents that were wrapped differently but had the exact same thing inside to talk about how everyone has a heart and is the same inside (a loving person). We talked about different ways they can change the world and they made a picture to go along with it. We played a lot of friendship games this day.
Nursery Rhymes Star Light Star Bright we learned a little about our solar system and made star wands to use with our wishing poem. Hickory Dickory Dock we made their own clocks and practiced making times on our clocks.
Arctic Animal yoga
We had a great time at our field trip to Cabela's
making silly shape faces
Shape memory games
Sensory shape game using their hands to feel for the correct shape in the bag without looking.
Heart Health, we learned a lot about taking good care of our heart and making it a stronger muscle to help pump blood to and from our body.
H is for Healthy Hearts
Lots of Birthdays to celebrate too!
Where are the love monsters hiding? Can you find them? They loved this game.
They got to hide their own love monsters afterwards during centers
Fine motor skills and sorting
Playdo fun with hearts and baking supplies
Number Find
Valentine Party ( Who is my valentine game, heart healthy exercising, decorating cookies, spin the bottle(Tell your friend something nice and give them a Hershey kiss), made cards for our families, passed out valentines)
Made some turtle bread for our Tortoise and the Hare day before getting ready for our play to Scera theater. This bread is so yummy! Recipe is found here:
Turtle Bread Recipe
Number race game, who will win? The Tortoise or the Hare?
Dental Health day, painting with toothbrushes to get those teeth sparkly clean
Drawing cavities by number on our tooth and then erasing (brushing) them clean
Sorting foods that are good and bad for our teeth
Happy Birthday Dr. Suess! Yum our very own green eggs.
Coloring dice game
Ten Apples up on Top, How tall are we?
Sorting One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
What a fun month we had! We learned even more and had a great time doing it with our friends. We are excited to keep going and growing each day.
