Mrs. Carson's Sunny Sea Friends Blog Spot: Happy Week!

Loving, Learning and Sharing

Celebrating fun in learning, accomplishments and sharing with Grandparents and Special Friend's Day!

Building with blocks and building relationships old and new.

The children loved being able to share important aspects of their Junior Kindergarten days with some of their very favorite people.

Budding Authors!

The children, all month long, shared the book Rocket Writes A Story, by Tad Hills with their families. In our classroom they created a word tree to hang words they wanted to know how to spell upon the branches. Collectively, these words became important parts to original stories created by the kids. As you can see, they illustrated them too! Awesome!

As part of our literacy and author study, the children have been learning about building a story with a beginning, middle and end. They have learned to pay attention to the characters, setting, and lesson in a story (if there is one), too. Last week, the children compared stories by Leo Lionni. The stories we read were fables with animals as the main characters and all had great lessons to learn. The fables we shared were: Matthew's Dream, It's Mine, The Green-tailed Mouse and Frederick. This week, we will learn from Inch By Inch. The author spotlight this week will be on Tomie DePaola.

The children enjoy new and exciting ways of learning lessons in our curriculum. Being four or five year olds they love mysteries and gadgets as well. It was fun to learn math using both! Intrigued by boxes in different shapes and sizes, the children estimated how many objects might be in a box by shaking it, listening, and feeling the weight. Numeral cards helped the children to get an idea of the number of items in the box. After guessing how many and matching a card based on their guess to each box, the children opened them and counted to see if their guess was correct. This brought on a lot of conversation, delighted squeals and fun in learning!