On Tuesday we started adding newspaper to Nellie our Alphabet Friend, used number blocks and cookie cutters in kinetic sand, explored number puzzles, had the option of making handprints to work on our Coping Skill of counting while tracing our fingers, found the letters of our names cut out of newspapers to work on spelling and recognizing our names in both upper and lower case. We have a preschooler and a teacher who are the Golden Letter friends: Nessa and Grandpa Norm! Mr Micah (Ms Kristin’s son and former preschool volunteer) was back in the afternoon class today (you’ll see him in pictures below).
N is for New: We have a new toy thanks to Grandma Bonnie’s fundraiser: a car garage with ramps and a car elevator for all our small cars. We’re testing out which cars go the fastest!
This week we are counting fingers while slowly tracing them. This brings us gently into the present moment and provides sensory input from feeling and auditory input by counting aloud.
Our Clean Up song this week is A Neighborhood is a Friendly Place by Ms Ella Jenkins. In this song Ms Ella tells a little story and the children are learning to stop and freeze when the music stops…you can try it at home!
A few conversation starters:
Morning class: What color were the donuts today? White! Just like the snow outside and like in our story, Nessa brought us powdered donuts, cheese sticks and apple sauce. Thank you, Golden Letter friend, Nessa!
Afternoon class: What kind of dip did we have? Nutella! Cade also brought us apple slices and Nilla wafers. Thank you, Cade! Some friends tried broccoli for the first time by dipping it in Nutella! Hooray!
All week we will be offering fresh broccoli “trees” at snack time to remind us that newspaper and all paper originally came from trees. Fun fact: According to the latest data from the American Forest & Paper Association, around 65-69% of paper used in the United States in 2023 is made from recycled materials, meaning roughly 31-35% of paper is still produced from trees.
Who helped deliver the newspapers in our story today?
During Story Time Ms Kristin showed a newspaper and then we read Curious George: Windy Delivery. In the morning class we had the fun surprise of finding a friend’s family in the newspaper!
Curious George helped his friend Bill. They had trouble because of the windy snowy weather...that is something we could relate to! This book is from our local library and has activities you can do at home. Here’s a reminder of our Wintery Weather All School Graph from last week:
Did you blow anything off the table today?
We used our breath like wind as an extension of our Story Time book. At Circle Time, we predicted which items could move with only our breath and then tested our hypotheses. We went back to the table with straws and made our own wind to see which we could move with only our breath. Some things were easier than others.
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