Week 4

September 19th

This week the children have been introduced to the letters /i/ and /u/. They learned that these letters are vowels and your mouth needs to be open to say these sounds. The sight words, 'like' and 'green' were introduced and practiced.

Our story of the week was Chicka,Chicka, Boom Boom! We used this story to discuss the difference between upper and lowercase letters. After the lesson, the children went on a Letter Hunt. The children needed to find a letter, decide if it was an uppercase or lowercase letter, and mark it on their paper. The children also completed a project to go along with the story.

September 17th was Constitution Day. Mrs. Drotleff, our librarian, read a story called, We The People, which gives a simple explanation of the Constitution. As a class, we reviewed our rules and all agreed that they are necessary for a safe and productive class. To make it official, everyone signed the document. And finally, we made the adorable red, white and blue hats. 

In science, we have been discussing the 5 senses. Today our lesson was on the sense of taste and everyone tried something salty, sweet, sour and bitter. After tasting the baking chocolate, they decided that 'bitter' was not a flavor they enjoyed and that chocolate tastes much better with sugar! 

In math we continue to compare numbers, print numbers and work with the concepts of greater than, lesser than, equal and one more. They are all working hard! :)

Scroll down for a few pictures from this week.

Have a good weekend!

You may have seen papers like this come home and wondered what they are. This center activity is called, Pokey Pins. It helps strengthen fine motor skills and reviews letters and sounds.

                             We play many games throughout the day. This one reinforces number writing.

                                                 Here we are on Constitution day! Sooo cute!!

                                                                    This is our Letter Hunt game.

                                        Take a look at our cute Chicka Chicka Boom Boom projects.