I hope everyone had a relaxing and rejuvinating long weekend! Over the past week, we began our unit on the 5 senses. We learned about our sense of sight, and our sense of touch this week.
On Tuesday, we began learing about our sense of sight. The students took a nature walk, and using their seeing sense practiced identifying and tallying items they viewed in nature. We came back together as a group and discussed which items they saw the most and least of during their walk. We continued to practice AB patterns using the different colors of eyes people can have, and we learned about how everyone has different eyesight and vision. Afterwards, we painted colorful images using various paints and forks as painting tools. We also celebrated our friend Karina Pina, who turned four years old on Monday, Sept. 7th! Happy Birthday Karina!
On Wednesday, the students brainstormed items they can see in the world. Then we worked on illustrating and labeling 4 pictures of items we can see. Students are using phoenemic awareness to 'stretch out' letter sounds and sound them out to assist in writing out words during labeling. Afterwards, we painted colorful images using straws to blow and experiment with paint and air on our papers. We also did some sorting and graphing of all of our 5 senses items during math, and practiced building numbers using pipe cleaners.
On Thursday, we began learning about our sense of touch. The students brainstormed items they can feel in the world using their skin and hands. Then we worked on illustrating and labeling 4 pictures of items we can feel. Again, the students practiced using phoenemic awareness to 'stretch out' letter sounds and sound them out to assist in writing out words during labeling. Afterwards, we painted pictures by feeling and using rocks to paint by rolling them and stamping them around in the paint, and used our hands to build tall towers and creations. We also practiced using our sense of touch to play mystery bags; being blindfolded and using descriptive language to help our friends identify and guess whats in the bag.
On Friday, we played 'touch ballons,' where we felt different items (corn kernals, rocks, salt, flour, etc.) hidden inside balloons. We then brainstormed and guessed what would be inside each ballon before we did the touching item reveals! We also practiced independantly playing mystery bags with blindfolds and using descriptive language. Then we made some water and chalk art drawings, and practiced feeling the mushy chalk and wet water. In the afternoon we did show and tell time with items brought from home.
Check out images below of our students working, learning, and playing this week!
Victoria and Ceanna painting with rocks using their touching sense!
Kelsie and Karina painting with rocks using their touching sense!
Ethan, Jonathan, and Bjorn building towers using their touching sense!
Isaiah working on his 5 senses minibook writing.
Alexa playing at the water table, where we mixed different colors of glitter to observe using our seeing sense!
Kelsie using her touching sense to paint with rocks!
Important Notes/Dates:
Picture Retakes: Wed. Sept. 16th
Notify me if you wish your child to be send for picture retakes! The front office has notified me that the retake forms were attached to the original photos your child took. Use those to order the retakes. If you cannot locate the retake form, I will send your child to retake photos anyways, and they will give me the necessary forms to have them ordered.
Friday, September 18th: Weekly Show and Tell
Look for a note coming home in your child's homework folder about this weekly show and tell time!
Field Trip to Children's Museum Tuesday, September 29th:
Signed field trip forms and $7 per child and $7 per chaperone are due by Wed. 9/23 for the upcomng trip. Please turn in to me, or drop in my red bin by the front door.
Thursday, September 24th: Nursing Student Lesson in Class
The nursing students that have been visiting the last few weeks will be teaching a lesson on 9/24 to the children about sun saftey and care; they will be sending home a sheet about the tips for sun saftey that will be covered in class, so you can review at home with your child.
Upcoming Parent-Teacher Conferences: Sept. 30th -Oct. 2nd
I will be sending out a google doc next week for families to sign up for parent teacher conferences during this time. If you have any issues using the google doc, please contact me and I can reserve the day/time desired for you!
Fall Break:
School will be on Fall break for students from Wed. Sept.30th-Mon. Oct 12th. We resume class on Tues. Oct. 13th.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Best,
Ms. Crowl
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