This past week the kids were very busy and working hard as they learned about the individual people who help to compose a family. Below are some of the things we focused on, as well as some pictures of us working!
The kids were very focused on sorting and classifying the people who make up a family; we sorted and grouped boys vs. girls and parents vs. kids according to their attributes. We also practiced learning how to identify sizes, small, medium, and large, and then practiced sorting and categorizing figures of moms, dads, and our homes by sizes using grids and charts. We learned how to count using 1:1 correspondance using chips and dice to recognize numbers and their amounts by playing 'feed the baby.'
We practiced building our names from letter cards, and also practiced writing and recognizing the letters that form our first names. We built some people from our family and ourselves out of corks, and also had a ton of fun playing with squishy balls, parachutes and basketballs at the gym during heat advisory days. We focused a lot of story retelling (beginning, middle, end, and characters) and identifying the parts of a book (front and back covers, title, author, illustrator), and will continue to do so throughout the semester. We are continuing to work daily on alphabet letter and sound recognition, and counting/recognizing numbers to 20 and their amounts.
This week we will be focusing on pets during literacy, math and social studies time as family as we conclude our unit on Family.
Important Dates:
Friday, August 21st 3-3:30pm:
Sharing of family posters with the class. Parents are welcome to come at this time to assist their child in sharing theirn posters and describing the members in their family. Teachers will assist children in sharing if some parents are unable to come this day.
Monday, August 24th:
Community Helper Unit Begins for 2 weeks- contact Ms. Crowl if you would like to come in and speak with the class about what kind of job/way you help the community! We would love to hear all about your job for about 20-30 minutes. We will be learning about community helpers such as teachers, doctors, nurses, firefighters, policemen, veterinarians, construction workers, etc.
Friday, August 28th: Weekly Show and Tell Begins
Look for a note coming home in your child's homework folder about weekly show and tell time!
Have a wonderful week!
Best,
Ms. Crowl
Bjorn playing 'feed the baby' using counting dice and chips.
Bjorn playing with soccer balls in the gym.
Some of our cork family members by Alex Morales, Ethan, Victoria and Bjorn.
Bjorn and Gemma playing 'feed the baby' with their chips and counting dice.
Jonathan playing 'feed the baby' with chips and counting dice.
Isaiah and Alex Morales playing 'feed the baby' with chips and counting dice.
Keslie playing with our 3 year old friends in the gym!
Gemma enjoying playing with the squishy balls at the gym.
Alex E. excited that he just made a shot into the basket!
Ethan showing off how he can sort and categorize parents vs. kids.
Isaiah showing me how he sorted all of the dad images by size!
Ceanna showing me how she sorted moms by size!
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