January and February 2020

What a fun couple of months we have had!!! We started it off with our arctic unit and learning all about penguins and polar bears. We learned about how good daddy emperor penguins are to take care of the egg and baby while mom is off swimming in the ocean for fish. They got to practice taking care of their own little egg and waddling like a penguin. They loved feeding their penguins with the correct number of fish here during snack time. 

Sensory painting. We put marbles in a bag with black paint and a white piece of paper cut in the shape of a penguin body. They got to cover it all with paint and we had a "sleepover" to let the art dry before adding a face, wings and feet.

Arctic Animal centers: Penguins and icebergs in the ocean, Penguin shape find, Letter matching, and felt number and math with penguins.

Polar Bear Dotting

Puff Paint to make a polar bear face

Lots of work on popcorn books and high frequency words

Polar Bear shape feeding

Polar bears playing in snow

Snowflake shapes with Q tips

Arctic Yoga: Acting out all the animals we saw on our adventure to the Arctic

All about Reptiles and Amphibian day! We read A Color of My Own by Eric Carle and then made our own chameleon.

Centers: Number hop with frogs

Letter and number matching with alligators and turtles

Color matching snakes

Making snakes

Feeding the chameleon

Chinese New Year: Making Chinese lanterns with stamps and red (the lucky color) paper

 Eating with chopsticks

Mail Day: We made letters to send to families

 Lots of fun with centers. Mailing letters into matching shape mailboxes

 Post card sorting by numbers

 Letter Sounds before putting in the mailbox

 Making the letters of our names and putting them in envelopes

The Three Little Pig Day: Acting out the story

Building houses and trying to blow them down

Learning all about real pigs and painting them in mud paint

 Going to Scera Theater with our families for an amazing play

The Mitten Day

Retelling the story and making some pictures to tell our families

 Number snowball fight

Letter matching

Puzzles

Sensory play in colored rice

Matching colors with conversation hearts

 Patterns

Number and one to one counting

 Making adorable cards for our Valentines at home

 Friendship Yoga day and heart healthy exercises

 Dental Health day: Learning how to take care of our teeth. Centers were sorting upper and lowercase letters

 Teeth counting

 cleaning off the cavity letters

 Making cavities

 Washing teeth with toothbrushes

5 Senses: We loved painting with Kool aid and Jello. The room smelled amazing!

 Art with something to go with each sense

 Celebrating Dr. Suess' birthday a little early this week as it is on March 2nd. Lots of fun with rhyming words!