Small group:
During small group this week, we did an adding and subtracting activity. Children used bears and small animals. Activity included blocks to use as boats and fabric as water. Children counted animals getting on board and off the boat. i.e. 2 zebras and 2 dolphins, 2 dolphins went swimming we had 2 zebras. We used elephants, zebras, dolphins and penguins. Then they used bears and counted them and placed them in plastic cups. They also counted while playing hopscotch.
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Large group:
One of our class favorites is Old Mcdonald had a farm. As they followed images from the book, the children pretended to be animals, danced around and made animal sounds one by one and in groups. We also placed spiders on webs and danced to Halloween songs.
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Project:
Our letter of the week is A and they glued apples and brainstormed some of the following words: airplane, artist, alligator, anteater. We read "The Adventures of Abby Alligator"
Our Halloween decorations this week included gluing buttons on bats.
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On Thursday and Friday we do our small group and circle time entirely in Spanish. They colored/drew with markers using the primary colors; yellow, red and blue. They learned new art vocabulary in both English and Spanish. Be sure to ask them about it.