During our greeting as children arrive, they know depending on the day that there is a particular activity they do. This week was drawing straight lines and cutting straight lines with scissors. This activity helps with many skills related to writing, but our focus was strengthening fine more skills, working on pencil grip and improving hand-eye coordination.
Our small group activity also involved practicing hand eye coordination with the basket toss game.
For large group, we incorporated some dramatic play with our big book "Frogs" – kids pretended to be frogs, jumped, etc. then went from egg, to tadpole, to frog. They love interpreting the books with their bodies.
Our letter of the week is "P" – kids glued pears to "P", read "The Pig’s Picnic", brainstormed entire page of words that start with the letter "P" like pig, park, penguin, pizza, etc.
Most Thursdays and Fridays we have the opportunity for parents/guardians to come in during circle time to read the class a story. They usually read one of their child’s favorite books or choose one from the classroom. Marnie, Jack’s mom, came to read – kids loved it! She read a Thomas the Train Christmas themed book and "My Woodland Wish", which she gave as a gift for the kids to enjoy at school.
On Friday, we had a wonderful field trip with the Nature Consortium. The children had a fantastic time planting trees and naming them after one another. They also went on a nature walk and learned about "natural" and "unnatural" things in the forest.
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