Goodbye November!
As we bid a fond farewell to November we look enthusiastically forward to the Holiday Season! Hellooooooo December!
It was a busy week last week, wrapping up the November calendar after a wonderful Thanksgiving break. The children, as always, were busy exploring their world and learning from their investigations.
Using contact paper sticky side up, the children added snippets of colorful tissue paper, glitter, and other craft materials to make a stained glass window effect for our "holiday" windows.
Language-Rich Environment!
Learning to read involves many different learning skills that come together to make a wonderful reader. Rhyming, telling stories based upon picture clues, making predictions, dictating stories to go along with drawings etc. and much, much more are fun and relevant skills for beginning reading. In Junior Kindergarten we practice these skills every day!
Reading and Writing around the room! This friend found color words in the art center and wrote them. The great thing is that she wrote them in the correct corresponding color....without prompt!
Play dough is not only a fantastically fun art medium, fine motor muscle builder and creativity creator, it's great for making words too!
Practice forming letters correctly helps children to write and experiment with words confidently.
A collaborative holiday mural in the Exploratorium promotes conversation and creativity.
Can you find objects that begin with P like Pool or C like Cake?
Treasure Hunting for Numbers!
The children were thrilled to be able to dig through many different sensory bins filled with beans, corns, and packaging peanuts, all while searching for sets of numbers! Laughter erupted as the children pulled out one number after another. While working in pairs the children then had to place their numbers in numerical order from smallest to largest. While placing them in order some children realized that there were numbers still "hiding" and they had to go back and dig some more :)
Fine Motor Fun!!!
The children delighted in discovering the leaves on the trees outside were beginning to change colors and fall to the ground. We decided to take this one last Fantastic Fall opportunity to do a little leaf exploration. It was a beautiful fine motor lacing activity to collect and string colorful leaves to hang just outside our classrooms.
Obstacle Course!
There were no obstacles getting in the way of building our gross motor skills last Friday!
Triking works the legs, arms and mind inspiring agility and control.
The hippity hops get our bouncy friends bouncing!
Walk the line, up and across the bench using balance.
The obstacle course included climbing, walking on bucket stilts, scooting, hippity hopping, riding a tricycle along a designated track, stepping through tire hoops, and walking the "tight rope" for balance. The kids had a blast building their gross motor muscles and skills!
This week is all about GINGERBREAD!
To kick off the holiday season we will read many versions of the popular story, The Gingerbread Man.
On Thursday the children will make their very own gingerbread man cookies. Tee hee....sure hope they won't run away! Betcha they will though! Stay tuned!
Dates to Remember:
*The holiday gift drive is from now until December 14. Please see the list online. Thank you for your generosity!
*We will sing for our neighbors at Winston Park on December 12.
*The Holiday Sing is on December 20 at 8:30 am in the Janet Root Theatre. Our exploring style holiday party will follow in the ECC. There is noon dismissal that day.
Have a wonderful holiday season filled with joy, hope, peace and love!
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